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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, galea, Oregon, Thursday Mornln. December 17, 1931 "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atos" . From First Statesman. March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chhri.es A. Spbacve. Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Charles A. Spracue - - - - Editor-Mmnager Sheldon F. Sackett Managing Editor Member of the ' The Associated Press 1 exclusively entitled to the use for PUbllcsv. tloo ct all now dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthui W Slypes. Inc., Portland. Security Bid. Sao Francisco. Sharon Bldtf. : Los Angelra. w Pac. BlJg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Fora-Parsons-Stechar, Inc., New York, Salmon Tower Bid. 11 W. 42nd St.: Chicago. 360 N Michigan Ave. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Claaa Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Busweet office, 215 S. Cn-mwerrigl Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mail Sutscrlptton Rates, m Advance Jthin Orepn: rily a-a Sunday. 1 Mo. K0 cents; S Mo $125; 6 Mo $2.2 . 1 year l.oo. Elsewhere SO cent per Mo., or 55 00 for 1 year tn advance. By City Carriers 45 cent a mnnth; $5 00 a year In advance. Par Copy 2 cen'a. On trains and News Stands 5 eents Tariffs and Topcoats A week ago the Capital Journal proclaimed a great scoop XX in republishing an advertisement of a Seattle firm which toasted that Congressman Hawley, co-author of the tariff bill, was wearing one of their imported English top coats. Treason within the gates, the Capital Journal shout ed, because Cong. Hawley has been rated an ardent advocate of protection for home industry. It declared : "Mr. Hawley has his borne in Salem, but buys bis clothes In Seattle from a British firm of importers, which speaks for his cooperation in upbuilding home industry and patronizing Sa lem merchants." Unfortunately for the Capital Journal it let its venonf against the veteran congressman outrun the customary pru dence of journalism to make investigation before rushing intn nrint. But that naner never waits to investigate if it sees a chance to "smear Hawley". If it had. it would have found out these facts: That the particular topcoat was purchased in a Salem store, at Bishop's. That this is a line of topcoats carried at Bishops and purchased and worn by many Salem people. That while the cloth is an English weave, the same as a great many fabrics used in this country for coatings and suit ings, on account of the tariff the cut-up garments are not finished and imported, but are imported unfinished and the finishing is done in this country, thus getting a lower tariff rate. While. a man rarely is subjected to an inquisition on the clothes he bu3's, Cong. Hawley has wired this information to Ronald C. Glover. Salem attorney: "Re editorial Capital Journal bought overcoat of Bishops and suits of Mosher and another Salem firm nlso haberdashery. Mrs. Hawley had her suits made by Salem concern. Never made purchases in Seattle." Thus it turns out that Cong, and Mrs. Hawley do their shopping for apparel right here in Salem, making their se lections from the garments and goods carried by Salem mer chants and shown to them. Whether Congressman Hawley called for a pedigree of this topcoat before buying it we do not know. A representative of the Seattle house which mer chants the line through this territory happened to be in the store when Hawley bought the coat and so learned who the buyer was. Probably Hawley did just like anj' other man who buys clothing : he went to his home town store where he was accustomed to trade and picked out the garment he liked, which would fit him and which was offered at a price he could afford. To one of Hawley's massi vet build probably the first consideration was to get a coat big .enough for him. So much for that. It may be added vhat the tariff was never intended to be an embargo but an equalizer which would enable domestic producers and manufacturers to get higher prices for their products. And who should pay the tariff included in the price of a topcoat if not Cong. Hawley who helped clap the tariff on? The Capital Journal has no room to bellyache because it is a free trade paper anyway ; and if its ideas prevailed most all the topcoats worn in this country would be of English manufacture. Now let us tell one. Recently this writer helped solicit ftrads from local mer chants for the Salem Ad club. We came to one merchant who related with high indignation a rumor he bad just heard that a certain editor in this town had gone to a restaurant run by a JAP and bought a cup of coffee. He declaimed to high heaven what an outrage that was. He himself was a Jew, of a race which has often felt the sting of persecution. Coffee and topcoats. On such trivial matters hang the des tinies of editors, politicians and states! - - i Bonds and Water BY a majority of 603 the voters who expressed themselves at the election Tuesday authorized