The CnDGO? STATESMAN, S -! r r . 7 - - ' - y 7 ' r-''', r l
"No Favor Sways UsilNo Fear Shall Aw"
Prom First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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The Tariff and Depression .
THE Statesman has previously pointed out the impedi
ment which high tariffs are toward Industry revival.
- They are in fact a definite contributinar caus of the exisy
ins depression. A lowering of i tariff barriers would start in
movement goods already produced and machinery f or fur
nwjnun in onatain rwed demand. Germany eats
Bwar bread while American and Argentine fanners are im
poverished as their wheat banks high in elevators in this
country. Germany has an extremely high tariff to protect
''home industry and home agriculture." Italy; has followed
a similar misguided policy of stimulating artificially home
growing of wheat; likewise France. ; i '
inese countries nave aaeuawc jusvum.wv,
United States has raised virtual embargoes against much
of the production of these countries. We believe the Amer
ican farmer would be far better off with lower domestic
tariffs, because the resultant revival in trade would quicken
demand abroad for his surplus. !' . ' ...
As we have said before, the world war changed the
status of the United States and rendered the old high pro
tective policy damaging in the extreme to our future econ-
. omy. This country became following the war a creditor in
steai of a debtor nation. But no nation can continue-indefin-itelV
a creditor nation and an export surplus nation. Other
lands cannot indefinitely ship! us gold in interest and gold
to care for our export surplus which such a trade balance
would necessitate. The tariff is by no means the sole cause
of depression but it is a contributing cause. I - ;
Similar conclusions are voiced in the address given last
Saturday by Benjamin M. Anderson, economist of Chase
National Bank, New York, before the Foreign Policy asso
ciation. Persons interested in the question should study his
entire address. Pertinent extracts are: i ft
The quickest; way to set oat of the existing depression is to
reduce our tariffs so that our foreign castomers may sell more good
here and get more dollars with which to pay Interest apon their
debts and with which to buy oar goods. If wo do not buy w can
not tll. If we do not buy enough we cannot seU eaeugb.
"Bankers amr economists hare- been telUng jthe country this
ever since the world war. But the country has been slow la learning
: the lesson . . . - . i- : ' . i , ': ''.--
"Taking time enough, we can finally readjust ourselves, and
the rest of the world can readjust itself to this situation, We can
curtail agricultural production, we can abandon, farms and farmers
ran more to the cities and find new ways of making a living
But this Is a-slow process, and a painful processj add an unneces
sary process, "We can cut through and caa make tbis readjustment
unnecessary if we can restore our foreign trade! and-we can do
that by lowering the tariffs. ! I 1
: "From many parts of the world, complaints Come of surpluses
or goods. The cry or overproduction comes to ua at a ume wnen,
all over the world, production Is sharply lowered from what It was
a year or two ago. There is talk of overproduction of grain and
livestock. And certainly we hare
fnlted States than our neoDle can
Europe eating black bread, who! would .gladly leaf white bread if
they could afford ix, and there are many in Europe eating meat
orye a week, who would gladly eat meat three, four, r five times
a week if they could afford it. They cannot afford it because their
hands are tied by lack of markets
tnm nut witH limitad tools and
ance of skilled hand work, they make fine things which we can not
make so well in this country because labor is relatively scarce and
high priced with ps and we use our labor economically for mass
nrodnction In. combination with great masses, of machinery and
equipment, or in combination with our. broad acres of land. A aur
. i . j . nimitiMl nMini4i liar anil a Riimlna and
glut of fine, artistic merchandise in Europe or a surplus capacity
: to produce tine manufactures. But it the tariffs: were lowered, these
gluts would disappear. We would trade them off for one another.
