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PAGG FOUR 4 t 1 1 "No.Favqr Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aws" From First Statesman, Maxell 28, 1851 1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. j. Charles A. Sreictrii, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Charles A. Spraccb -' - -!-.-' Editor-Manager .. Sheldon F. Sackett - ! . . - - Managing Editor The Associated Prea ia axclualTely entitled to the forjllc tton of all news dispatch credited to it or not otherwise credited in tola paper. : - V j 1 . ' 1 Pacific Coast Advertising: Representatives: Arthur W. Stypea, Inc Portland. 8evrtty fild .j San Francisco. Sharon Bid.: Lo Anselea, W. Pao. Bid . ' Eastern Advertising EeDresentativea: r Ford-Paraons-Stecher. Inc," New York. 171 ftfadlsoa At. I Chicago 80 N Michigan Ara. , Enttrtd at the Postoffice at SaUm, Oregon, as Second-Close Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Buetneet c S1S Commercial street. SUBSCRIPTION BATES; Uatl Subscription Rates, fn Advance WlUtln Oregoa : a.n.r I Ha fid Mats: S Uo. I LIS: C Mo. t2.lt; 1 Elsewhere 50 cent per Ua4 or 5.0 lor 1 year In advaaee. By City Carrier: 4 cent a month: 15.00 a year In advance, Copy 2 cent On trains and Newa Stands S cent, j Forty Years a rIS observed in the papers that' N. A. LeachJ vice president of Kerr-Gifford company, grain buyers, of Portland, is retiring after 40 years in the grain business. The news item gives one pause. Forty years in the grain business. An ordinary man would go to pieces with two or three years of wneat Duying. jforty years, mime i u; uu whb as trying probably as any in the history of the trade since Joseph put over the first corner in Egypt some milleniums ago.: .' " J i We wonder if the public realizes the exactions which be ing a grain buyer makes on the nervous system of a man. He deals with farmers, and farmers are intensely and vitally interested irf thfrprke of grain. They inquire two or three times a day when the market is "hot". They haunt the ware house offices if they are holding their crop. They exude deep gloom if the markets are falling; they tread on top of the world if the markets are rising. Your grain buyer must be imperturbable, dealing not with hopes and fears but with actual figures as they are chalked on the question boards. But it is hard to be unaffected when farmers see their fate written in the shifting prices of the grain exchanges. Then he must deal with millers and exporters, those who buy from him. He must put up with their wheedling insist ence on lower prices. He must learn what is? behind their poker faces. He must know how to interpret a cabled in quiry, whether it is a firm bid or just a feint'and play for a price. He knows what the worries of shipping are; car blockades, elevator congestions, danger of smut, skyrocket ing charter rates when the demand runs strong. He knows the worries of contracting wheat on a big scale and then placing it with foreign buyers. He knows the danger when elevators are full and the foreigners hold off buying and the price starts sagging. I J ? Forty years a grain buyer. Let's see. That would start with 1891 and carry through the panic of 1893 when wheat ' was bought at interior points for around 25 cents a bushel. It would touch 1897 when prices took a big spurt. San Fran cisco was a big grain market then; Portland was of lesser importance. Easy years until the Letter corner on wheat f After that normal trading for a decade and longer. Steady business was worked with the Orient. China and Japan were consistent purchasers of wheat and flour, chiefly flour in those days, later on. wheat for their own mills to grind. Then the opening of the Panama canal in 1914 which shortened the time on the shipments to Europe; the great slide in the canal. Then wartime, and food ships blown sky ward by submarines. The cry for food; Hooverizing; the U. S. food administration. After the war, price collapse, no market; a decade of sullen farmers trying co-operative mar keting, calling for political panaceas. Finally the f armlward and the wreck of the wheat market with prices getting back to the depths of the 1890's. The federal financed grain cor poration steps into the picture complicating the problem for a concern with world-wide ramifications in the wheat trade, ; f No" man with a jumpy heart could survive the last forty years of wheat trading. And a man who has lived that long surely has earned retirement. We do not know Mr. Leach, but we wish him well. He should enjoy his vacation from cablegram and telegrams and phone