the issuance of $2, 500,000 in general obligation bonds for the acquisition of a water system. A preference in favor of the Little North Fork of the Santiam as a supply source was expressed. While only SG tf the registered voters took the trouble to vote on the most important financial question ever submitted to the voters of the city, it is difficult to say that the result would have been changed had a full vote been cast. There is always that alibi in case of a light vote. The issues were presented quite fully and the voters decided the question. Whether they like it or not the minority must bow to the will of the majority, or to the majority of the voting minority. ; Aa.forcefully and yet as fairly as it could The States man opposed the bond issue of $2,500,000 for two reasons: (1) We felt the sum was just $1,000,500 more than was necessary to provide the city with an abundance of pure, wholesome drinking water free from taste or odor. (2) We f elt that the interest and principal charge on a bond issue of this size would inevitably resalt either in high er taxes or in higher water rates, when neither was justified. The fact that a majority disagreed with us does not change our views which were arrived at after a rather thor ough study of the Salem problem. If the system goes through - as now planned, time will tell whether we were right or wroncr. L 2 SHtesman consistently supported municipal 2?22up i0f..our Sfter system believing that that would be in A host BAlntinn .uMi t,. .1 1 ... . , , rr 'Vs lcsict iwwevw uk a smaller bond is sue COUld not have been nmnmuuf WhiM. u , . LMASS!J?2I,?? Pf debt I r uw"w The question is raised as to whether a majority vote Dre-vails- or a 2-3rds vote TW i 11 l ;ote ?,rr , . , -- was charter amendment a We hope the legality of ' ' DUt to the test That win be a before the bonds are saleable. rr- .. uuio we the courts Dass on the validitv , .- . , , . . , , - for speed is this: that if we uciiv cu j. rum a uuna issue me action gnould be Dromnt to take advantage of low prices now fwevailing, and to rive Mj"vuui, vv uicu wuu ueea Charli Wilson had m. tmm Tertitdnc and th hndrit rnmmlttu n . ..1.1" ?' i.VwfIT luuiiuu tor amu Associated Press Pnt tne same as a privately wicHwn, uut as tnis majority rote is supposed to be the bond issue will be nmmnflv rMv netr i" f? A??? Instead of spending money for iuh U1UVB SnOUld D8 tO hftVP of ia i rm.- loouc. me reason are to spend 1200 000 of the wurjt. tar innfi.n.tin. . averusin- ana tu public would Yesterdays ... Of Old Sakat 5ToTr Talks from The States mu of Earlier Days December IT, 1909 Striking xnotormea, and conduc tors praeticall brought Portland street car service to a halt last night Increased wages and non discrimination against anion men are sought. One of the finest depots be tween Portland and San Francis co has been promised Salem by the Southern Pacifie company. The present depot will be remod eled and 40 foot additions made at each end. Nationwide shortage of coal la moving state and federal govern ment heads to demand relief from the situation. Trains are stalled for lack of fuel and industries hampered. December 17, 1021 An apple weighing SI ounces yesterday was displayed In Salem by J. J. Stratton. Many of the ap ples he took to the cannery were too large to go In the machines. Members of the Willamette Valley Highway association, resi dents of the west side of the riv er, are seeking location of a per manent highway from Dayton south to West Salem. WASHINGTON The first great stride toward a five-power treaty limiting naval armaments was taken last night when the United States, Great Britain and Japan announced final agreement on the American 5-5-3 ratio. Yesterday Statesman reporters asked: "How do you feel about the results in the city water bond election?" George Hng, educator: "Well, the people voted It. Now, let It alone. I think it's poor sports manship to find fault." Zollie Volchok, high school stu dent: "I didn't give a darn. Much as I read about it, is seemed like a good thing." .P. G. Thatcher, barber: "Oh, boy! I did not notice the water tasted any different this morn ing. Guess it hasn't run down yet. Ha! Ha!" Dr. W. H. Hobson, physician: "I think the end results will be ter rible. I'm against municipal ownership in any and all forms." Fred Denlson, elevator opera tor: "It's all right. Probably should hare been done 20 years ago." Mrs. iTan Martin, attornor! "T would rather not express my opin ion just nOW. I'M AATa rnv rft marks for some time later." Mrs. William McGllehrlst. Jr.. homemaker: "Now that we have It, meet it and pay for It and and n"ke the best of it." " Daily Thought "The passions are th only orators that always nersuada thv are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion Is more cersnaslve than thu mat eloquent without It." La Rochefousauld. New Views Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. TTTHia a baby is taken away YY from the mother's breast, it is necessary that it be given a proper formula. The for mula