The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning tlay 23. 1S31
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A BOUT all the news that
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IlA iu. ' 4- fcQTiftAr of their imbibing is quite
ES-ST edTfterthF
showing hospitaUty. and most Sy
formula, "when in Rome do what the RomaM do. This may
not be a very desirable picture from the dftf 4 of
American constitution, but it does conform to the rules of
But the reporters covering the trip would
.7. " :JT u,,- . o-r-on Hphauch. as though the may-
AliW. them
tplves a Dicture which we are confident w by no means
triTrnt t story of all come, i the Chicago Tnbune
service which of course deugnis w ruuiuis
ftuX a rnoisteninff machine to make it dripping wet. -
Maiy oTthe bidailies in their anxiety to break down
prohSn are overreaching themselve Thdr very . stones
creaS an attitude of disgust on the part of the public. This
French trip, described as it has been, will awaken resent
ment amoS the people, who will not approve of their offi
cial rresentetivW tping about a foreign country on a
d n ciSSal. ThrprbabUity is thaMt is the , report
tag and perhaps the reporters that are drunk, while the
mayors will get the blame.
More Warehouses Planned
THE wheat cooperative Bet-up shows signs of too much
overhead. The eastern heads of the national organiza
tion come out and propose to take over direct marketing of
the wheat in the northwest, overriding the regional organi
sation out here. They are proposing to buy or build ware
Knaoa trt lumrflA the. eTain. A million bushel warehouse is
promised for Spokane. - ; ' . . f . . .
Before we know it there will be a big duplication of fa
cilities. There is scant need for additional warehouse storage
In Spokane, Spokane is the financial capital of the. wheat
growing area, but not the center of the wheat district. The
wheat all moves to tidewater. There is ample warehouse and
elevator space at the primary shipping points, and compar
atively little wheat moves through Spokane, hardly any in
fact, excert the Montana wheat : I
Here in Portland the Port of Portland is building new
rrfoin oi-mirnl f nr trie" cnnTvprative. although Portland al-'
ready has very spacious elevators for handling wheat, and
the prospect this year is for a smaller production in the in
terior. It seems a safe presumption that the new set-up
wants to spend money and get action,' even though it is
economically wasteful. j
Eventually all the extra cost comes out j of the pocket
of th wheat-grower or the taxpayers. j
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1 V The Soldiers' Home j : ; . .
ASIDE from the ambitious contentions of lome of the
cities which rival Eoseburg in seeking j the veterans'
home, the people of Oregon are strongly favorable to the
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home, which pushed the appropriation through congress,
and which has been most generous in offering spacious and
attractive sites to the government, i
The only protest that has been made against Roseburg
is that its passenger train service is now limited. But this
is of small consequence. This train service is limited simply
because people are not traveling on trains. AH this holler
- viii mva MV4 VfMUViUia CMAMAW VUC wa A AAA a lUAjr WUU1U
. if It were proposed to locate the home in Dunsmuir where
the same train service would prevail People travel by auto
bow; and the bus lines go right through Roseburg.
The city that steps in and steals this home from Rose
burg will have to live down its bad reputation for many
years.; : . : - j
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A WARM fight will be on when congress meets next time
over the methods of raising money to meet the govern
ment deficit The senate radicals will insist on jamming
high taxes down the throats of the wealthy, while Andy
Mellon thinks the taxes should be distributed over a great
er number of people. Now only four per cent of the people
pay federal income taxes. Mellon thinks more people should
o a eSJ0T the suPPrt of government in the good old U.
S. A; 'The senate progressives have a different conception
f taxation, they use it as a weapon for leveling off of for
tunes and win want to increase the surtaxes and the normal
rates in the higher brackets. - ,
" v. iIeaEtie the President seems to be thinking
about ways to hold down taxes by reducing government ex
penses. He has started in on the war depaVteentwd go!