calls; from ocean freight rates and fluctuating prices and booms and panics ; Yrom the bogey of the Mco-op" and the constant fear of price Bags. He should have the satisfaction which every trader desires of seeing oncea again a healthy, normal,' free market with the farmers, buyers, exporters, and millers all making fair money. Perhaps that will be his in heaven. f-l - - j '. I ; A Painful Mistake j BEND, Ore., Jane 25. (To the Editor.) There la a (: piece of property cross the alley from me in this city. It is x in a very Insanitary condition. This property belongs to the state of Oregon. A city official here claims It Is impossible to . have same cleaned op. Are properties of the) state of Oregon responsible for Insanitary conditions, and are they i tubject to a lien for clean-up? & L.A.W.N. No. Write to the State The above is taken from the usually well informed Port land Oregonian. The fact is that the state board of health lias its office in Portland, for no good reason so far as is knejwn except the' desire of the secretary to live in Portland. T f The mistake of the Oregonian is a natural one, and is -duplicated thousands of times by people who would expect important board and commissions to be located where the atate capital is. Letters come to Salem by the hundreds which have to he sent dawn tn PnrfT artrl TarTJt - - x. wic vumo w Salem expecting to transact business with these divisions of government, only to learn they have to go 52 miles farther and hunt around the city of Portland to locate the particular off ice they seek. r j i : L v Salem la walcino nn tn triA aitnaffvn onl eAL-a 4--. v-.. located here the branches of iuug ni vne seai governmeni. Ends Jury 'liuti Marion Pniltltv trrnnA i v - nwiutiuun was given le- Lt P Jud,Skipworth of Eugene who said it was dead as a nwmaM t.. j . .. . a "j i "4VC. bouse, etc. Its indictment of Valid AnH in thia cu. . vrui tu nuw noias xnat the jury pad no legal standing whatsoever, no more so than if seven Person fmm unn'.. t u , , . u " Beveu indicta c it V - The marathon grand jury met on and off for several ninths sniff ing trails. It hired an accountant at county S ifdimedia n eive investigation with i?Un gible results save the Luper indictment, now declared void ' 1 A ?e.w F?nd J,ury hould be convened and the Luner matter laid before it Even If the original hounds JSEf t&t this is of suf imrtSce to be nelbLa neW lS rnd Jry. The prosecuting Z tornev should nrpsrt th tv. m r, . cision - t . Daily and year 14.04,' Per Wheat Buyer Board of Health, Salem, Ore. government which properly be- ; Walkathon lnn 1 i " uuk iiicxvianan naa iailed Bhea Luper was attacked as in- li . r .. CM tts 111 u assemme and pretend i-v me kiouu jury ior meir . ..... Mental Growth C. C. DAFER. M. D. sfarion Co. Health DeoC. ZJfc physical growth, mental development or growth Is not a thlnr that starts at one or two years 1 1 b e- rlns at blrtn. It reaches ' Its maximum some time be fore the physi cal growth has reached its maxim cm. To be sure a per son learns a great tn a ,n y thin as after the age! of if or 19 years but his capacity for learning has reached Its Sr. a a Pr height by tna time. Mental growth Is much more rapid at all times than phy sical growth, because of the fact that the nervous system Is the best developed of any of the or gans at birth and this develop ment continues at a rapid rate for a time. . ! f An infant soon learns the sound of Its mother's .voiee. While not able to understand words as such he does Interpret meaning by the tone of the voice. He may soon learn that he can eet sttention by crying. These are partially mental processes. At sic months a normal baby utters sounds which are the forerunner of speech later. . . Emotional reactions are very closely bound up In the mental growth of any child. Whether a child is tp be shy. stubborn, sly. truthful, domineering or Quarrel some will often depend to a, great. extent on the manner In which the child Is treated by adults or other children, rather than inher itance. Such being the case, par ents should realise that much un- happiness and Inability to cope with the conditions ot adult life can be the result of some unfor tunate early environment. Cor recting such maladjustments con stitutes one of the functions of the modern movement called mental hygiene. Habit formation la closely re lated to mental life la point of time. While a child Is acquiring habits fundamental to later adult life he is also acquiring speech, mechanical skill and intellectual qualities. Proper adjustment of all these developments determine to a