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PAG 2 FOUH Tha OREGON STATT3!,JAN, Calcn, Cre-o Tcr-fsy :!smb-, r.-'rrrry 1?, 1CS1 Jy lei. 'Wo Favor Sways Ua; No Fear Shall Avn From First Statesman. March 28, 1831 Tim STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chakixs A, SrnAcvr, Sheldon F. Sackett, PkMuA-. Cuakus A. SrsAcca - Editor-Manajtr Sheldon F. Sackxtt ! - ; - Managing Editor , Member of the Associated Press ' t The Amoctated Preea ta excroalvely entitled to the aee for pabltca tloa of all nwa dlp tehee credited to tt or not otherwise credited in tola paper. ; I ;. v I Pacific Coast Advertising Representative!: Arthur. W. Stypea, Tn-e., Portlaad. Security Bid. ;- J Ban Franeiaco, Sharon Bide: Ixa Anselee, W. Pnc Blau Eastern Advertisinc" Representatives: Ford-Parsona-Stecher.Inf., j New fork, 171 Madison At.: Chicago.' 4 N. Michigan Ave. : . , sTatrrsrf at t4 Votloffiee at Salem, Orepn, as SecondCUm Matter. PublUhed retry vtoming except Monday. Busuuis -office, tlS 8. Commercial StrttL , , -: . -. '. , . , 1-. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i . . i UI1 Subscription Rates. In Advance. Wlthfn qreeon : Dany and Sunday. 1 Mo. 60 cecta; S Ma. SI.: Mo. 11.15 : 1 year $4.00. Slee wlre i cents per Mo. or SS.Sfl for 1 year ia advaace. - 4 i - Br City Carrier B eenti a taonth: IS.S0 a year to advance. Per Copy I cents. Ou tralna and Newi Stand S centa : CriDDliner CfENATOR Upton has introduced a bill limiting the length Oof trains. The patent object of the bill Is to give more fnha tn railwav trainmen. We doubt very much. if the em ployes, themselves will formally endorse this proposed leg- uiauon. ine nuiroaus are uac men only when their services are in demand. , Unlike many "industries they cannot stop and start when: they please; they have to run freight and rjassensrers trains on regular schedules even if the traffic it has been the past year. In a business depression the rau roads suffer just like agriculture and commerce. It is a poor method of ending: the depression by hamstringing- one, of the great businesses oi.tne country rauway wiuiapviu tion. . -'.j..-v L 1 ::'';"' '' . ' Long- trains have been forced "on the roads by the high cost of labor. With mounting labor costs i and with station ary or declining revenues the roads were forced to increase efficiency and lengthen trains if they were to survive. The result has been that fewer imen were employed. The total wage bill crept up, but fewer men shared it. In spite of (the test they could do, some large railway systems were forced Into bankruntcv since the war the Milwaukee, the-Alton, the Seaboard , Air Line. If railway men are out of employ ment, and many of them are, the cause hes in the general business depression and in the policies of the railway unions themselves in forcing wage increases and maintaining them at the peak of the 1920 inflation. This has resulted in rates which drive business to competing means of transportation and railroads .to replacement, of high-priced labor by me chanical improvements. j 1 - : I We realize fully the situation that obtains among rail way employees. They are a fine group of men who haye de voted much of their lives to railroad service. Now they find themselves jwith scarit employment or bumped clear off the ixxard. But we fail to see from the standpoint of simple bonesty where it is proper to legislate them into jobs! in the wayrthe Upton bill proposes. Wouldn't the railway men te better, off if they lowered the wage scales with a cor responding reduction in railway rates? This would restore traffic which the roads have lost, enabling them to com pete, with trucks and stagesj Then with reviving business more train crews would be called -out, and the jobs would be restored. '. - ' ' ' '- I ' - j ' ! The union policy of never taking a wage cut sometimes works to the lasting injury of the onion itself witness the coal miners. It may be urged; that the roads are not suffer ing at all. But they are, very severely, and the cut has af fected dividends. The Northwestern reduced its dividend ; the Wabash has suspended it preferred dividend; the Rock Island and M-K-T put off dividend declarations till they might see how business held up this yeaf ; the Great North ern and Northern Pacific kept their regular dividends only by dipping into the surplus of the Burlington which, they own jointly. Business will revive for- the railroads as for mT -m . . a e W Al A. t TJ tne xarms ana tne lactones; 1932 there will be an abundance of work for all. - - 