may not be successful at first and then most be ehans;ed. TidM can only be done under the adriee and supervision of a physician. It is impor tant that the formal?, be va ried from time to time as the childrrows old er. The "custom ary change is to increase the amount of milk Dr. Copeland used and to decrease the amount of water. Whatever nutritive ele ment is added to the milk Is like ly also to be increased gradually. Many rnyalciaiu now recommend that Infants be placed upon cereals and other solid foods as soon as pos sible, it la amazing to sea an tataat take, nourishment from a spoon at as ear hy an as aa two months. Not only do t hay seem to enjoy this novel eipariaaca, but they put on weight " xo aaveiop rapidly. The child requires attenUon If It Answers to Health Queries j A. M. Q. I am troubled with in grown hake about the face and chin. What can be dene tor this disturb ance T A- Be ears te share with the mln of the aid a. never against it: also be sure to keep the face well soaped and moist while shaving, e e e . ! M. J. Q. What censes ths teeth to chlpt Aw Consult your dentist. BROOKLYN. Q. What causes ins toes te Ken at alsht? The? da net seem te bother me in the day- xitamj Thla may be dne to ringworm, to ecaema or to a nervous condition. Try te locate the cause and then proper treatment can be outlined. e e MR. M. O. A. Q. What causes foul breath T Aw This may be due te diseased tonaUs, decayed teeth, nasal catarrh, indigesttssi or constipation. HERE'S HOW THBrAKB.THE miff tr'Sti TESTING 500 MEN, U. S. PUB LIC HEALTH SERVICE FOUND SIZE NO INDICATION OF STRENGTH. INSTEAD, THE SMALLER, COMPACTLY. BUILT MEN HAD MORE STRENGTH AND STAMINA fHAN THE LARGER ONES 0H1 Tomorrow I "The BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Across the plains la 'III U m (Continuing from yesterday): Wrote Ball In his diary Aug. 1, 18S2: "Mrs. MlHon Sublette (a squaw) had a child, and the next day she mounted her horse, the babe was pat la ft basket feet down and hung on the pommel of her saddle, and she rode IS miles that day. Mrs. Snblette had a child about 3 years of ago who rode a gentle pony. The child was so fastened on with blankets as to keep It upright, and the pony followed the train with loose horses, never straying far with Its charge." Ball wrote that they crossed the Portneuf Aug. 6 and camped on a branch of that stream two days, drying more meat; started west the 12th, and the IS Independent trappers separated from them, go ing Into California. .The Wyeth and Milton Sublette party were near the American Falls Aug. II. They wandered south to the Hum boldt river, and there Milton Sub lette and his trappers left them Aug. 26, and Capt. Wyeth and his men, proceeding In a northwester ly direction, reached the Snake again Sept 10. On th 10th they met the Sublette party again. The Wyeth party met Shoshone In dians and, by Blgns, made them understand they wished to go to Fort Walla Walla. Ball wrote: S "That (Walla Walla) being th only word in common between as, the conversation had to be by signs. An Indian drew a map on the sand: one sign meant river, making a motion of paddling; an other the trail, by pointing to a horse. We understood that we were to heap down the river three sleeps (laying his head on his hands and shutting his eyes three times), thus giving us to under stand we were to go by day, and, if we whipped op. could cover the ground in two days. There the river went Into the mountains, and we were to go over these does not take Its nourishment well, leaves moat of -its bottle, or if tt criea and frets a lot. Its stools must be watch carefully. If they are green and loose the doctor's attenUon should be called to the tact and his advice obtained. When a child U net well and Is not taking the proper nourishment the muscles become flabby. The usual brlaht smile that moat Infants have disappears. Appetite is poor and It la resUesa at nlrht. It cries. Is irritable and doesn't sleep at all during the lay. Infants require abundant food, yet this cannot be riven In buUc It moat be carefully measured and gradually Increase in quantity. If aa Infant were able to talk, tt would tell just what It likes and what tt dislikes. Since It oannot do that, it must be given simple food that 1s easUy dlrested. Proper food is essential to buikUna; up the tone and strensth of the body. AU Infants should be given resro larly soma form of cod liver oU. be ginning soon after btrth. This may be given la its usual form, or per haps more advantageously In one of the new simple forms. To help yor infant develop late a healthy and happy child is not a difficult matter. It is essenUal to talk with rur physician or have him visit the baby. If this Is impos sible because of your Mmlted meana, yon may re te a baby clinic. There cnanges tn coed will be advised and Instruction of general value wlO be given. MRS. M. H. Q. X hare a rearlnc and a hiaatnr in my head and my doctor has said that the trouble la due to hypertension. My blood pres sure Is normal but the noises per sist. What weuld you 'advise T A. High blood pressure, nervous ness or a catarrhal condition may be causing the trouble. If you are cer tain that your blood pressure is not at fault have yeex nose and throat examined. For further particulars send a selt-adeessed. stamped en velope and repeat yovr question. e 8. P. R. Q. What wtn produce energy? WW an add condition of the system cause lack of energy? Would it be beet to see a doctor la this case? A. Lack of energy Is usually due te some vadertylns; cause. An acid condition would naturally affect the system In general. Proper diet and regular elimination should do much toward general improvement. For full particulars send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and repeat your Question. 