largo extent the mental life of any child in later adult life. Wht hlth problem hare von I If the above article raises an? question in your mind, write that question oat and send it either to The Statesman or the Marion county department ot health. The answer will appear in this eolama. Name should be signed, bet will not be need in the saner. Yesterdays ... Of Old Salem - Town Talk from The State man of Eartler Days June 23, 1906 Bids will be received by the city recorder until July S for erection of two bridges across Mill creek, one on State between 18th and 19th. and the other on 25th between State- and Ferry. Four more boys,.' Dan J. Fry Jr., Leland Hendricks, Cecil Ab bott and Altle Beck have gone to attend the Boys' club camp at Turner. Twenty-two boys are there now. All debts of the high school student body have been wiped out. and in future effort will be made to keep affairs of the group on a strictly cash basis.: Jane 23, 1921 Thirty-two youths at the atate training school passed the state eighth grade examinations a few days ago. A change in the postmastership in Salem is expected to come in August, when term of August Hnckestein, incumbent, expires. Ordinance to place license upon soft drinks may be introduced in the city council soon. Yesterday statesman reporters asked this question : "Do you think President Hall at the Uni versity of Oregon and President Kerr at Oregon State college will have to go before there will be harmony in higher education in Oregon?" Jar It. Hewitt- -Hlf Uw.1 clerk: "Eventually it will come to woo yiwiueui, x presume. Tne state board would need superin tendents ot each school but poli cies couia be determined by one well-paid man." ' . . Mrs. JT. M. Devera, housewife: I believe harmonw in htrhAr tun cation circles may be brought about only by the removal of one head. Dr. Kerr, or Dr. HaU, or bj iua removal or bout," . r w C. Eantner, minister: "I feel that measures should be tak en to bring about a more kindly feeling between the two state in stitutions, without going to such an extreme as to remove those twe heads." Revs Penrose, O. 8. C. student: Yes, I suppose that they will botlx have to go hut of course X beUeve that President Kerr is the ideal president for the two schools." Frank Doollttle, proprietor ser vice station: "It doesn't seem that It ought to be so, but I wouldn't doubt but that both will hare to go. It seems there is more or less Jealousy from the lowest to the highest ranks in the schools over the Institutions." Daily Thought "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser todsy than he was yesterday." Abraham Lin cola. . , New Views HERE'S HOW- "A meo i KW tfXHVX si COfiar l ? r sciGtmrt soiutioki on. eemoYL . -s 3 art - - "n i jt t mm tj : Dtscov&ceo" . " fll, i tar- . turn mrmi Tomorrow r IJghtiiing BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS- Non risible Bavennat. V (Continuing, from yesterday's issue T. T. Goer's account ot his campaign In Ohio In 1901, while he was governor ot Oregon:) "My wife and I spent Monday of the last weekr of the campaign ia Cleveland as the guests of Myron T. Herrick, afterward governor of Ohio (and later minister to France), and in the evening visited the city of Ravenna, some 90 miles south ot Cleveland, where Governor Nash and I ad dressed a meeting whoso propor tions fully sustained Ohio's repu tation for not 'doing poUtlcs' by halves. "Upon arriving at Ravenna, a committee met me at the train. Governor Nash having gone there early in the day to look after his local fences. After reaching the hotel, the chairman said he wanted to put me on my guard as to a characteristic ot the people ot his town. 1 "a m "a " 'They always pay the best of attention to a public speaker and appreciate his coming. You . will have a crowded house; but they never give any demonstration of approval, such as clapping of hands, stamping of feet, etc. We account for It to outsiders by claiming that our people are high ly intellectual,' said he, with a twinkle in his eye, 'but those not used to their ways are likely to misconstrue their' attitude. He said that when Senator Allison ot , Iowa was there the year before. he was greatly incensed at what he termed the coldness of the Ravenna people and declared he would never hold a meeting there again. I- S S . : When I returned , to Colum bia after the campaign had clos ed. Chairman Dick, In talking - over the situation, inquired what kind of a meeting I had had at Ravenna. - After I told him ft was a 'stem-winder and a great suc cess In every way, he said he had been a little afraid of