'Turn on the Rainbow" fHHERE have been so many announcements that fbusi JL ness had turned the corner", since the nose-dive of Oct. ober, 1929, that commentators are chary of making such a remark after the dire experiences of the last half of 1330. With-H0 pretense to clairvoyant powers; we "nevertheless make -bold to declare that business is definitely on the mend. The ebb of the tide has ceased and the flow is com ing! in. The business situation still has many sore spots anf trouble zones, but the evidence does indicate a genuine strengthening which gives promise of leading to business revival.. , : " ; '" '"r -f -:Vy --S"'- True, business statistics as yet reflect only mild gains from the lows of December; jand compared with figures for a year ago the sign still has to be minus4 But the trend is what is significant. What was feared as a winter of terrible unemployment and destitution is being passed with its pre dicted calamities unrealized. There is distress, but the sharp edge of depression has been blunted successfully. .1. Locally a much better feeling is manifest. The winter has been mild, permitting continuous outdoor work. Already work on farms is beginning,1 This with other activities of spring will give employment to those now idle. There is a bright spot in the lumber business. While production is still at slow bell' the orders are running greatly in excess of pro duction and have for some weeks. Mill inventories are high, but yard inventories must be greatly reduced, and the drain on stocks will ultimately have. its effect. ! j' . - November and December of 1930 will probably go down as the bottom of the pit for the depression period. Then business was bad. Indexes indicate that December was the poorest month since 1921 and perhaps -longer. The January revival in the securities markets was chilled sharply by: the threat of issuance of billions of bonds for cash compensation to veterans but a compromise seems to be in sight on this issue which will not be very; damaging to general business A growing feeling of optimism, a conviction that prices - have declined as far as they are going to among most com modities, and the normal impulse that always comes with spring activities are encouraging business to come out of its shelL As "Business Week' remarked in its last issue: I "Better turn on the rainbow, call of the flood, lower the gang-plank, and let the -birds and beasts of business out for a frisk on the green, grass. It always has to stop raining sometime. . i v The Grange O EN ATE bill 168 is a revision of No.! C4 the "granire O utilities district bill" drafted by Dr. A. Slaughter Drawn by a chiropractor the "people's utility districts" will need high-powered lawyers rather i than engineers. It is verbose, complicated and obscure. Its I very- complication will act I as something of a, brake on the expected power-rush of com munities. " - . - . . i : ; . J The bill permits the issuance of bonds up to. ten per -cent of the value of the property in the district; and gives the directors full power of taxation. There 4s no reliance on "utility certificates" to deliver cheap power "without cost to the- taxpayer." . The old dependable machiaery I of general obligation bonds and property taxes are called in to carry tha load. . - f , i - n. -i'r-i ' : - -VThila the till leaves many, points uncertalni and. omits . matters which will dout!crs-requ!ra future legislation, it probably be esactsJ aboat-ia its present forraCa long Ithe Railroads iuuusuw --"" w..- offered is. cut off a third as ana we may predict mai,oy ' Power Bill. Immunity and Bodily Health ! tJy Ternoa A. Dooflas, 1LD. llarloa County Dept. of Ilealta Tha defenses of tna body. Ilka those, of a treat nation, most aot be dependent npoa a single mech anism alone for protection. A na tion cannot depend solely oa an army, or aarr. or a healthy ett- uenrr for defense. An factor mast be co-ordinated. When one falls down, another most ha de pended upon. A certain type of Inrader mast ha met with a appropriate defense mechanism. So it Is with the body, Many types of defense mechanisms are provided - by nature. There are the akin and Its appendages, tha secretions of glands of tha month and 'intestines, - certain glands themselves, good nam' jn, as well as various chemical " sub stances in the blood and aernm which stand as a last defensive barrier against Invasion. 