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PAGE FOUR Tha OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning. October 16, 1921 1 "Ate Fttvor Swav U; M Fear Shall Awe" Ffora First Statesman, March 23, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sfracuk, Sheldok" F. Sackktt, Publither e i Chables A. Spsacux - - - Editor-Manager Sheldom F. Sackett - - - - Managing EdUor - ' Member of the Associated Press - The Aaaoctated Preas U exclulvly entitled te thauaa CorwbUea ttsVef aTosws dlspatebM credited to tt or not othwwlaa redltd In thi par- '- ,' : Pacific Coast Advertising; Representatives: ' Arthur W. Stirpes. Inc.. Portland, Swrttv f. . San Fraaciace. Sharon pid. ; Los Angeles. W. Pae. Bll Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Partona-Stichar. Itwt, New fork. S7I MaSIaoa At,; Chicago, 36 N Mlohlgmn Ave.. ' Altered of the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon. a$ Stcond-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Vuntnese office, SIS S. Commercial Street. , ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: , Mad Subscription tPV r7iSt Sunday I Mo. SO cents; J Wo. 11.15; Mo. lZ.z. 1 year, .u. lEewftrJ iSeenta par' Mo or $. for 1 rr l advance. BV City Carrier: cents a month; IS.OS a roar to advance Per Copy S cents. On trains and News Stands cents. . j-, t Economy in w-rTTT?vwvi?.p fria mihippt Wcity council it does come up there occasionallythe , wrath of the aldermen usually aescenas on iwu puuy sterns: $1500 for the airport and $8000 for the county health unit The real Qoliaths -WMcn nave iorcea oaiem ity gu; .. j. iyjoo .til nnnni!lv -fitTi fimM tn state s mill' ernmenfc costs wn age, two times the county's, are uie city pwiii-ts ucna nwv, .,... - - - - ,'fAas' r-n tcoo and hpWPT DOnQS. Take the police department : The monthly payroll for 1923 shows there were then ten men on the force including the chief and the aggregate payroll was $1260. The October. !. 1931. approved by the 'Salem city council shows 19 men and the police matron on tne lorce ana w aKKrcjjaw; o,r.i! eoaas: r,r- far mnw than double thei 1923 costs. Consider the fire department; A typical payroll for a month in 1923 hows 20 men including the chief receiving pay from the city of $2515 for tne moncn. ine vciouer, isoi, fire department payroll approved by the city council was slightly over $6000, nearly two and one-half times as much as in 1923! , ! While these two department payrolls were more than doubling the population of Salem .increased from approxi mately 20,000 to 26,255 or only 30 per cent! j The bridge and sanitary sewer bonds in 1932 will re quire interest and principal payments totalling $70,350, four mills on all real property in the city. No budgeteer whether he be Alderman O'Hara or the governor himself can squeeze out of this heavy levy, which is additional to the sewer re funding issue, two groups of municipal refunding bonds, two fire department series of bonds, incinerator bonds and street intersection bonds. ' ! , This newspaper has long felt that both the fire depart ments and the police departments of city government here are too expensive for the size of the city. Either there should Be fewer men at work at the same wage now paid or lower wages for the men now employed. There exists no valid ar gument to prove to us that increases of 100 to 150 per cent in monthly salary payments in these department 'has been justified by Salem's growth in the last eight years. ; , As for the heavy debt charges for bridges and sewers, the city must pay and pay andpayJ Interest charges of $52,-1 T10 for 1932 exclusive of all tariff paid on Bancroft bonds, mean .three mills on all real property in the city. In the fu ture Salem would be wiser to adopt a pay-a-it grows policy ; avoiding 20-year millstones on taxpayers. The United States Must Lead mHE United States, more world-conscious than it has been X in a decade oecause nunareas oi ioreign loans xiave soured, is prone to overdue its anxiety about the other na tions of the world and to think its own economic health will never be recovered until every other nation is fit as a fiddle. While it cannot be gainsaid that a restored world trade will be of immeasurable assistance to our own recovery, it must be remembered that.this nation enjoyed great economic advance while Europe still labored with the headaches of the war. We were booming right along, for example, when France occupied the Ruhr and the war