it,, since the people there were noted for their lack of enthusiasm in pub-J lie i meetings. Chairman Dick was then a member ot the lower house ot congress and Ravenna was In his district. While on this subject he told me this story: "Fifty years before, when Tom Corwin was In his prime as . a famous stump speaker and ora torand wit he attended a meeting at Ravenna. After re turning to his home in Cincinna ti, while relating some ot his campaign experiences, in the state, he said: 'Ravenna, though, is the d -et place yet Why, un there they are so long faced that they open their political meetings with prayer and crose by singing the Doxology. HAS PLAN Matthew Woll (above), acting president of the Commission on industrial Inquiry of the National Civic Federation and Tiee-president ef the America Federation el Labor,. has come forward with a Slan to meet the five-year plan ef eviet Russia. Woll says: "We need, for example, to meet ths cold-oloeded Communist five-yea: plan with, a warm-blooded ten-year plan of democratic idealism woven into the pattern of our national - ; - fahde.' f i o - - ' J aVslvJUifr.-n' -J-TA vw.'iafcBawatstsTalsa By EPSON mm aji iMCajAT avAmAiti . . ,rt povifrOHit Ponosc,3- oaa SIJ-4 'noueo -ma- uoott com wom ut4civ- smscua? Storms aid Farmers I "I spoke there last week to a crowded house and the prospects for a successful meeting could not have been hotter. But I had spo ken for fully half an hour with" out bringing oat any applause or smile whatever. This was unus ual, so I thought I would wake tbem up by telUng a story. I told one of the best I knew, and told it as well as I could; it tell periectiy flat. There was jwjt a hand-clap nor a smite. I went on for another 20 minutes with out any response from the audi ence other than the very best at tention. At this point I thought wouia try another story on them. So Z selected one of my oest and did my utmost to tell it well; but it was as great a fail ure as the first mm " 'This made me mad, and X really cut my speech short on ac count of the duUness of the peo ple or their stupidity, or inca pacity or something but I de cided to give them just one more story and see what It would do. Now, of course, I know I have some reputation as a story-teller, and I felt a degree of personal pride in making I an effort to rouse that audience.- I closed with a story that would cause the dead to rise up and laugh, and used whatever art I possessed in relating It well, but, do you ktrow, there was not the slightest indication in any quarter of mirth no applause nor demonstration of any kind. Not even a smile. "'So the meeting was ad journed. ' Afterwards several ot the leading men of the city gath ered around me, and one of them, speaking to the others, it seemed, said: H rw '"Corwin, that was one of the best speeches I ever heard. It was logical, eloquent, unanswer able aod right to the point Just what we needed here. And do you know, Corwin, your stories why, when yon told that last one, I came mighty near laughing right out loud!' " W If T. T. Geer were yet in the flesh, he would appreciate the inquiry ' as to whether he was bragging; - leaving the inference that he was a better story teller, or had a better stock ot stories than the great Tom Corwin or was it that the non risible Raven naites had recently reformed; or that the generation that had ris en up after Corwln's time had de veloped a talent tor risibility? V But Geer himself was a. capi tal story teller, and his stock from ont of the pioneer , and breexy west was perhaps fresher than the Ohio stock. Hay be, too, he did not adhere strictly to the rule said to have been laid down by Abraham Lincoln tor a good speech: "Make It neither too long nor too broad; and followed something after the famous "Ore gon style of the pioneer: times,, when they were prone to call a spade a spade and a hoe a hoe, and not an agricultural imple ment V Mr. Geer was Oregon's ' great est campaign, orator. He can vassed the entire state in more political contests than any other man; t traveled more miles in these tours than was ever nego tiated by any other men, and made his way around in more ways; on toot, on horseback, by horse ' drawn rigs, by boat ,and stage and bus, and finaUy by au tomobile; though most -ot his journeylhgs were before this modern means was .much used, or would have been possible by the excuses for roads ot the time; or rather lack of roads. The Oregon Historical society, in December, 1899, passed a res olution and appointed committees to locate the sites of old Fort Clatsop of Lewis and Clark, Fort