. utiwwucui. oaving a Diiiion dollars
in running the government ought to be wy if only a Per-
.-.JSii d VM lrJ1alln ittnd of two centa & bor to adrertisa It.
ear Thi. -hould prye a rery profitable laTfctmentbecans? Ml
aaUtr of taa prodact adrertlsed. and becaaso ietn iSSt .SiiiSl
t seaeral eoaanmptloa should bar. tholral" ."ar i 2
adTertlalns campaln Th promise of a redced CaMw!!
sWea a good- ehaaea for Xh jUm lirer Tailed & Cr0p
a&ara of freab Dears ta th Vh- 7 if t0 aPP1r larger
to tbo frL 5 frff ikeS Vnffl U m0T ?eir 50
dru. oa tbo market, lac, in,
BUorSof SSurwater
abolished penalties for delinoueney -It will . MiTiL . . Wfi,ch
collectlonslnd Ucrsm-a " waSStdelSae x
general banker to the amount of the UxISj? .k6 tk eount1'
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. A rnfv5D ,a Washington has passed a resolution ealllne. rtt,
"more equitable distribution of the tax burdVnT Transfated tbl
X?rase means: soak tha other fellow. I rmsute l"
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Managing Editor
4ArltMl ITHijl
New Yet. 7l BJUMOO AT,
SaUm, Origin, Secoi-CUu9
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the correspondents sxm to
mvnr' tnnr of France
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Typhoid Mary
C. C. DAUER, M D.
" Marlon Co. Health Dept.
After a person bat- coara
lesced from an attack of trphold
ferer, typhoid senna ara fouad
in tha intestin
al dlacbarsea
for a Yarylng"
length of time.
It he continues
to carry tha
bacteria after a
three months
par tod baa
lapsed ; from
t b termina
tion of his dis
ease ' be . la
called a chron
ic carrier.
Such a per
son is a men
ace to the
Dr. C. O. Dar health Of Other
people and especially so if he
handles food that other people
eat. - - -. ' ; , - : ;
. CASE CITED
One of tha most famous "car
riers" In this country waa a worn-1 .
an known as "Typhoid Mary'!
who was a chronic typhoid car
rier and infected twenty-four per
sons with the disease In a period
ofN six years (l01-07) in which
she serred aa a family cook. The
food waa infected with typhoid
germs from her Intestinal dis
charges presumably transferred
by her unclean bands, -
She refused to submit to
measures armed at clearing up
her "carrier state and was final
ly -placed for three years on
North Brother Island by the New
York City Board of Health where
she could not be a raeance to the
health, of the community. Cul
ture of her intestinal discharge
es at ,freauent- lnterrala contin
ued to show typhoid germs. She
was, howerer, finally gtrea bar
liberty.
CATJGHT AFTER ALL
She escaped observation tor
the next four years and was then
located In 1915, Urlng under an
assumed name to escape incrim
ination in the investigation of an
outbreak of typhoid which bad
just occurred among - tha em
ployees of a well known hospital
in New York City. ,
Records showed that she bad
entered the employ of the hos
pital in October 1914. and tha
evidence was orerwhelmlne that
she was the "carrier'! of the in
fection to twenty-fire hospital
employes, thus bringing the total
of typhoid cases directly attri
butable to this one "carrier" to
forty-nine in a period of four
teen years.
Such is the way in which ty
phoid is often spread and the
health authorities must always
be on guard to protect any com
munity from such a menace.
Wlltl haalth TJroblema tiara wont If
U abo artiela raiaaa any qaeatioa ia
yor raiad. writ that qveatioa oat
send it either to The Btateaman or the
Mariea coiintr department ef health. The
answer will appear la this eeJenta. Natae
(honld be ligned. bat will not b used ia
ta paper.
Yesterdays
... Of Old Salem
Tows Telka from The State
man of Earlier Days '
May 28, 10O
John Amort has commenced
action in circuit court to hare de
clared illegal certain proceedings
of the board of directors of school
district No. 80. Shaw. He alleg
es that a pretended meeting to
propose way and means for con
struction of a new building was
Irregular.
Salem Elks are making pre
liminary plans for a big celebra
tion to be held for four days be
ginning June 39.
R. Yantia "baa purchased In
terest of his partner, LV R. Steel
hammer, in the Toggery.