debt question which Mr. r Young was supposed to have straightened out in 1927 ham pered but little our steady march on prosperity's road. America's great prosperity has Always come from the 90 per cent of business done within our own confines. Our natural resources are sojii versified, our, mechanical genius is so varied and so developed, bur people are so versatile, that in large degree our home market alone will make us pros perous. To think that better business days here must await'quite general world recovery terrifies observers. If Hitler would gain power and demand partial return of Germany's colon ies; if Hungary continues to seek her lost lands; if Russia involves her&elf in China's quarrel with Japan ; if Australia, f debt-ridden collapses into the over-taxed areas of Mother . England; if Gandhi continues to tie-up Great Britain's tex tile trade by an independence cry which will not down; if all Europe welters in a mess of suspicion shown in tariffs, arm aments, reprisals and guilt debts the outcome of such even tualities af right the present-day . business men. : The United States cannot be smug, complacent.and self centered in times of such world distress. ; She must under stand the causes of. world collapse, &he must render such in telligent aid as can be given Jbut just as one looks to the in dividual to be first his own saviour, so too this nation's best contribution to world recovery will be to gt our own house in good order. Two years of deflating the new era age, two years of headaches after the wild days and nights which ac companied our gold-crust prosperity, have given us time to resume normal progress as the greatest economic nation in the world. The United States can and will lead, rather than follow, the rest of the world back to restored economic bal Blithe Days in Fall i W 4TT U. a.1 j i . . . i . . . . Iwxjuu iws uuiue xo uie vauey, noi me soDcr, aecaymg days .m which are harbingers of decay, but glo wing, blithe days uK in me air ana tne most gorgeous red leaves the eye eyer beheld. Nature, sly old girl, has a viay of decorating herself to outdo the wisest vampire; While we mortals were scurrying around with summer's last crops, and kiddies school books, the last swim and the final trip to the coast Nature was doing things with the cheeks of the apples, the lacy leaf hands of the trees, the lavish tresses of the vine ma ples. Before we knew it, though the process had gone on be fore our very eyes. Fall was here, a ravishing beauty I ? SOmf Pf, i&U U drear eaon.j JFor very soon now the curtain will Ibe run down. Nature' great drama is to have the Inescapable denouement of death. But to ns -;5aftJSa3fnr S??nF ld ePmer hav been growing penods and the joy of today haa been to sea the progress from the day before. But in fall, f ruiUon is at hand. The blos som has become the fruit; the green of newness has become the richer tone of maturity. Fall is arrival The loveliness of experience has given poise to the scene we now behold. r ir7Jl.iOS't01t J0"41 Meea flnf muck ada to tho high cost of Kingsleys execution. It should nw remark oa th lnexeensive ndrthright political heverls .t S. eS?J T a?i ir! the City Budget of economy 13 mentioned in the - - - - - - , and nearly double the school s, fii-A Hnartnient and 15 rm- How Cities Dispose of ; Sewage I By C. C. DAUER. M.D, Marion County Dept. of Health One 0t the most: expensive jdu ties ot the tnodern cities Is to: cet rid of the sewage In such rar that it will do no k rm. j la g e a c a 11 the sewass Is eon due t e d I Into some neHhoor- 1ns bod r o! swa ter. If la in ta the water motion! the sewage ui (car ried away and greatlr diluted. Thus in a snort time the water purifies Itself so that , even: ithe most carefulan" lvla falls ! tn Dr. o. o. ptM show pollution. If, however, the sewage Is con ducted Into a body of standing: water without marked currents. the water becomes. polluted and may prove a source of great dan ger. Chicago foand this out to her cost when she tried to dump sew age into one part of Lake Michi gan and take drinking water from another. She had to spend about 940.000.000 in order to build a drainage canal deep i enough so that the ulrty : Chicago river j into which the sewage I pours, would flow toward the Mississippi river instead of toward the lake. : Protests Raised" Within recent rears strong pro tests have been made by other cities ' along the ; Great lakes against the use of so much wat&r from the if 'te, to flush out jthe Chicago river, so much being di verted that the level of the waiter of all the lakes has been lowered. Chicago now most spend millions to revise her sewage system, i On the seacoast.