Astoria of the Astorlans,- and the Champoeg meeting of May 2, 1943, where the provisional gov ernment was authorised. The lat ter task was assigned to T. T. Geer. - So, on May 1, 1900. Mr. Geer. then governor of Oregon, mount ed his trusty bicycle and rode to the home ot F. X. Mathlea, some 30 miles away, and three miles from Champoeg. - Of course, he took the bicycle path, built from public subscriptions, mostly by Salem bicycle fans. - Do you, dear reader, remember It? - Marks of it exist now. It should tie rebuilt and improved, to accommodate both bicycle riders and toot pas- MAKE it CHAPTER Xa, She pulled away or tried to. She said, with a forced cote of lightness. "I am Diana HackeC, Z think you must be mistaken. 'No. You're Delight Harford,' he said slowly. "I know you. Yon couldn't be anyone else. Why do you deny it? Don't you know me? Travers Lorrlmer? You must know me. She said, immediately. "I never saw you before In my life, Mr. Itorrimer, and, turning to Mary. Lou, she asked, "Can't you explain to your friend that he is mistaken! I'm sorry to give so much, trouble," she said again. "But it 1 could get help to get baek to town " Lorrlmer slipped his hand down her arm, took her hand in his. turned it - i Than Seal Bins "You wear my ring!" said Lor rlmer. -. . I Dellght knew a moment of bit ter anger directed against her self. Of course she had worn it unthinkingly. She always wore it She had fancied that now and then it brought her luck. The seal ring. His. !. In that Instant she surrendered. "Lorry," she said weakly, ap- peailngly. He stepped back from her. his face black with frowning conster nation. But ... if this was De light who was .. .? "If you are Delight" he said Slowly, "who who is she?" He turned to Mary Lou, but Mary lqu was not there. At the moment when Lorrlmer had been engrossed in the other girl, when he had said you wear my ring," in the little pause that followed, she had slipped away, as fast as a deer, on feet of panic, and was running swiftly to the house by the shortest route. . When she got there, out ot areata, half sobbing, going in by ine dsck way, to the amazement of the servants, she flew to her own room. Mrs. Lorrlmer and Pe ter and perhaps some of the oth ers would be on their way to Lor rlmer now. She could escape them all; , she would simply have to hurry .and fling a few things in a bag, take what money she had in cash, and go out of Westwood at the farthest gate, the gate lead- sengers avoiding the dangers ot automobile travel. Major Doolittle Leaps to Safety When Wing Torn EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., June 24. -(AP) Major James H. "Jim my" Doolittle. formerlv an mr stunter of . the armv air corns. leaped to safety late Tuesday when fabric torn lonA fmm thm. wines of his nlana vhlln at an Indicated speed of 23 S miles an nour. Doolittle was not in jured. The plane was badly dam aged. Doolittle was putting the plane, one of his own design with which he had hoped to breai the present record, for land nlinoa f Pi Ai evil speed tests at Curtiss-Stelhberg near nere. MORTGAGES . Every good investor lias some mortgages HAWKINS fit ROBERTS, Inc SECOND FLOOR, OREGON BUIIJ)IN(ALEJI . BELIEVE inar out of the north woods. She couldn't stay. She couldn't lace it, face his disgust, his hat red. All over now. The lost was found: there was happiness ahead for ' these two. Whatever adjustments wero to be made, they must make them without her .They were man and wife. She was nobody. Just a girl who had been hired to play a rote ana who had wrecked her own happi ness in the playing. Her face was burning hot her hands and feet ley. but her brain worked steadUy, swif tly, clearly. She took only the barest neces sities. The nretty things that Mar garet had given her, she would have to leave them benma oer, start all over again. .She- drew Lorry's sapphire from her finger and laid it on her bureau, .sne picked up an envelope and a pen cil and wrote across it: "Forgive me. I had to go this way." Then she was ready. One last look about the room, one terri ble temptation to east herself on the bed and yield herself up to sick weeping, a temptation she conquered, and then she naa spea down the back stairs and througn the' servants' quarters like a flash of light .1 : . Most of them had gone by now to give what help they could to the old butler. Only the cook. looking up from the table, at which she ' was standing, said "Miss Delight?" la a 1 tone of stricken inquiry. She reached the woods and went through them, stumbling. catching her tweed frock in un dergrowth, half bund but