Hay 28, 1021 , -
rive tone of clothes are gather
ed up by. members of the city
council. Boy Scouts and other or
ganizations for relief of the fam
ine stricken Armenians.
.The Salem Baking company
filed articles of incorporation. In
corporators are M, T. Madsen. C.
K. Foster and H. H. Haynes. Cap
ital la $25,000, j :
Judge W.- - Sf . BnsheV of tha
Marion county court addressed
the Rotary club on road work In
the county. , . , .
Daily Thought
TODAY'S THOUGHT .. . '
"Ha who U silent Is forgotten ;
he who absUlns is taken at-his
word he who doea not advance
falls backj he 'who stops is over
whelmed, distanced, crushed: ha
who ceases to grow greater be
comes smaller? he who leaves off.
gives up; the stationary condition
Is the beginning. of the end."
Aniiei. - -.. . . ... .. . m t
New-Vi
lews
"Do you think a miw
ate does or should receive prefer
ence in recelvlag a position?" was
skeSSeSi o'
- Luclen C. SchoU, Northern Ufe
Inrance C0.1 "All applicants
tor posiUons in our eompany must
be college graduates by a recent
Mr other companies are
requiring the same thing." , -
TJ7mvGhIrdorf' OahlsdorTa,
Ttl fr education is a good
n..but u bre mora people
than it makes, if a man had a
good personality along with his
training I'd hire him, but with-
hare hfrn1ULtt pers01lalItJ' '
i Jl Childs, ffinamette jon
iSima tdeiBa Pa both the
Individual and the Job. In cases
Itrr JLJ?11 fr-lnta 1 neces
ary I bUe that the individual
who has received that trsialng.in
college should be giren the pref
erence. In other cases It depends
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HERE'S HOW
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P, iu4l ' I ROiiGGf aaajj I
t yjYlpoisoK cas.' I
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Tomorrow I Diamonds In Your Coffee.
BITS for BREAKFAST
By It J. HENDRICKS-
: Burying Irtdlaaa allvet
"W
; In hia rare old book. "Tea
Years . in Oregon," V Dr. Elijah
White told of several cases of
burying Indians alive. 'A Wil
lamette Indian woman. - near
where Salem now stands, buried
herself alive, in the grave of her
deceased husband. Here Is - an
other, commencing on page 259 1
"During the year 1844, Mr.
Perkins (Rev. H. W. K. Perkins)
arrived in the colony bringing
with him a boy whom he bad
released from the dead-homa et
rwascopam (The Dalles). He was
a bright looking little fellow. In
telligent and active, end aa ob
ject of universal interest and at
traction, and the account of his
late dismal nocturnal Imprison
ment created mingled feelings of
pity, horror and disgust.
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I "Of his earliest history they
could learn nothing, except that,
at 5 or. years of age he was
captured from bis own tribe, the
Chest es, by the Clamuta (Klam
ath). It seems that the men of
the tribe were hunting, and tha
women, taking their offspring
with them, went out into the
woods and prairies to pick ber
ries, when their enemies found
and killed a portion of them,
taking the boy into slavery. He
was afterwards sold to the chief
of the Wascopams, to be the
companion of his own son, about
the sani age, and soon endeared
himself in a thousand childish
ways to the whole family.
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"The boTa were much at
tached:' whatever vrera the
amusements of the young chief,
his fellow participated He re
ceived a part of his feathers,
shells, and little presents. Some
time after this, Mr. Perkins ar
rived among: them, and a great
reformation commenced in - this
as well as adjacent tribes. He
absolutely resisted whatever In
fluence of the spirit which he
might have felt, and reproached
bis tribe In bitter terms tor their
recreancy. He sometimes, with
flashing eye and angry voice,
commanded them to abandon
the old-womanish notions; and
at others, wjth the winning tones
and touching words which the In
dian can so well adopt, attempt
ed to-. persuade them . to return
td the religion of their noble an
cestors. '
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"But the work was not arrest
ed till as ; It was computed -nearly
1008 , of . these benighted
beings were converted- - Tha
missionaries were very solicitous
about ' the ' rebellious : chief,
mourning bis obstinacy, and
fearing that some awful, calamity
would fall upon him, and Mr.