- especially where there are strong tides; the difficulties of disposing of sdwige are . reduced . to a minimum. In some coast cities, such as Boston, part of the sewage is held . bck in reservoirs until strong outgoing tidal currents i have develoijed. Before the turn of tile tide the sewage has been carried soi far that it has become mixed wjthj an enormous- body of ocean 'water and has become harmless. - These cities do 'not get their water supply from; the ocean t so there is no dangt." of getting icon taminated water that' has been - n . . 'i i pouuiea oy i"eir own sewage Yesterdays ... Of Old Salem1 Town Talks from The State-! man of KarUer Days October 16.1006 Maximum rates to be charged for water within the city of Salem as set down In, a proposed : ity ordinance would be from 50 to 90 cents a month, according to jthe size of the dwelling in .which the water is consumed; Oregon Agricultural college has his- the largest attendance in its' tory, 655 students. Indications point to an enrollment as heavy? as 800 during the school year. OAKLAND. The threatened lockout In the building; trades: in this city began yesterday. There seems no possibility ot settlement of the mill men's strike which be gan two weeks ago.. October 16, 1921 . Justice Henry L, Benson of Oregon supreme court died 12:15 o'clock this moriflng at the at his home on North Summer' street. He was 67 years old. He came Oregon in 1880 from his native state, California. CHICAGO. More than h41C a million American railroad j men were yesterday ordered to Initiate 30, while a strike on other unions whose membership brings the total to about two! mil- lions, announced unofficially: that they were prepared to follow: stilt. EUGENE. President William Sproule declared here; yesterday that he Is hopeful that the South ern Pacific will nott be involved; in the railroad strike on October 0. PORTLAND. Itrfrs. Ercel Itay of Salem won the Oregon Wom en's state golf championship! yes-' teraay. Dr. o. F. Willing of this city defeated Ercel Ray of Salem s ana z. 1 j New Viewj "Do you think Capon will ibe found guilty of federal law viola tion and sentenced to : prlsont" This question was asked yoster day by Statesman reporters. Mrs. Rue Dnurer. hoiue male; "I think he wIU be found guilty. dui i aoubt it be Is punished' Kniil Backxnan, barber: '"No. It seems they let him slip by all the time." ;. .1- T i ... . . ; 1 J . i f ..- Sergeant Eader, TJ. S. army eruiting officer: "I don't know, he's got a lot back of himf j - Florence Bnodarniss, Rlckreallr "Yes; but don't ask me why," j I. L. McAdaraa, Salen's stroo- onwr: "I think he. ought .to be found guilty.'7 , , Daily Thought "The highest and most loftv trees have the most reason to dread the thunder." f!hrl Rollin. -j - SCIO. Oct. 15 William f Uncle Billrl Wilson, f ninn Mr firmF near Scio and for more than 4 0 years : s member of tae Masonic lodr at Jf f riAn , tiaa hn ill at bis 1 f arat home for several uays, oeing confined te Us most ot the time. room . HERE'S HOW r Cmp k OU- 'I mFm4 Cm. WMrpa lUwrii rWtPUyfw HJf-W HWImi l i nil G'eea' Mere OeV Tomorrow: "Vest BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Grandma Northern dead: Associated Press dispatches told of the death at Monteaano, Wash., of Mrs. William Moore on Oct. 7th, at over 100 years of age, recording1 the fact that she was born near Salem, Oregon, S Readers of this column will re call the article In the Issue of Aug. 26. giving facts of the life of that historical character. The oc casion was the celebration of her birthday ; at Montesano, when she reached century mark, July 26, 1821. w - Her father was Joseph La rin ger, one of the French Canadians who after serving the. Hudson's Bay company as hunters, trappers and boatmen retired to the French prairie district, of which old Champ oeg became the leading trading point. Her mother was a Spokane Indian. Her; name was Josephine, and she had seven brothers and- a sister. - i. - V When she was 20, she was mar ried to Louis Bernler, and after his death to Cyril Richer . Of these two unions eight children were born. .Four, three sons and a, daughter, are still living, and. there are ntno living grandchil dren, five great grandchildren and three great great -grandchildren. After the death of Richey she married Andrew Northern In the Willamette valley and they went to I Montesano in 1883, and 49 years later she married Wil liam. Moore, now 84, who sur vives tier. I - V Frances Bernler, no doubt fath er of her first husband, voted for the provisional government May 2, 1843, at the famous Champoeg meeting. 