1 1n some Instances the body has to learn by experience as it were what i the "hold4" or -method of some i particular invaders. Alter there has been one invasion, and it : has been - saccessf ullr orer- come, that particular disease can never again as a rale secare a. foothold. This Is called Immunity and is doe to certain aabstancee which, are developed at tha time of tha invasion. The body for ever afterwards due to. this Mer- perience is able to- handle that particular disease. There are ex ceptions such as pneumonia and eoiaa. r . ; ; Fortunately it is not always necessary for tha body to -go through a dangerous experience in; order to learn the "hold" of soma j particular - bacteria which makes every attempt to com pletely overcome the- body. The body can be . taught the "hold.' There 'are now provided, as ev eryone . knows, methods of . pro ducing r an artificial Immunity against disease. We might say mat tne Douy, by racclnatlon and toxin i anti-toxin is acauainted with tha methods of attack of smallpox and diphtheria without being required to actually exner- ience j a disease which ' itself might result disastrously. , This immunity is not developed in any other way except by actu ally experiencing the disease or by "learning" it through vacci nation, or Inoculation. Big mus cles and' perfect nutrition do not protect against such dlseasea as smallpox, measles, cholera, ty phoid fever, plasm e. It is true that perfect health -does help prevent tuberculosis and pneu monia,: but we 'all knew of - tha splendid athletes who have suc cumbed to tuberculosis, pneu monia or. smallpox due to not be ing ''acquainted" with tha lue tics of these diseases while an other person -who may not be In such vigorous health has been' able to ward them -off due to -Artificial or ' acquired Immunity. In fact it seems that soma persons whom ;- every one recognises as 1 chronic Invalids, aeem to have a tenacity for Ufa which is hard to explain except that due to long grappling with disease they base learned tha "hold." How much better it is to have rigorous health as well as to be immune also-against communicable dis ease invaders. . : , : The point Is that a person in perfect health is not safe against all! invaders unless he also has that other defense mechanism called immunity. A person, Uv lng under perfect conditions, and in perfect health , may develop smallpox If ' exposed, while : the man in tha trenches, worn out, under fed and poorly housed. Is absolutely safe against smallpox due to a successful vaccination. Investigators hare not - yet been able to learn how to arti ficially immunize against all dis eases, work Is being done on measles, -tuberculosis; pneumon ia and others. In the meantime, it Is wise to take advantage of what Is already known about preventing smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid and others. Yesterdays Of Old Oregon Town Talks front The States 1 man Our Fathers Bead 1 lebroary 1, 100O ; Considerable uneasiness has prevailed throughout the Labish territory In this county over the proposed electric line -to Portland this- being occasioned by closing down of the P. J. Petzel aaw mill and that of Mr. Clemens, where the company had been obtaining ties.: There was rumor that the company was unable to meet pay ment on supplies, however this prof ed liaise..'; f - The Salem water company is now" digging ditch and lying pipe in the south part of town, pre paratory to supplying water to residents there. ; Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Sunnyslde .Mu tual Telephone company. Princi pal offices will be in alera. A. L. West, L. M. Croser and H. 8. Pol sal! are the incorporations. Cap ital stock is 11500 in shares of S20 each. PROGRAM RCITEDTTrJKm . AUMSVILLE, Feb. S. A va ried and highly entertaining pao. gram will be given at the school house February 12 by Mrs. Walt er Xj. Johnson, impersonator and reader, l This program is spon sored by the P. T. A. a?J.tne People adopted the grange power "amendment, en abhng! legislation was to be expected. This Slaughter bill could stand a lot of slaughtering to make it more workable, but on the .whole it. covers the purpose fairly well, andJts very defects may prove blessings in disguise. . j It contains the Meier-endorsed provision for taxation of plants built under it, which will be a hard pill to swallow for the free power fer nothin boys As between communi ties it is a very fair provision and we hope it is not deleted. , No city will operate under this act unless: it wants Jto pelade a lot of rural territory, for cities can operate much better nnder their own charter powers unless they are tip to tne hilt In debt already. Like