Perkins ; with untiring seal la
bored ; to place before him the
consequences which might follow
if he persevered. But he turned
a deaf ear, saying he 'feared not
the i power, nor cared for the
vengeance of tha white man's
God - .
"The event too truly showed
that tha predictions were veri
fied, tor two years -had hardly
rolled away before disease and
death made frightful haroc In his
family. , His brother died; his
wife and children, one after an
other wasted and vanished from
sight, wringing his proud heart
with anguish. At length his dar
ling only son was stricken down.
Every . means knowr, to. 'their
on the Individual. XT the college
education has not Improved his
ability, a mere degree does not
entitle one to preference."
Mrs. Lelace H. Ellis, realtor:
"I'd have to do a little Investigat
ing before hiring a college gradu
ate. That would not be my first
requirement."
Helen Pettyjohn, 145 North
14th: "That depends upon the job,
but generally, no."
H. Q. Cowreey. barber: "That's
a ticklish question to ask for pub
lication." Mrs." Carl NeLoa, liomemakers
"No, I don't think so. X think ex
perience counts more than a col
lege degree."
Mrs. Karl Becke,. botnetnaker:
"Practical expert mce for which
people bare bad to work neriously
should .stand an equal chance
with a college degree." ,
By EPSON
laiaBMUfl B-t. a - .am -
tisSrw COPPeO.
earopa serv ui trrxi
jnggiery ana superstition was
employed, but it soon became ap
parent that he was following his
mower ana sisters.
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"The afflicted fatner than
hastened to the man of God tor
help, begging anxiously, abjectly,
for restoratives for his poor boy.
ueaicine was given aim, and
with flylnm stens and santlnr
chest he sped te his gloomy, soli
tary noma. Ha rushed to the
mat, and, forcing open the lips
of tha sufferer, placed the medi
cine upon the already palsied
tongue. , It waa unavailing; the
child could not -swallow. The
pure gem was , stolen ' from the
trail casket, the young spirit had
tied. -.'
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"I cannot describe ! the stern
sire's awful grief; hours-and
days of wordless anguish, for no
man mourna as does the Indian,
who haa no certain knowledge of
again meeting the beloved one.
Especially for a son does the
warrior lament, andi a warrior
waa this father; in him he had
hoped to i see the brave of his
younger days, loved and admired
by the tribe, his praises chanted
in the war song by the men and
sung in love notes by the maid
ens. . i
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"At length by meaning looks
and gestures rather than words,
it was found that the chief had
determined . that the deceased
boy's friend, who had been his
companion in hunting the rabbit,
snaring the pheasant nd fishing
In tha streams, waa to be his
companion In the spirit land; his
son should not ; be deprived of
his associate In the strange
world to which he had gone; that
associate should perish ; by tha
hand of his father, and j be con
veyed by him to the d-.d-housa.
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' "The receptacle waa built on a
long black rock In tli center bt
the Columbia rlrer, around
which, being so near the falls,
tha current was amaslngly rapid.
It waa SO feet In length and per
half half that fa breadth, com
pletely enclosed and sodded, ex
cept at one end where was a nar
row aperture Just - sufficient to
carry a corpse through. . The
council overruled, and: little
George, instead of being slain
was conveyed, living, to the dead
house about sunset. - The dead
were piled on each, side, leaving
a narrow aisle between, and on
one of these was placed the de
ceased boy, and, bound tightly
till the i purple, quivering flesh
puffed above the strong : bark
cords; that he might die very
soon, the living was placed by his
side his face to his, till the rery
Hps met, and. extended along
limb to limb, and .foot to- foot,
and nestled down Into his couch
of rottenness, to Impede his
breathing as far as possible, and
smother his cries.
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"And so they left him, un
heeding his piteous prayers, al
though his shrieks and screams
were so agonising that a tear
stood in the eye of even his
master, and be closed his ears
that he might shut out these
tearful sounds. They left the
child surrounded with heaps of
hideous, festering dead; the cold.
clammy reptile crawling over his
quaking flesh as it toiled to and
fro in Its feast ef loathsomeness,
choking with the hbt, fulsome,
vapors of his ghostly bed."