1 His donation, - claim was about two and a naif miles south east of St. Paul. Members of the Lavlguerj family, no doubt broth ers or nephews of the century old womarn, had a sawmill in the St. Paul section in pioneer times. How was the monument located that Is supposed to mark the 1 . '.. .. - - : ' : ;; j Poultry farmers now optimistic j Reports regarding Poultry ratemg (the nation's third largest agricul tural enterprise) indicate profits are being made by fanners whosf flocks are fed and managed prop erly. One of tho Important dkisions of the 21st Annual Pacifia Interna ti5nal livestock Exposition to bf held at Portland, October 24-81 ii the Poultry Show. Every farmer Interested In Pool try should attend this year's Ex position is the cnanimous opinioa of the officers bare a tht Unitoi States National. By EPSON . J M I . U ' WW- NEW ACID TEST FOR BANKNOTES IS PLACING THEM UNDER THE . ULTRA-VIOLET : RAT WHICH RE VEALS THE CLE V. EREST COUN- TERFDTING4 Button Spies." place where the provisionalgov ernment was voted? T. T.- Geer gave the account bMt In his "Fif ty Years In Oregon.: May 1, 1900. early In the second year of .his terra as governor of Oregon, he mounted his bicycle at the state house and . rode 20 miles to the home of , Hon, F, X Matthieu. thr miles from old Champoeg. He wrote: f ' t ' i V V ; "The next morning Mr. Mat thieu, Mr. Himes, the photograph er and I climbed Into the carriage of oar host and drove over to Champoeg' alang the road that had been familiar to Matthieu for all the 60 preceding years. (Mean ins; Geo. H. Himes, secretary of the Oregon State Historical socie ty, and a photographer who had accompanied -him from Portland.) As has been stated before, for many years after the pioneers met at Champoeg the town remained on the banks of the Willamette river , and was quite a shipping point for aU French Prairie, but it was completely washed away in December, 1861, after which It was rebuilt a tfalf mile back from the river on a bench, though the warehouse for the receipt? of freight was replaced. With tho advent of the railroad fn . 1870, however, this was abandoned, and now boats seldomtouch at this historic old landing, save for . a passenger bound for some down river point, "Arriving at the river's bank, it j was a poem and a song combined to see Mr. Matthieu as he stood ; taking in the situation, - the grounds and directions. The point where the meeting was held, had; changed but little In the interven ing ! time. It was then a small prairie, some SO yards across,-and had remained so, save that here and there waa an oak 'grub' which had managed to escape the interference of the settler's axe or the tramp of wandering stock "To our host, who had not vis ited the spot; for several years, the association appeared to recall the . 'days of auld lang syne.' He J United States notional BanU 4i The Czarina's CHAPTER " XXV . A fish -with a key. In its mouth. If a clue, it' was far too exasper atingly obscure to convey any more meaning to aim than it had done to Katharine. The only re-, suit of three minutes hard con centrated thought was to i corru gate Jim's brow with frowning; wrinkles. . " , "Oh, damn!" he said suddenly. "I don't believe that darned fish means or was Intended to mean anything. Just a leg-pull . of Frank's and that's til there Is to It. ; x ' was standing on the very spot where Dr. John McLoughlin had come la the early days to: locate another trading post McLougn 11a who for SO years was the gov ernor, and dictator-of the 1 north western territory.! Joe Meek had stalked , across this little f glade with all the Impetuosity! of a Roosevelt and in51 a dramatic man ner had decided - the fate! of an empire. Lucier, the old friend of Matthieu, had here stood irres olute, pusaled as he listened . to the "caU . of his countrymen and hi . former : associates on the one side, and to th admonitions of a new duty and the appeals: of his strong minded young friend on the other and these, with all the other 51 men, had long years before passed through the valley of death! (Geer .should have writ ten 55 or 56 or more