many great ref orrns, this may prove just; more :Lttcr ia tha Janbook3. . l Perhaaa what- ZIra.. Howard -in PAHi,nii.w, .i.nt'. aardfcataaodianu ,m T - ' A PERILOUS PERCH T ; : 4 f.,,-, --Vj 'l.,jawi.KMrtMmSileattatat..eieMaa ' " ; 'HrVULea.. "Murder at Tha murder of Baroness von Wiese at Eagle's Nest stirred tha town or Kiageltffe. Walter Vance, 1 Assistant Chief -of-Pollce, Is in charge of tha 'Investigation aided hy his fiancee. "Blm" Mar tin, young newspaper reporter. A' note, written by tha Baroness, is found near tha body.' Blm recalls seeing, the Baroness slip the but- er a. piece of paper, which ha denies. Suspicion is cast on Mary Frost, whose husband Ted had flirted with tha Baroness, Mary's shawl is found wrapped around tha body. Mary claims aha was unable to locate tha shawl and left with Ted. It develops- aha returned later for tha ahawL Complications arise when it la earned that Laura Allan had borrowed the -shawl. Emily Har dy's maid heard tha Baroness quarrel with her maid. Blm won ders about tha wounds on tha head and arm of tha Baroness' maid. The Jewels of tha Baron ess have been stolen. Laura says she saw Mary entering tha gar den --wearing, her shawl. Blm finds a atone from a .man's ring on' the Summer house path. Laura denies wearing tha shawl. Blm learns from the- gardener that Bunny Balrd was entertain ing a lady In his bungalow.; Bob Trent, gassed war veteran, tells the police the Baroness insulted his wife. Mrs. Trent Is fear- stricken. Balrd ref usea to re veal tha name of the lady who visited him. - Blm learns that Mary Frost returned home alone around midnight. ! CHAPTER XVm. At the Station.- Hour-: Blm found! Reynolds and old . Jer Fury going; over tha. evidence Walter had gathered la his little note book. i , ... ":. : ' .. Walter would read his notes, explaining them carefully and at length to his chief and then Mr. Fury would not sagely and wrin kle his eyes and shift the long, black! cigar he always smoked nnllghted. ne eat with his chair tipped against tha wall and his hands crossed . on his stomach and Blm aaw at once that he waa completely at sea. : When .Walter had closed the little t book. Mr. Fury got up lnmbejringly, still nodding;, - and pulled his hat down oyer the front of his head. . "You've, done good work, my boy. i he . aald. "Har-rumn. Well, let me know. . .,1 . :: At Sea -' "Ton wish me to handle the investigation. Chief T" . "For the present,: my boy For the present, Har-rump. Keep: me in touch. - , - Tha Chief lumbered out of the Station i House . and Walter flashed a look of triumph at Bim before ne and lie. oids ex changed : grins. v MScared to death," Reynolds observed. "First time-in twenty years a ; murder'a atared him In the face and he doesn't know what to do with. it. .This la your chance, son, even the commis sioners won't stand tor him after! this.- ! . . ' ' ' ' Walter was looking at Blm; her face was : scarlet but. she kept .her eyes down,, knowing: very : well that Reynolds, had guessed at the situation that he understood bow eager Walter .,. ;., ... ,, ZJl 4 Eagle's Nest" had been for his chanca and ex actly why. She resented the fact that everyone seemed bent- upon marrying her off to Walter. Of course this was- Walter's big opportunity, of course ha would J make tha most oC it - coyer I himself with ' glory and she would help him if aha) could. So often they had talked togeth er about such a possibility: ao very well she comprehended what it meant to him. " !: : Her Chance ' : But It was her chanca as wall. Hera was tha story she had been waiting . f or ; tha one f which would lift tha Banner out; of ob scurity and put it on tha map as tha best written, best edited. most progressiva newspaper out. side the metropolis. She, her self, meant to do soma editor ials, also she would , handle tha account of the murder at Eagle's Nest all herself with her; name at the4 top of the column,' "By Bhima Hia Martin", beneath headlines la husky block type. And then if old Tom couldn't or wouldn't aeewhat it did tor tha Banner-- well, perhaps there would be an offer for her serv ices from one of tha New York newspapers. Not . that aha wished to Jeave Klngcllffe, not that -it wouldn't break her heart to lesre but when a girl had de cided on a career she must allow no considerations of sentiment to stand in the way. All of this flashed through her mind In the little silence which followed Chief Fury's departure and so her voice was a bit brusk as sua told what she had learned from Charlie Perrpne about Mary Frosh.' ; 