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Kansan Winner,
In Oratory at
National Meet
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WASHINGTON, May 25.
(AP) Robert Rayburn, 18 year
old evangelist's son of Newton,
Kansas, won '.first place in the
National oratorical contest.
Rayburn thus won the right to
represent the United States In an
International oratorical contest.
Miss Ever Louise Conner, 18 year
old Chicago girl won second
place.-
Mellon Favorsi
Broad Revision
r Of Tax Svxtfim
s WASHINGTON, May zS.
(AP) Revision of the tax sys
tem to pt-nrlda a regular flow of
ii
MAKE
Mary Lou Thurston, beautiful
orphan, seeks a position In the
home ct wealthy Mrs. Margaret
Lorrixner. The istterg son, Tra-
vers, a shell-shocked war veteran,
enters. At sight of Mary Lou he
bcomea wildly excited, takes her
in hi aarma and calls her "De
light" and "wife." Later Mrs.
Lorrimer explains that Trsvers
haa mistaken Mary Lou for Da
light Harford, whom ha claims ha
married In England, but of whom
no record can be found. Mrs. Lor
rimer persuades Mary Lou to as
sume the role' of Delight to help
Travers regain his health. Travera
la, told that, as Delight was so
young at the time of her mar
riage and had since thought him
oeaa, they- must start all over
again. In her first encounter
with Travers Mary Lou plays her
part perfectly. Travers takes new
Interest In life. Mrs. Lorrimer
hopes he will fall In lore with
Mary Lou. Travers, believing
Larry Mitchell, Mary Lou's friend.
is in lore with her, reminds Mary
Lou that she Is still his wife. At
Christmas Travers lack of tha
holiday spirit causes Mary Lou to
call him Ingrown and selfish. He
tell her she is a changed Delight
out me giri he wants.
CIIAPTEB XXIV
"You speak your mind he
wwa ner, smiling wryly. -I guess
I're been pretty much of a fool.
There Isn't much room la this
world for dreamers . . " ha said.
Mary Lou squeexed his hand
hard a second and then released
ner own.-. - - -
"There's Iota of room tor
dreamers," aha told. him, ''but
they are doers as weUr Just
dreaming," said Mary Lou, "gets
yoa nownere."
Later she Joined him in a heavy
sweater, a green tarn and atout
boots over woolen stockings and
a very short skirt. And they
went out together m a snow flur
ry Into the north grove, where.
wits Henderson's held, they pick-
ea out a tree, a tail, beautifully
snapea msjestia nr.
Truth Harts
"It seems a shame to eut It
down." said Mary Lou, a little
sadly, but. atrer aU, It will be a
happy sort of death, with candles
burning and .people singing and
somewhere a star shining , . . to
remind ns." ,
Lorrimer said nothing. His
heart was sora and bruised from
the impact of her hard straight-
nung words. But he looked down
now into her moved, flushed face
and saw her eyes asradlant as tha
stars of which she spoke. Oh, she
had changed She was harder In
some way that he had to admit
was. fine, a hardness aa of dia
monds, yet she waa softer, more
easily touched by the more im
personal emotions. He could re
member that other Dellxht as
clinging and passionate one mo
ment and glittering with bravado
and gaiety the next. This girl had
gaiety, but a different kind: she
had a recklea scourage but no
bravado. . .
They tramped back to the house
together, the soft, dry snow sting
ing ! their eyes, tangling in Mary
Lon's escaping curia and thick on
her, long lashes. In the woods
revenue was suggested here by
Secretary Mellon.
In an address over tha Wash
ington Star Radio forum, the sec
retary of tha treasury said under
the present, system tha Income
fluctuates with the upward or
downward awing of business.