men.) - , ! , i - "For; several minutes the Old here neither spoke nor gave an swer to our questions; he seemed utterly indifferent to his sur roundings. He was-living In an other t age a former generation which had passed away was re ceiving his attention and he .was listening to other voices. It was a moment when neither ..Himes nor I felt disposed to talk. We let the old gentleman complete his com munion, knowing well that We formed no part of the audience which was the background! of the picture created by Matthieu out of the boundless field of memory. S I "Finally, turning1 around, he cast his. eyes across the river and looked admiringly at the beauti ful hills, just beyond which many of the first settlers had located and over which (hey had (ridden on horseback to attend the meet ing of May 2, 1843. By degrees he came to himself, and, turning to us, said: " 'Pretty place. Isn't "Glad that he . had completed his reverie. I asked him where the meeting, was held., He replied quickly: : -s - -, " Well. sir. it was held aU around here. We didn't hold it in a house where everybody I had a chair and a desk. We began It in a little room, which the clerk of the store. had, but it was too small so we went out doors and; had it pretty mnch all over this prairie. But , the storehouse was j about there' pointing 'and Joe Meek walked : about there pointing again 'and we lined up with him al" around HERE' stepping away a few feet, j Why," Sir, t can see him now, and almost hear j him as he said: 'Who's in favor Of a di vide follow! me!' Mr. Matthieu added that there could be no mis take whatever about the location being correct, for it was one that time would not change; and, be sides, he had seen it every year or so since 1843 sometimes' of tener. I "At the time of our visit there was a small shack on almost the (Continued oa page IT) IpacgnGS La r 1 1 acre 14 vis &teSto Urrjest Uvettock DiiUie,f By SIDNEY Kubies -Warwick He dlsmlasedl.it absolutely but not too easily from his mind and began the business of his morn ing toilet. 1 i Milly was the only. one late for breakfast losing no time, as Jim remarked. In commencing her rest cure Their stay at Manor ways was to be no rest cure tqr Bill, who had ito go off to town almost immediately after break fast, and would! not be back much before seven that evening. Jim motored him Over to the neigh boring town to! catch the one fast train, and spent . tho remaining hours until lunch time in tho e&r with Katharine. i He spoke again of that intrig uing fish. Somehow It haunted him.- in spite of himself the pos sibility that It! might be a clue persisted la recurring in his mind. j t ,1 :!-: : Hanntin; i "That blessed fish . swam through my dreams - aU night," Jim told "her. "Katharine, what If it should be a jclue to those lost Czarina Rubies 1 1 can't rid myself of a sort of hunch that it Is and that what was! put In the letter as la jest has now suddenly be come -of serious and vital Impor tance, if so, the fish constitutes tho clue pf course, the key merely Indicating the fct. Brilliant brain work that but I'm afraid it does n't get us much! forwarder! With a rueful erln. i- . - I "But what fish eduld there be at Monksilver?' Katharine asked helplessly. j 1 "Well there have been some rr aneer flab, there latelv onlv not the kind of fish that Frank I could meanly he laughed. "Look here, Katharine, we u run over to Monksilver. iOnce n the spot something might suggest ' Itself. Pity we can't take Sant into our councils. Probably if we men tioned the , word 'fish'i to Sant, who knows Monksilver Inside and out, he'd daah unerringly; to the spot with screams of joy. We can't manage ltj today unfortun ately but we'll go tomorrow and angle for that elusive fish! We've got to find those royal, rubles of yours, Katharine Just got , toi" "I wish we Could." Katharine sighed- "and not only, for , my own Selfish reasons. . I should hate you to lose over your 'gam ble as you call! It. Jim." ... "Oh, that little flutter of oursT Don't worry about; that - Bless you. Milly, Bill bind I are already counting on pouching our win nings!" Jim responded with a laugh.' "As I haven't a doubt we shall, of course even If Frank's weird fish , should prove nothing more than a fish!" 1 fnselfteh f But it was I for Katharine's sake, not because of that two hundred and fifty of his and the Graysons' that represented the nutter" in question, mat Jim Wynter 'was -devoutly hoping -he mignc