The prices of our farm product would rise, arid the buying power
" W Bit Kl 1 1 r NA&lJUCa WUUAU lUQt A
would rise, and the European workman, springing eagerly to his
tools, would produce more of them to buy the white bread and the
moat five times a week. And the restoration of the general buying
power of our export Interests in. the United States, agriculture, cop
per, oil, automobiles and numerous ether, important interests, would
so greatly increase demand for the products Qt American manu
facturers that few Indeed among them could complain of loss be
. nnuk th tariffs were reduced.. , - !
"It is- far better that the' world should share In an expanding.
trade than that each country, closing i markete more and more
as depression grows, should fight
'. dwindlinr trade.''
x' "Under the existing regime of high and rising tariffs, 'virtually
every country ln the -world is faced with this Important problem of
redncina- Its vrodnction tor export, and shifting ever to producing
tor domestic markets. Every country Is obliged to become more or
" less self-sufficing, every country has a painful readjustment to make.
"There are those who fear the lowering! of the tariffs because
-they believe that the American standard of lift la dependent upon
. the tariff s, aad . particularly because tne believe that high tariffs
make high wages. This doctrine has very little standing among
economists. -Wages do not depend upon .tariffs, and standards of
lire GO not oepena upon taniis. wasea uepena upon ine prouuc
tlvtty of labor per man, . an the productivity of la bos per man de
pends, other things equal, upon the abundance or scarcity of the
laad and capital with which labor works. The country which has a
comparative abundance of land and capital and a comparative scar
. . m . .a emm
city of labor win have aign wages, as is true or tne united states.
' In a country like China, where men are abundant, capital scarce.
and land scarce, land rents will be very high, interest rates will be
very high', "and wage-ratea jwin.be yery low, tariffs er no tariffs.
American labor la high, in com pari tan with European labor because
. lana ana capital r ibuiutci acruiamiii wub m ug men Tsuutei
and labor relatively abundant. 1
The great rise in wages la tte United States ' since the pre
. " war days has not been due to the tariff. We had higb tariffs be-'-
tore the war. The greatest factor In the rise of wages baa been the
restrictions oi immisrauvu, m, muor uupcu , in, vsr .lueu
- by. the military situation, and, second, those imposed by legislation
to gain, by and large, from a lowering of the tariffs in the United
"I'have said almost nothing today that would have bad a bear
lug, on the political controversies regarding the tariff as we used to
hear the matter discussed in the tranquil pre-war day when the
world was in balance. I have said nothing about the price which
- American consumers must pay, tor goods as a result of the tariffs.
I am prepared, to concede that protective tariffs had their beneficial
side in earlier. periods in our history, that they developed our man
ufactures sooner than they would otherwise hare been developed,
tat they hastened the growth
from country to city taster than
they that helped in making eur industries diversified, and that they
buy t up some industries needed for war which might otherwise not
have developed so rapidly. I -do not propose now. that we should
abandon the protective tariff, or that weahould go to a free trade
basis. 1 propose, rather; suci readjustment of the tariff as will
avoid the necessity of - a further readjustment, a further drift of
population from country to city, a farther abandonment of farms. I
propose a reduction in the tariff not in the interest of readjustment
and change, but in the interest of stability. 4 i -
"We face a wholly changed world, as compared with the pre
.; war situation. We were then av. debtor country, paying our rica
creditors interest in the form of wheat and cotton and meat-Todav
we are a creditor eouctry on a great scale, and our natural position
I that of receiving a large volume of imports, .which our debtors
send us to pay intern co vJvt they owe. We must learn to receive
and welcome an Import surplus. ' - V;. . f ; -. ..r
. b-;h tariffs, aecsi-aeied by an
, v.aicnk since June of 1130, hare
to U or not otharwiaa credited in j
Ma. IMS; 1)W
EJso-
Or a year la
more of these basic foods in the
consume. But there are many in
for the fine products which they
machinery. But with an abund
fc . - w - - r
for disproportionate, snares in a
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Ttt m . ji ' , iv. M
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of. our. cities. Arawina in nonulation
it would otherwise have . come.
-enormous volume of forelga loans
been placed at a sharply reduced
Jenner and
Vaccination
By C C. Dauer, M. D.