This is due. ha added, "to the
fact that wa rely for two-thirds
of eur tax'ftrenue on the Income
tax. which Is subject to sweep
ing variations." - j
Plumbers, Also
Nurses Invited
Here Next Year
Invitations to two .state organ
izations to coma to Salem next
year for their conventions were
wired recently by H. R. Craw
ford, president of the chamber of
commerce. The first went to Ed
O. Pratt at Bend. Pratt Is the lo
cal delegate to the Matser Plumbs
era association.
The second Invitation went last
night to Mrs. Mildred Lenoir, who
is in Eugene to attend the Oregon
State Graduate Nurses associa
tion conclave. Mrs. Lenoir repre
sents a group of, Salem nurses.
BELIEVE
there was a gray gloom: soft
uviv : ww & sea f a waaa vva w
a dove's breast, faintly lit with
the dreaming green of the living
firs, i Needles lay ander foot.
fragrant carpet. Overhead,
through bare branches and bran
ches set with cones, the sky was
a thick, veil of gray ... no wind
stirred i and their breath smoked
on the frosty air.
: A sense of well-being came to
him suddenly. Ha mads op his
mind to several things, soma of
which he disliked. The mere ex
perience of having reached deci
sions seemed somehow to giro him
a new vibrancy and strength. He
caught Mary Lou'g xnlttened
hand la his own. ,
"Come and run," he bade her.
"and get up an appetite for teal
Theyj reached the house, wet
and glowing and out of breath.
Mrs. Lorrimer heard their noisy
entrance and smiled. It was so
good toy hare noise In that house
again. ! .
At the library door Lorrimer
puuedJMary Lou back a moment.
"I'll sever admit." he whisper
ed: buti he waa laughing a Little
"that you were right about
number not things.. But, here and
there, you hit It. X I've snapped
out of It," be told her . , "and
. ..rm 'grateful! "-
. !' Not Actlaa
Her heart leaped attain. She'd
always liked him, always pitied
him, even when she had - been
most irritated and impatient with
aim. Lately both his spoken and
silent lore making had begun to
disturb her and her conscience
had started to ache a little. Three
hundred ia month and the loveliest
home, the best friend In the world
ail Very well, but she was tak
ing it all for a deception, for a
Ue's sake. And today there at-l.
the unrary door, her f rarrant
Cheek clbse to his shoulder and
his eyes iilaughlng amaslngly into
hers, with an expression she had
aerer seen in them before: today
sne was aware of him for the first
time as-t-a man. And aha waa a
little afraid. Not of him, but of
herself, j; '
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irforrunera casual announce
ment to'i his mother that he
thought he'd like to ao Into town
-by himself and for Christmas
shopping!! filled her with amaze
ment. It had been years since he
naa lert the grounds of Westwood.
Earlier he had occasionally gone
te New! York, much against his
wiu, to consult one nerve special
ist or ahother, accompanied by
Mrs. Lorrimer. But In recent
year he had not set foot In the
aiphaltl town save for rare visits
the dehtlst.
He refused to so to plays, con
certs, restaurants or tojthe homes
of friends. Every ao often hie
talor's man made the trip out and
measured jhlm for clothes and dis
played materials to his disinter
ested eyesj Haberdashery was or
dered by mail andtelephone. And
Dr. Mathews looked after his im
mediate! health. ' ' -
i Margaret ordered the car and
watched htm go without comment,
but to Mkry Lou her comments
were freqhent and mostly in the
form of j questions. Would he be
all right?;; Should she have let
him go aibne? What In the world
had got ih to hlmf
Mary Lou opined that perhaps
he had caught tha Christmas spir
it. She Ibad repeated their recent
important conversation to Mar
garet. She felt that she should;
that she should hold nothing back
from Lorrimer's mother. "Per
haps." sha ended, "I wasn't play
ing quite within bounds to speak
to him like that. But it just hop
ped out. tt had to!"
No mother, even the sanest and
most fair-minded, likes to hear
hey son's shortcomings and char
acter failures openly discussed.
nor ca nit entirely delight her to
learn that that earns son has re
ceived a vigorous verbal beating.