3 Walter said nothing, but Rey nolds I grunted, wagging ; his chins. "Figured we'd heari more of -the Frost woman. She's all tied up in , this Ilka a! aore thumb". Blm protested at that "Mary's the best woman in tha world. Mr. Reynolds. She tried to cov er up things about Ted, was alt Ha is not very nice to her, you see,, and she . doea : that all the time. -She's aa patient ' as aha can bei and meek you'd j nerer believe how meek she is." Look out for thai meek ones when they do step out' ra- marked the Sheriff.' "Ohlyou're hard-boiled !1 Blm was greatly offended. Of course, Mary VFrest had not toJd tha truth that Is, -not all of the truth but no -one ' could rblame' her. - Still'it waa foolish to- try to aide the facts about Ted at a umallke this. .. "Supposing I see Mart and liare a talk with her," she of fered. ."She might be 1 mora frank, with me." r They considered the- possibil ity, Reynolds objecting i mildly inew omciai questionings are particular things,! Miss "Mm; Tou have two sets of eyes, one ta watch what you say so's not to up wnat you're thlnkinjr and tha other to watch what the jot her fellow's thinking so's not to botiar; too much with what Wb,. privilege of handUng or sell- aaye." r r.-- I "But this wouldn't be official. I'll just gossip with Mary 4 little and then Iil aay 1 know she went home alone. Please let me, Mr. Reynolds.- Iil be careful." . They gave her permission fi nally and aha went . away. But before she could' return . to Plne Hill there was her duty as ! a re porter to be taken care of Ac cordingly aha crossed Main street and slipped through the gate be- rbind the Reformed Church and into the ahaby aid building on tha little side street where the Banner was published. ; There she found old Tom In hia shirt sleeves, feet ott his desk, smoking tthe smelliest; pipe in al the world and gracing: with troubled -ayes at -the .white-washed brick on -the wall behind tha presses. - -1 dont Ilka It, :Elmmr" was liis-.axeetlag. , - "Crlma It .Cina- t litre gazdea spat of. tha ILnd- . son. -Thirty years -l'va put tha By. WINIFRED VAN DUZER Banner to bed nUht after night with, nothing worse In. Its col umns than a brawl time the Har rison boys got - frisky and tried tha wreck the filling station ov er at Novel City. I dunno, ,BJm my; Beema Ilka we'd better play this down. Kind of ease it along as j an accident !',.:. - j;.'- "Doc Martin, you H do, nothing of jth aort- Here's a perfectly gorgeous murder in thigh society it's pretty high, society, f any way and you alt there talking about making aa accident out of it! vOf all the old sillies!" j "Ah. now Bimmy " ; ! 'Don't you aay another single word!? Or yes do -say it-4-onIy oa jpaper. iCrlma In .r'ngclif fa- serpent In the garden ' that'll do fine. A. good long editorial. double column : measure. Giro it to 'em, Dad. And now III do my own atuff." I ' i He regarded ha apprehensively but aald no more. For a ; long tlma tha only sounds. In the Ban ner: office were, tha scratch of old; Tom's pencil and the click of Blm 'a typewriter' and finally thai typewriter was left without a rival when old. Tom, muttering something; about seeing man. snatched up his hat and made off down the street, . , J Blm; began her report on what had happened at Eagle's Nest with an account , of the missing Jewels. She meant to make it a story of . a Tobbery- which j had ended- up In murder. But. aa the words - clicked oft beneath her fingers and shets of copy ; began to pile on the desk, sh realized that she was writing a tale of mystery instead a tale of a mys terious murder in which robbery was! merely an Incident, j i Despite the . 1 1 that every body connected with' the affair had! accepted the robbery motive. tacitly at least, she now -knew that all tha while there had lurked f 1 in I her subconsciousness the j certainty that the Baroness Lvon Wiese had not been slain be cause .of her Jewels. There had been another motive for i the killing: something ' much ! more subtle, much mora intriguing to a girl reporter. Bun left off writing and sat there scowling, at her typewrit er, trying to figure it out. And all at once she was aware that a pair of laugning aars; eyes were surveying her as a tali; re markably attractive!: young man leaned i across the desk. : j . (To be continued) 0 ? r . jie oarety Valve - ! ' i Letters from Statesman Readers To "The Editor: 1 ' In regard to the Mil before our ! legislature compelling tne rta1r if a nnv 1100 YAarffor ing i oleomargarine, in 1 other words a butter substitute, I nave this