Marlon Co. Health Dept. .
It is always interesting to read
about important discoveries. Dis
coveries In medical science are no
less interesting
than In any
other branch of
human knowl
edge. We often
hear that many
new discoveries
are. accidental.
That is true in
a limited sense
but most of the
great iscorer
lea have been
made- by men
who had vision,
that . la, . their
great : minds
found them.
Dr. CO, Daaav Tenner made
his great contribution over- a cen
tury ago and if was done because
of his very keen powers of observation.-'...
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i Previous to vaccination against
smallpox only about- fire to ten
per cent of people escaped the in
fection. So sure were people that
they would get the d&ease . at
some time, they would deliber
ately expose themselves to it in
order to have tt over with. About
one out of every four contracting
the disease-died ar a result of
the infection. In children often
half of them died during an epi
demic. ;'.-. ---
It was brought to Jenner at
tention that milk-maid often es
caped infection from smallpox. In
vestigation showed that the milk
ers often were Infected by cow-
pox. Jenner got the consent of
several of these people to expose
them-to small pox or would intro
duce some of the material from -a
pustule of a person snfferinar from
small pox Into the arm of one who
had had cow pox. None of them
developed small - pox. - He next
found a number of people '.who
had never had small pox or cow
pox and vaecinated them with ma
terial from the pustule from a cow
suffering with cow pox. They all
developed a single lesion and bad
comparatively mild symntoma.
These same individuals were ex
posed to small pox or treated a
the mUk maids who had infected
themselves from cows and the re
sult was the same, they did not
develop small pox.
A number of years cr to nu.
before Jenner' discovery s met
with much response. However
today It.i universally recognised
that the only way to stamp out
small pox is to vscclnatexevery
one. Yet there are many who
don't beUeve in it." so w mt
continue to have smallpox on ac
count or the Ignorant one. When
properly performed. ; vaccination
safe procedure. Vaccine free
from harmful bacteria and tha
newer method of performing vac
cination nave done mueh to elim
inate many of the dlstresslnr fea
tures that formerly attended this
means or eradicating a real
scourge.
The Safety
Valve - -
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Letters frca f
-' SUtesraan geaderi '
Editor Statesman: "
I can remember tha old dava
when, people were patriotic; when
we paraded the street with handa
and flambeau torch; when the
uott boys sang patriotic songs at
tue Armory. Bat at Amo ' 4
Andy would put it: "Dem day is
been gone forever." ; Maybe some
day we will have more business
men and executive who will run
things for the, best intereata nf
the people, instead of a bunch of
norse-tradlng slicker who shoot
marble "With the hi In
Then and not till then will pa-
iriwuB return to u - American
people. In your editorial of March
21st you make comment of the
fact that some ex-soldier is going
to loan ala : bona . money and
mak 1 per cent. What doe it
matter what he makes.1 He la en
uuea 10 eery nickle tl IL Why
aia toe Doy go over there In the
nrst place? Wag it freedom of
me seas or was it to save the
money Wall street had loaned tha
allies? Germany had them whip
ped until America went Into the
fight aad if America hadn't
went Into the. fixht tha alllaa
would bare been payinar Germany
poor wan street would have
on .ion noioing the sack. -
jtespeetiully, - i
H. E. Damon.
er
: - . Of Cli Orejoa
wj Talk frqpa xbe States
mam Omr Fsiher Ba4
A barrier .-entarad tha 'r . n
Barnes home this -morn in r mi
" not at . three time . by Mr,
Barnes,- however the thief : got
way. A maid beard the viaitnr
. ..rB? . Quiouy notified the
. .7; - wtTm racepuon
w vaiM mo result. -The
prohibition
Uon was caUed to order by Oliyer
. . xa9 nTn"on endorsed a
full list of election eindidata i.
also adopted resolutions favoring
wwuias uuxage.;t -
t .'atton " presented the
Liberty school district In Polk
county wTtn a handsome flag.