But all Mary Lou had thought
was so true and might prove so
helpful that Margaret conquered
her feeling of slightly Indignant
dismay and said Instantly:
f You were perfectly right; Poor
Travers Jl . It must have been a
bitter medicine!" -
And Mary Lou had been hon
est to the very last ditch. She
had eTexs repeated Lorrimer's re
minder of j'their "marriage? and
his confession of lore. - At the
one Mrs. Lorrimer had ' sighed
aloud; at :;ithe other, wisely re
frained from comment, appreciat
ing deeply jjthe girl's honesty and
respecting g the really painful-embarrassment
It must have been to
"" It-i ' !-
Armounce' the Opening of
"The Little Chapel"
Saturday, May
Open Hbusej All Day - Special
Musical! Program - Plan to
Visit the Park This Saturday
By FAITH
BALDWIN
as her te hare told t ha whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
That day, the day Trarers de
parted on his mysterious! errand,
passed, aa days will, but1 It held
boura of uneasiness for Margaret.
Shortly before dinner he returned
and his overcoat pockets' bulg
ed with small and large packages.
At dinner he seemed tired, i a
little drawn and nervous, but his
mood was genial and It pleased
him to be mysterious about his
sudden trip.
At dinner, too, he Informed his
mother that when she went to
New York on her charitable
Christmas mission he'd like to go
along, please. j
She nodded and said, simply,
"we'd lore to have you," but her
eyes were misted orer with ; a
sudden keen happiness, .almost
unbearable. She knew, ofcourse,
what had brought or . perhaps
forced him to this decision, but
the means didn't matter, it was
the end which counted. If only he
eould win back his normal Inter
est In other people .regain his one'
time spontaneous boyish generos
ity. As a boy he had been the
most generous being she had ever
anown. Eren as a child, a baby
almost, ho had been afflicted. In
his small way, by the woes of the
world, by the sorrows of less for
tunate childhoods than his own.
The Joy of Giving?
Later, alone with Marr Lou.
she reminded her, anxiously:
"But I Intend to go to the Vet
erans' hospital . , I didn't know
whether to tell him or not." i
"Don't." advised Marr Lou
slowly, "until you are . ready to
go. I had forgotten that plan. 1
think it might do him an enor
mous amount of good. Bat he'd
better not be permitted to brood
over it ahead of time."
So, a few dare before Christ
mas day, the three of them set
out early from Westwood house,
the big closed car packed with
boxes and bundles and baskets.
and were driven into town and; to
the various addresses tn the most
miserable -sections of the city.
ruary lou and Mrs. Lorrimer
carried little bundles when their
destinations were reached, the
chauffeur and Lorrimer ' strug
gling under those of bulkier aize
and weight. They went Into a
dozen wretched rooms, dark.
cramped and hideous with pover
ty ana aespair. And lntv those
rooms they brought, not only ma
terial things, but llrht and hone
and the fragrance of friendliness
without patronage.
(TO be continued tomorrow)
The Safety
Valve - -
Letters from
Statesman Readers '
PRATUM. Mar 25, fT th
Editor.) We farmers hare been
continually advised to trada at
home, and not to send to mall or
der houses in other states tor our
supplies, and we have been train
ed to do our trading in Salem.
Very few things are sent for that
can be bought in Salem, even It
the Salem price is slightly higher.
But how do the Salem' people re
turn the compliment T
We farmers are trylnar to sell
and do sell to some stores in Sa
lem a high grade, home grown po
tato of good size and excellent
quality tor less than one cent a
pound, sacked and delivered, day
or night. We farmers sadly need
the hard earned small amount of
cash we can obtain for eur pota
toes to pay the bills we owe ia
Salem. Within the next three
weeks practically all old potatoes
held by farmers in the Salem com
munity could be used, either for
consumption or seed, it Salem
people would demand home grown
potatoes, which are far superior
In quality to shipped in. Imma
ture California potatoes, which
sell tor about three times as
much. If each family la Salem
would order from their grocer one
sack of local grown potatoes.
which can be bought for one dol
lar at most of the stores, the
money would come right back to
Salem and many a bill long over
due would be paid.
But if Salem demands shipped
In potatoes at three times the
price, tha money will go south,
never to return, .
' , FRED DB VRIES.
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30th
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