uo m iruo propuei. ! For Katharine s sake chiefly but tor other reasons too. In his mind was the thought ot Feder off s 4evoted loyalty that had guarded those rubles when disas ter and death had come winged to the hpuse of Murlnov . . . of that same unswerving loyalty that more than ten years later. In his efforts to the last of the Murlnov line, had cost Federorr his lire when lie had d ed still guarding them. It might be. too, that Frank Severn's fate was bound up with those blood-red stones. Intolerable te think of their sacrifices being la vain. Yet though he had spoken with apparent confidence to Katharine, Jim knew but too well that prob- j toftQE See America's Champions at the 21st facinc intemauonaL (Combines Pure-bred Livestock Show; Fat Stock Show; Dairy, Land and Manufacturers' Products Shows; Wool and Mohair Show; Poultry and Rabbit Show; Industrial Exhibits; Boys'-Girls Club Work Exhibit; Oregon FUh and Gams Commission Wild life Exhibits! "Truth' ia-Mcats Exhibits: and Spectacular Horse Show. , wio6iOO0 In Prdnilunao tmdmr ooc roof. &,f Ilflnna , America' finest and beat pore-bred Uvaatock. ravea idmh atrccc co cntrataee. - IS managed parking space for 5000 an Ilcrce C!iot7 PcrC eroasreca PariJci f ri.Ll..U. Livestock) Auctions ot Ueef and Dairy Cattlei ianior Agncuiturai ACttvtttcs. 0 days or caocauoa ana entertainment Portland, Cresa, Oct 24-31 Isokss Fsrss U Trasssertitjai Lass MBftWMi Show in th World 1 1 cereVundcr ably her chance of ever recover ing that gift from a royal house hung on only a slender thread or whether they succeeded In get ting Frank Severn -out of those merciless hands alive. And that was on the knees of the gods. BUI hoped- to see Inspector Haste that day. t ' ' It was true they had found out far more than they could have reasonably hoped for In so short a time thanks chiefly to luck and that unknown correspondent who seemed so determined to re main anonymous. But the difficul ty was to get definite proof of their suspicions. That they were up against a problem calling for all the expert advice and help they could get both realized. Possibly the key to the mystery lay behind that underground door In the ruins, that Saat had been so determined they should not open, -ii' :'" , Sant' had promised to have tho debris that now blocked It clear ed away but had he hany Inten tion of keeping his promise? His policy would probably be to put them off by. endless excuses and delays. "And the devil of it is that we aren't in a position to force his hand." Jim reflected. "He's la authority at Beggar's Court, auth ority given by Severn and he can please himself whaUhe does." . Luncheon at Mahorways was nearly over, that morning when a boy from the postoffice handed la a telegram. -, .; : r - Jim ; tore the buff envelope open, it was from Bill Grayson: ."Inspector Haste keen 'as mus tard. Things beginning to move." Intricate. Problem rtM -rr ....... j. .... gram with a sense of relief to know that Detective Inspector Haste's - help had been enlisted. The handling of this intricate problem was .altogether too big for a couple of amateurs to tackles with Frank Setem's fate hanging in the balance. "A wire from Bill but noth ang alarming,, Milly. He doesn't want bailing out or anything of that sort!' Jim explained lightly. "Merely to Say that Bill's seen a man on a matter of business I'm interested In." If Milly were to know that they were consulting Inspector Haste about the Beggar's Court affair she might in all Innocence men tion that Interesting fact to Sant. But he spoke ot it afterwards to Katharine, who already knew of their suspicion of Sant. Jim had taken her into his confidence when she had confirmed the sus picion that the letter supposedly from Severn might be a forgery. Katharine had been less sur prised at his news that he would have expected. From the first, she admitted now, she had not liked Sant, had been conscious of a vague unaccountable mistrust of this tig smiling man. . "But for the present we've got to act as though we - suspected nary a thing, not let him have a hint' Bill had warned her.., That's why Bill decided It was best Milly shouldl know nothing yet. - Milly's one of the best rolnxr only keeping state secrets isn't her strong suit!! (To be Continued) 600 : LIQUID OR TABLETS in 80 minutes, t. hecks m Cold tb relieves m Ueadsclie or Neuralgia first day. and checks Malaria ia three days, i 666- Salve for Baby's Cold. mess Annual i worth wcU.