. The Willamette' T...v.f
ball team won IS to t from the
bigh school , girl here last night
lest
dav
Vtlt:. . A Ct ?em uklaR ke form of abort credit 4nd refunding
4t thn, raiding new money In the form of long-term
2t: t? hod th import down, if we will, by maintaining
our tariff policy, but aa a, it . .. . ' i ..
iT Itf ,And Ten though we hold the Import down, wcan
IZl? JnenUr avert tbe Import surplus, because we cut our ex
fhfr.7, ve nt of Import. We can control the import aide of
! if but th outside world Jxas a voice with respect to
tne export side. - -':., '. jr
- it aot time f or us to forget politics and consider this tariff
question as a business matter!" . ' : -
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"A Knight
Dare Ordway, wealthy young
aviator, makes forced landing
in am orange grove in the hinter
land of "Florida. Looking tor the
owner to pay. aim for the damage.
Dare comes upon two beautiful
girl in overalls. Joan Marbury,
with the aid of ber causin, sany,
ha been' running the plantation
since her father' death. Fearing
the wrath of Mueller, owner of
the adjoining groves, ewhea -at
learn of the damage to his trees,
the girls urge Dave to leave; He
insists upon reimbursing Mueller,
and when he learn Mueller has
been molesting the girls, he is
more anxious than ever to meet
hint. Just then Mueller's plane
flies by. Dave wonders why he
has an amphibian when there 1
no water In the vicinity. On the
way to , Mueller's. Dave, picture
his former fiancee, haughty Bar
bars Holworthy, in Joan's place.
When Dave object to Mueller's
demand for 120 00, Mueller takes
1850 from Dave' wallet at the
point , of a gun, ordering a check
for the balance. vTriu . Dave re
fuses and Mueller, threatening to
collect, orders him out of the vi
cinity before nightfall. Knowing
the girls' financial status, Dave is
touched by their hospitality. He
learns Joan Is planning to sell the
property and return north, though,
reluctant to leave the country.
Sally, on the other hand, is anx
ious to get back to bright lights,
crowd and mnsic
CHAPTER XI i
Dave guessed that there was a
long-standing difference of opinion
between these girls. He' had felt
it ever since Sally bad whispered
an apology tor.. Joan's apparent
curtness. He had the feeling that
it would not take a great deal, to
precipitate a break between them.
But even as be studied their faces
in an attempt to read what was
in their minds, Hannah, bustled
into the room, almost Incoherent
la ber excitement. '
""Miss Joan," Ah panted, her
eye rolling whitely, J'dey' some
pin' out yonder do look like a
powful big fire. Do look like bit
Mis' Mueller house."
With one bound Dare was, out
of his chair and standing at the
east window. The tops of the
citrus trees were etched -In a red
and black half-tone against -a
backdrop of leaping scarlet flame
in the distance.
: "That' Just what It i Muel
ler's house!" gasped Sally, her
shoulder pressed against the fly
er's aide as she,', too, crowded to
the window. : . ,
The flames mounted higher
and higher -amid a cloud of vis-
van f laaV av . fMaVa asrrfja-H
'VWU SU VBtf V WKUWnV .WlatVU
glowed dull red as It rolled off
into the ; glowing, sky; The very
cloud themselves -seemed to be
ablaze as it the flames were feed
ing upon themselves. A rumbling
noise like distant heat thunder
echoed through the tropte night.