to say: - ' t ' - H ' I I have , been ln-,the grocery business about alx 'mntha. In the- beginning I waa determined not to sell a- butter substitute. thinking I would help the farm- a - sWa. aftse IimI(iis , fliafr sVa a oil i?u aaavva aaaaaevaaas wfAOV jaaA public demanded it, I changed my mind and decided to handle what; tha people demanded. ; i Many use a better substitute' not only for butter but also for shortening In cake baking. Soma even; like it better tor tha latter than r tha substitute oils tor shortening-. A S100 license would prohibit tha small dealers from handling1 a. ; hutter aubstitnte. thereby throwing the entire but ter substitute -business to the larger dealers and especially to the chain atorea. "This, to my miad. would certainly ba unfair and-unJuat to-tha. ciesaxloyad at laev-T-resent ttatar and la favor of tha ahaia.tors. This- bl II passed would car- HP! 1 BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. DENDIUCIiS' . galea's first store: b (Continuing from Sunday:) Bancroft's History of Oregon, first volume, beginning on psge C2t, has In a note tha following: "Thomas Cox was by birth a virriniinr. Whan, but a smaii mm ha removed with, his par- enu to Ross county, Ohio. In 1111 ha married Martha Cox, whn thAnrh of tha same name waa not a relative. He removed with his family of three children and their mother to Bartholomew county, where ha built tha first grist and carding mills - In that dUm tt afterwards removed, to tha Wabash river country, and there also erected a flour- and carding- mill at tha mouth of the Shawnee rlrer, - - "He 'also manufactured guna nA novdr and carried on a mail Mavamithtna business. In mi mikda another remove; this time to Illinois, where ha settled In Wul county, and iaia out the town of Winchester, the nam of which was aiierwarn )miMj ta Wttmlnzton (and .t. and where be again erected milla for flooring and carding. and opened a general mercnan iiiM business. (Wilmington Is now a city of about 1500 people. Is soma-IS mUes from Jollet, and has a newspaper.) ; , W "a "During, the period of land speculation and wildcat' . banks. Cox resisted the Rambling- spirit, and -managed to save his prop erty, while others were rninea. In. 1146 he jnada preparations for amicrratinr to Oregon, In com pany with his married son. Jo seph, aad two .sons-in-iaw, cit Brown and Peter Poiiey. . "Ellaa Brown, father of J. Henry Brown (tha Oregon his torian), died -on the way;- ana Mr. Cox In company with Damas cus Brown, - and before related, brought the family through to Salem, where he set up a store, with goods .ha had brought across the plains and mountains to Oregon. "Ha purchased tha land claim If Walter Helm and placed upon It Mr, Policy. -When gold was discovered in California, his son William went to tha mines, and being successful, purchased i large stock of ood in. San Fran cisco, and returned-with them to Salem, where, his father, retired from the mercantile business, leaving it In tha hands of Wil Ham (Cox) and Mr. Turner Crump. . V V "Thomas Cox then engaged In farming, raising choice fruits from seeds which he Imported in 184T. 'Cox's coldencllng has been called the finest yello peach on tha coast. . (Hon Ralph C. Oeer In his pioneer day ad dress of June 15. 1879, said this peach was 'the boss peach of Cal ifornia, or at least was In 1870.') Tha fruit business proved remun erative. Cox's first apples selling at SI a bushel, and peaches at $10 and fit. Mr. Cox died at Sa lem October 3. 18lz, having al ways possessed tha esteem of those who knew him.' - Tha neat notation of Bancroft reads: "Joseph Cox, son of Thorns Cox, was bora in Ohio in IS 11, and removed with his parents to Indiana, where. In 183S, ha married, and two years afterward went to Illinois, set tling at Wilmington, whence he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, and remained' there till 1847, when ha Joined the emigration to Oregon. Ha was a member of the talnly ba a . severe blow and hardship on many , a household and to those thr can not afford to pay the price for butter, and if ' passed the price of butter would certainly raise to a pro hibitive price. It Is not alto gether the laboring clasa - that use butter substitute but many. many farmers sell their cream and milk and buy butter sub stitute. I am "one for a aquare deal, H. L. CLARK. SALEM, Fab. a. (To the Edi tor.) I am a taxpayer in this state and am naturally Interested la losses sustained by the siate. X bare been reading In your paper about a lass In the department handling