wholly determined. She came out of the far gate and waited there a mo ment To her complete surprise. a roadster going past, slowly. stopped and someone hailed her. It was Jenny Wynne. "Delight!" called Jenny. No . time to think. Mary Lou climbed in and slam med the door. .1 "Jenny, help me! Jenny, you must help me!" she cried. "Drive me to the station not Wee tm 111. but the Northmlll station and as fast as you ean! Please! Please!' Jenny Wynne gave one look at the small distraught face, threw In her gear without a word, and the car . slid off smoothly, gath ering speed. "Tell me, she said quietly, what has - hannened. I'm your friend and you know It And I'm absolutely at your service." - True Friendship As they went toward Northmlll Mary. Lou told her the truth In short, choked sentences. Jenny, her hands steady on . the wheel. listened and tried to understand. No time now for detailed explana tions, for exclamations and ques tions. ! "Larry knew, of course, all along. It was he who gave me the advertisement to read. I always hated your not knowing, Jenny, after we became such cIobo friends. Now you know." " "Yes. What are you going to do?" said Jenny, and added. Mary Lou?" I "I'm going to town. To Oak- dale, I suppose I have to get away. From all of them.-1 precipitated this on them. I didn't mean to; I meant to persuade Mrs. Lorrlmer to see Delight Harford, to realise INVESTMENTS A well balanced and diversified invest ment plan must include some prime first mortgages. And during the past 1 8 months those mortgages have beer) many an investor's "anchor to wind ward." - . . ' We can supply you splendid first mort gages in varying amounts On improved local properties. Maturities range from 3 to .5 years and interest: return Is 8ub stantially good. For mfoimaatiori, call, or phono '4100 -V.:' : By FAITH BALDWIN - r! that it was the only decent thing to do, that she owed it to her and to Lorry to clear up this whole mistaken situation." j "If you go to Oakdale, aaid Jenny, "they'll find you.' ) Mary Lou said nothing. The Northmlll station was coming in to view. - ; h "Have you money?" asked Jen ny, practically. j "Yea. Plenty. Oh, Jenny, am I a coward, not to see this through?" ! j! .- ' : 'No." Jenny stopped the car at the station, put her arms about the other girl and kissed her. "No ' you're a brick. I ldve you. So does JLiorry. .Keep In touch with lus Mary Lou. Promise" Mary Lou shook her head "Not , now. ; Later perhaps." she sw' j ' i !'! , il hi 'A11 right. It's up to you. But if you ever need anything, want anything, you've Larry and me. Remember that And we won't give, you away. If you want to stoy Incognito we'll r e s p e ct that Believe me." "Of course oh, bless you. Jenny, you're heavenly kind jto me." . h ' . s ' ' t i ' t 1 If i- She heard the whistle of the train up the track, clung to Jenny a moment, a wet cheek araiast her own, said, choked: A Complicated Situation j ; "I'll never forget all you've been to me, Jenny, Please don't tell them' you saw me. Tell Larry but no one else. Please don't tell them where you took me. "All right." aaid Jenny. j A few moments later she saw the train pull out, saw the small. beseeching face at the window and waved. Then she sat there' a moment ia the car, deep la be wildered, tangled and amazed thought 1 Whatever had happened she was Mary Lou's. friend. She loved her, under any name. The whole situation was too complica ted. She'd see Larry, "talk It over wth him. It was perfectly plain; to Jenny" that 1 Mary Lou was in. love with Lorrlmer and he with her. She despised this other un known girl who had come out of the blue in order to take what was probably her rightful place-. But the real Delight Harford had no friend In Jenny, I 1 1 Meantime, back at Westwood, house: . 1 : '1 ' ! ' ; "Why where Is she? She was here a minute ago," said Lor rlmer blankly. M ! Delight said nothing. She had seen Mary Lou go; had withheld an Impulse to call her back. The . truth was out anyway. If the girl felt safer in flight, then it was kinder not to speak. Lorrlmer stepped away, took his head in his hands. I T Tn 11 of Via frnlnv mmA " Vim said, bewildered, rather tragic- alljr. , '. -. .; i ! fJ "No, listen to me. Lorry. It's aU quite simple. That girl came to your house to get a Job. You saw her, mistook , her for me. Your condition was such that your mother dared not tell you the truth. She has simply preten ded to be Delight Harford. That's all , ; "But but "I think," said Delight clearly. that I see your mother coming. Lorry." ! M (To be continued tomorrow) j , INSURANCE i i 1 ' ' ,