No-woodfed -fire: over barned sd
fiercely. -; r
- - More Thajt Mower -
"It' my ' plane!", . exclaimedJ
Dave, turning abruptly ; away
from the window;
-He raced down the long ball.
leaped from the sagging! porch
and ran through tbe grove, the
girls following at their- topmost
: . What had once been a sleek,
little monoplane was now a gauat
skeleton f rapidly disintegrating
struts and longerons, surrounded
and encompassed by a veritable
volcano of belching flame. Just
as Dav came to an abrupt halt
against the - invisible- barrier of
searing beat, the radial mortor
1 dropped from Its charred founds-
wakinq up.?,
rlyin
omes
tions and fell to the sandy soil,
glowing cherry red. He shielded
bs face with his arms, . looking
helplessly at the roaring fire, in
a wide circle around the blase tbe
trees trembled restlessly ia .the
rising air. their leaves shriveling
and turning brown as the hot
blast withered tbe sap within
their tender surfaces, i ;
A dull ache throbbed in Dave's
heart. The monetary loss meant
little but the plane was as dear
to him as is a full-blooded horse
to It master. It was more than
an inanimate mechanism of wood,
wire and metal. It had been a
thing throbbing with life, hurt
ling breathlessly through, the air
a though it had. been answering
the pilot's very wishes instead of
his hand on the stick and his
feet on the rudder pedals, ..
Spatters of blazing- gasoline
were spewed out of the cauldron
and set fire to patches of dead
grass between the trees. Dozens
of tiny tfres burned fiercely tor a
moment , and then smouldered to
nothing. He watched them, daz
edly," glad to take his eyes away
from the funeral pyre of his
Wasp. ' : i . t
Then suddenly, be stiffened to
attention, gazing intently at 4 a
tiny square object which was
clearly outlined in the ruddy
glare. He stepped forward, scoop
ed tt up and returned to the spot
where the girls, stood watching
him. U: 1 ; i ,- v
"Know anyone who uses match
es like these?" he asked, holding
out a penny box of safeties.
plied, Joan. "Ton buy: them in
large packages' at tbe cross-roads
store. . . J .. .!-: - ..
-.. i Fowl PUy ,
Dave opened 1 the box and
scratched one of the , matches
against. the abrasive.: The little
stick flared up in a bright yellow
flame. He flicked it toward the
burning. plane. ; i ' -'
f "Is there much dew. here I at
night , he asked, a deep crease
of thoughtfulness between his
eyebrows. '- ?-).!
"Tes. At this time of year. re
plied Joan, puxsled - by bis ques
tion, "the grass is quite wet la
the morning r
"Could yott have brought this
box..out here today?" J -..
. "No." Joan's voice was positive.
"Wo only; carry matches , whea
we're burning scrub.".
He slipped the box f into his
pocket and fumed to watch " the
last remnants of hi plane burn
into charred sticks and .glowing
metal. The cousins, understasd-
Jrlng hi sense "of - personal loss.
were silent in sympathy. , There
was little fuel to teed the flames,
now. In a - few moments there
would be nothing but smoulder
ing debris.. - " - - :
"Let's go," Dve said quietly. ;
" Bat the girls did not - move.
They were staring fixedly into the
darkness on the other side of the
fire. Dave, curious, followed 'the
line of their startled gaze. At first
he could see nothing but the crim
soned fruit trees. Then, slowly
emerging from the r wavering
shadows, came the figure of -a
man. A familiar, heavy-set fig
ure, carrying a gun in the crook
of his left arm. It was Mueller.
Dave felt a pounding in his tem
ples, a tightening in his throat.
By a conscious effort of will.
he controlled his almost overpow
ering desire for battle and stood
passive while MueUer stepped lull
into the flamelit.circle and stared
curiously at theremnants of the
plane. The man's ratty eye trav
eled over the - .fast-disappearing
wreckage,' thea squinted through
the glare to the other side, where
the two girls and the pilot stood
watching hfm. Slowly, deliberate
ly, he spat toward the tire and
strolled around to where the si
lent three were standing.
"Plane burned, eh?" he said.
his face expressionless, i '
"Looks like it. doesn't ; It?"
agreed Dave, fumbling in .his
pocket.
"A lot more of your trees arone.
now," - Mueller observed, staring
at the girls. "They'll never live
after being singed like that."