the flax industry for tha state. I am an accountant by pro fession myself and am well aware of tha various ways a profit or loss may be shown by tha differ ent methods of marshaling figures into classification under the head ings of assets or liabilities accord ing- to individual opinion as to what constitute an asset or a loss, therefore I am hot quick to Jump to conclusions. But the thing that causes ma to ask you to publish this questionnaire is the fact that I am not able to understand why it la that tha state should lose so heavily In the same industry dur ing tha same period of time that a private corporation .right here In our own city should make a re markable gain? And moreover, I am told that tha policies of both were practically under the direc tion of the same personnel. X read about the gain shown by tha one and tha loss by tha other In your paper recently. I would Just Ilka to Jcnow why, that'a all. Yours truly, i HERBERT HARD. Stopped almost Instantly with one awaSow o L SSe Capital Drus Store GmcnsTEns-nnis if I C if '''' k.iA.eiTB) , , if few. - tm. t mw mm t WtlCiaiu- .iT,-ii..'4 j conTentloa that framed tha pres ent state constitution. Without being a public speaker, ha wield ed considerable influence. Of an upright i nature and practical Judgment, his opinions were, gen erally accepted as sound. 'A good man In any community, Oregon was tha gainer by his becoming a citizen, ' wrote a pioneer-after his death. Ha died ia 1870. 'Thomas H. Cox, born. In Willmlngton, Ills., was a son of Joseph Cox. He died at Salem,- of paralysis of tha heart, September 25, 1878." ! . V . -W I As noted above, Tfcomas Cox manufactured guns and powder in Ohio. Judge T. C. Shaw, In his story of tha Cayusa war, reprint ed In this column some time ao, said: "Mr. Thomas Cox of .Sa lem had been a manufacturer of gunpowder in the east, so ht brought a goodly supply of am munition, with him when he crossed the plains In 1847. When the Cayuise war broke out (in tha winter of 1847-48), ha gave free ly of bis powder and caps, to help equip tha militia for its camraign against tha Indians." It fa evident that Thomas Cox had not more than finished - his store in what become ! Salem, and completed tha arranging of his stock of goods In it from his covered wag ons, when this necessity arose. And his help was timely, for the peopla with an Indian war on their hands, and all their famlliea threatened with massacre, wera poor In money and not well sup plied with " tha necessity equip ment aad supplies for fighting tha savages. Surely such a man deserves a memorial, however be lated the recognition may now seem. 1 . Ona may find la soma publish ed reminiscences written by Sar ah J. (Walden) Cummins, Touch ed. Wash.,: about tha Benjamin Walden family (tha wife of Ben jamin Walden having been Sarah J. Lemmon), immigrants of 1845 from Missouri la one of tha cov- - ,.fevu u.ui, vi til a i j car, the following statement: "Tha Walden j and Lemmon families wen from Oregon City, in tha spring of 1818, np tha WUIam etta to the Methodist mission at Salem. Mrs. Walden said Salem at that time boasted of ona store, kept byiPriadls and Crump and the Mission Institute!. The latter developed Into Willamette uni versity ia arter years." j -j V '. i,That g-ood lady must have got ten her dates and facts mixed. It was ho doubt to tha Methodist mission 10 miles below Salem that tha Walden and Lemmon famUIeal came ia 1841, and it must hare been In 1847, or later, that they found tha store In what became Salem, "kept by Prlndla and Crump." Tha store was kept by Turner Crump and William Cox-after Thomas Cox retired to hia farm. It was tha same store. Perhaps a Mr. Priadia. nr a m.m m n mr w unn .vs. a. ... . . ter of the wall known pioneer i-ringie family, worked la it. The Pringles arrived here ChHtm day, 1848. ! i " 1 . Hon. Raloh o. iriw .,14 Thomas Cox started the first store in (what berams) Relm and Mr Geer cama across tha ri I SI f aa si f Vi a a . a m . - year tna (jox xam- ily came, 1847. and was one of tha best Informed mn tha early pioneers. ; v , ! Tha Cox store was the rir.K general store started in wh.f came Salem, and it was located at what Is now the northeast cor f "I Ferrr and Commercial fall of 184T. la a new building1 erected l after hia , .-ni It ,,Cox sociated with his son William; with the store room on tha first floor and the famii residence on tha second flfwtv nf course, tt was a (wooden building. (Continued tomorrow.) llt..l.l m.. ers. 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