X
V By Eustace
L. Adams
"It doesn't matter, said Joan,
flatly.; ' '
Dave placed a cigarette
tween his lips and turned
MueUer. :;
to
"Have you a match?"Jb.e asked.
Mueller glanced suspiciously at
him and hesitated briefly. Then,
seeing! the girls' eyes upon him.
he reached into bis side pocket.
He shook his head.
"Left 'em at home. I guess.
Dave presented the box he had
found in the grass.
"These . yours?' be asked
quietly. .
Mueller' shifty brown eyes
clashed with his. A large, hairy
band accepted the box, opened it
and offered it to tne flyer.
"Yeah, guess they're mine, all
right Want one?"
Dave's hand shot forward.
grasped the barrel of the shotgun
and jerked it out of Mueller's
arm. He stepped back and, hold
ing the weapon by the muzzle.
whirled it around bis head and
hurled It far Into the outer dark
ness of the grove. Then he faced
the other, his mouth twitching
slightly at the left corner. -
"So you weren't content with
your cheap little stick-up and had
to burn my plane, eh?"
Mueller's eyes were narrowed
Into agate-hard slits. He stood
hi ground. 1 i
"Didn't I tell you you'd save
money writing me a check?" he
retorted mockingly. -
"Fair enough.' snapped Dave.
"That bus was worth $15,000. I'm
going to take that amount out of
your hide, right here and now."
. Joan and Sally, . shocked into
immobility by the sudden flare-
up or hostility, saw Dave's band
flash up as swiftly as the stroke
of a rattlesnake and heard a dull
chopping sound as his knuckles
landed full on the point of Muel
ler's blue-black Jaw. The man
toppled as if he had been struck
by lightning. He lay thTere. flat on
bis back, his hand fluttering od
dly against the ground. . Then,
slowly, ho raised his head to look
up at the pilot, who stood silent,
waiting. - He relaxed and lay still
tor many moment, hi huge chest
rising and faUing slowly, regu
larly. At last he rolled over on hi
stomach and pushed himself pain
fully, laboriously, to bis feet.
In tbe next - instant be bad
leaped at the Pilot with the sud
den, convulsive movement of a
charging tiger. Ill heavy body
crashed Into the other, who was
borne down by the sheec-tuomen-tusa
of the attack. They miUed
around In the firelight, fighting
like alley eats, first one on top,
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BLOOM QUEEN
Hiss Patricia D. Morton (above),
ef Winchester, England, will reign
as Queen JezutzuToah VII at the
eighth annual apple Llossom fes
tival to ho held la Winchester, Va,
BITS for BREAKFAST
-By It. J. IIENDRICK3'
How. crazy are wet
George, Bernard Shaw recently
said : ft was quite evident that
God intended this earth to be
the lunatic asylum of the uni
verse. . ; ', ,
He could particularise a lot
On exhibit might be the crude
way ) crime Is handled, harking
back to the Silurian age. Ana
the United States could be justly
cited as outstanding in this ex
hibit of looney and long whis
kered and generally long haired
atavism.' ..
. Here and there we show - Im
provements over the age of the
cave dwellers. " Let us give
thanks for that much..
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They have been having riots In
the 11 year old prison at Jollet
Ills.;, aad the new one at State
ville, near by, that it ia intended
In time to take the place of the
eld one. At the present rate .of
progress, this will perhaps come
about In about 1000 years.
Competent observers are not
surprised over the news' from
Jollet and Statevill-. . Taken at
random, - here are a few sen
tences from the latest report ia
the "Handbook of American Pri
son and Reformatories, by the
visitor lor the National Society
of Penal Information, who was
there May 10 and 11, 1928: .
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"The cells are old and fiave
no plumbing. - They are inade
quately - ventilated for one : in
mate, and two. men are now
quartered in them. As a whole,
the plant aggravates every prob
lem of penal administration and
must continue to do so as long
as it is used for large number
of men. ' -
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"The erection of buildings
from time to time has taken up
so mueh of the yard space that
there is now none available for
recreation purpose. No recrea
tion program 1 arranged for, ex
cept ONCSJ A TEAR, on July
4th. No privon In the United
States today devotes so little
time or .space to recreation,
which, has long since proved its
value as a means of physical and
mental health,
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' "The Industrie appear to be
marking time. - While one or
two of them has some vocational
value, the lack of sufficient busi
ness to keep them running re
sults in confirming men In hab
its of semi-idleness or in training
them to be . industrially ineffi
cient Those men who are fortu
nate enough; to be assigned to
shops spend much of their time
walking or lounging about- Large
numbers have no employment
.whatever.
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"The energetic efforts of the
new . eaucauonai director are
balked by the failure of the c-f fl
ciais to cooperate. The , two
school rooms are dingy, out of re
pair and Inadequate. The morale
of the Inmates Is unllktJty to
make an educational program
flourish, although the idleness in
which large numbers spend their
days creates a great opportunity
ror such work, until the Jollet of
ficials recognize the value of ed
ucation and make it an integral
part or tne prison program, the
present situation, which Is noth
ing short of disgraceful, will con
tinue.
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"For a few month there was
a school principal and an attempt
was made to start an educational
program. The use of pencils and
paper was not permitted. On June
f, lizs, the school principal sev-
then the other, as they rolled over
and over into the shadow of the
trees.
The girls, spellbound, could see
oniy tne wnue wur of their faces,
the flashing white of their hands
The sound of the battla ram a
clearly to .their ears throurh tha
snapping and crackling of the
fire. Sobbing, rasping intakes of
breath a their- labored . lungs
gasped tor air; -coughing grunts
as sledgehammer blows were
driven home; the slithering scuf
fle of bodies against sand, brush
and tree trunks; all th a mm.
blned to make a- hideous clamor
tnac eiutened the girls' hearts and
beat against their brains. The two
men rolled back into the ruddy
ureugnt.
.;).--" The Fight
. JOaa Stifled. A aram mm ah.
looked at them. In the few brief
seconas of th struggle, they had
almost lost semblance to human
beings. Their clothe were torn to
ribbons and dirt, their expres
sions those of men lusting to kill.
rvau teetn glittered through
blood-smeared lips that were con
torted into hideous grimaces. She
had never known that men could
look so. --
Seaethiaa seemed ta 1rv
horrified gase away from the two
men on the ground. She found
herself staring across the tiro to-
wsjo tne gloom on the other side.
tne stood for an instant, as if
hypnotized by what she saw. then
abruptly turned away . from her
cousin's side and dashed -clrzar-
ging through the grove into . the
uaruess, wnere she began to
search the ground, casting back
and forth like a setter trying to
pick up a lost scent. She eoni
hear the sounds of the fight be
hind her. Her own heart was
eating m ner ears, her breath
hissing noisily through her
clenched teeth. . .
Sally, by the fire, stare after
her uncertainly. Then her fasci
nated eyes returned to the two
men who were pounding -each
ether, gouging one another with
their hands and knees. lost to
everything but the lusting desire
to maim and km. -
Joan's efforts Were frenzied
now, as she ran this way and that,
searching along the cleared spa
ces between the slender trees. Fi
nally, with a gasp of triumph, she
swooped down and clutched at
the cold steel barrel of the shot
run which Dave had whirled into
the -darkness. She raced back to
ward the fire, About to emerge
into tbe flame-lit circle, she came
to an abruf-t stop and crouched
beneath the fruit-laden boughs of
a tree. f
. (To Be Continued Tomorrow)
ered his connection with the in
stitution and educational work
ceased,.. , I '
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"The lack of time or space tat
recreation is only one. phase ' of
the .monotony of the prison rou
tine aa a whole. In no other Drla-
on of the United States is there to
be found so much of the repres
sion and monotony which a few
decades ago characterized ' most
prisons.
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"The situation 1 no doubt m
difficult one to control, but tbe
experience of many administra
tors la a large number of Insti
tutions shows that monotonous
routine and repressive methods of
discipline add to the disciplinary
problems and in no . way solve .
them. Too great rigidity In pria-J
on discipline has proven Itself as
demoralizing as too great laxity.
While the policy at Jollet I un
doubtedly due in part to charac
ter of the plant and the industrial
situation, it appear Just as clear
ly to be due in large measure to
official viewpoint."
There you are. Result, riots.
And every prison riot of the past
few year ha come out of the
same conditions. Idleness. Inad
equate housing facilities. Official
boneheadnesa and dumbness. At
Jollet at the time of the report.
Zfi men were being asslrned to
the chair shops, 314 to the fiber
shops, 77 to the power house, 48
to j tne maenme shop, and 8 to
the concrete shop. That many,
with some 2009 inmates.
The first requisite for. a orison
should be work. The next, a dally
wage for workers, nowever small
the wage, The devil finds work
for idle hands to do. .
i 1s
Our If. billion dollar annual
money cost of crime In the United
W . . . . . ... . .
o uuea reaucea
until all institutions like the Jol
let prison and its branch at
Staterille, under one . head, are
weeded out
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And the money cost Is onlr '
part of the story. The cost in
tear and haa Kr.aV m m v .
nocent victims cannot be counted
n aouars; tne Innocent victims
who are the mothera and fathara a
and children and near relatives
or in men. behind the grim walls
or on the way there. i
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A whole new psychology must
be developed in this country; la
new attitude towards men
charged with and
felonies and minor offenses and
toward th army released every
day. The turn-over is on the are
rage only of about two years. Ths
2000 at Jollet and StatevUle will
bo out within not far from 24
months (excepting some long
termers); and a new crop will b
behind the walls, with a eonatrfl.
erable part Of the old crop back
tor anoiner dismal grind.
j we are on the, way to bettei
things in Oregon; with indus
tries; with no j idleness, and ' I
wage for every worker. And i
new prison on a large acreage ol
farm land.
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I With this program, and her, po
lice school pointing the way, 6re
gon 1 due to take high gfouD,
In the reform that will elimlnati
the Joliets and halt the crlnit
wave. :'-,;
OPERETTA PLANNED
TURNER. March 23 Tha orv
eretta, "Paul Revere", will bi
taged at the high school auditor
ium Friday evening, March 27. It
i a romance of the revolution
ary period with Paul Revere at
the hero. The costumes will bs
elaborate and of the Colonial
styles. Thirty-five voices will be
heard in the chorus. It Promises
to be a worth-while entertain
ment. A full house is promised
with ticket selling at 25 cents
and 10 cents for children in the
balcony.
DOCTOR'S
Prescription gives
Bowels Real Help
Train your bowel to be regu
lar; to move at tbe same time
very day; to be so thorough
that they get rid of all the
waste, . Syrup . Pepsin a r doc
tor prescription will help you
do this, When you take this
compound of laxative herbs; pure
pepsin -' and other valuable in
gredients, you are helping the
bowels to help themselves.
; Dr.' Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Is
the sensible thing to take when
ever you are headachy, bilious,
half-sick from constipation.
When you have no appetite, and
a bad taste or ad breath shows
you're full of poisonous matter
or sour bile.
Dr. Caldwell's studied bowel
troubles for 4 T year. HI pre
scription always works quickly,
thoroughly; can never do you
any harm. It Just cleans you -but
and sweetens the whole di
gestive tract Jt gives those
overworked bowels the help they
need. ' -'-'
Take some Dr. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin today, and see how
fine you feel tomorrow and for
days to v, come. - Give it to the
kiddies when they're 'sickly or
feverish; they'll like the taste!
Tour druggist has big -".- of
it, all ready for use.
OaiW. B.Oto'vtt
SVEllJP PPSlf '
A Doctor ramify Laxatut
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