1H1.Bhiimii rwtsrs ssroee, m. By EDSON i A MACHfrft THAT WIX hint music as you HA jt It THI IN. VIHTIOM OP OATH UNDERWOOD, SAN AAN OSCO MCCHAMC OESPITt THI AUTOS fOfULASlTT. THI AVEKAGI AMERICAN WALKS EIGHT MUS CVERr OAV Sacred Calabashes" mountains, and sleep; then an other range, and sleep; then mak ing a sign of a plain, then two more sleeps, and then Walla walla. I was Quite confident I understood him, even If it was by signs. It proved as he said, and was a great help to us. . . . Capt. Wyeth took fonr men and the best horses and started ahead for Walla Walla." (They had run oat of provisions; nearly starved; killed and ate an old horse.) Oct. 14, Ball wrote: "I notlned In the western horhcon something sta tionary, although it looked like a lloud in the bright Bky. It proved (I afterwards found) the grand and snowy Mount Hood. This wo hailed as a discovery, and the grandest sight we had yet seen." S They subsisted on berries Found some Indians and bought dried bear meat and elder ber ries. Arrived at Fort Walla Walla Oct. 18; Wyeth had been there two days. Tasted bread for the first time since June 1. Took a boat of the Hudson's Bay com pany and proceeded down the Co lumbia; two French Canadian trappers going with them. Reach ed Fort Vancouver Oct. 29, nine days from Fort Walla Walla. "We were a hard looking set," . . . wrote Ball, "but we were most hospitably received." Ball and four others started down tho river In an Indian canoe Nov. 3; "passed many of the com pany's sloops, and Indians singing as they paddled their canoes' wrote Ball. They went to the spot (Fort Clatsop) where Lewis and Clark wintered; got a yawl and a man to sail it and crossed over to Chinook point, and encamped, and at low tide went three miles around the point to the seashore Wrote Ball: V "I urged the men to go with me. but all declined. So I went alone to look on the broad Pa iifk, with nothing between me and Japan. Standing on the brink of the great Pacific, with the waves washing my feet, was the happiest hour of my lonr lonr- ney. There I watched until the an sank beneath the water. Then y the lleht of tha mnnn T turned to camp, feeling I had not crossed the continent in vain." They were back at Fort Vancou ver Nov. 15. As of the 17th. Ball wrote: -. I asked the doctor (Dr. Mo Loughlln) for some employment. He repeatedly answered me that I was a guest and not eipected to work. But after much urging, he aid if I was willing ho would like me to teach his own son and the other boys in the fort, of whom there were a dozen. So the boys were sent to my room to be Instructed. All were half breeds, as there was not a white woman In Oregon." (Dr Mc Laughlin's son, David, was a quarter-breed, his mother being the daughter of a Scotch factor who had taken to wife the daugh ter of a Cheppewa chief.) Thus John Ball became the first school teacher in the Oregon country. The reader has likely heard of the "bull boat" of tho pioneers. In his diary. Ball de scribed the making of the first one he saw. Writing oa June 12, 1812, at the Laramie fork of the Platte, where the stream was high he said: "Here w halted to make Tuil boats' and rafts to carry ourselves and goods across. A 'ball boat' Is made of willow branches 12 or 14 feet long, each about one and a half Inches at the butt end. These ends were fixed In the ground In converging rows at proper distances from each other, and as they approached nearer the ends of the branches were brought nearer together and bound firmly together like ribs of a great bas ket; and then they took other twigs of willow and wove them Into these stack in the ground so as to make a sort of firm, lone hnge basket. After this was com pleted they sewed together a num ber of buffalo skins and with them covered the whole; and after the different parts had been trim med off smooth, a slow fire was made under the 'ball boat tak ing care te dry the skins moder ately; and as they gradually dried and acquired a doe degree of heat they rubbed buffalo tallow .all over the outside of it so as to al low If In jtntAT into all thft MMM "The Gay Bandit SL Border" S" SYNOPSIS fa tit yfwifT flcsirt. a r) rider, hit gwa eta warso, Jride tfc eshsJtsfing snssqntte as the ami airy rides pest. They stop beside tbs ptoetraf figvr el ibsul "Lopes!" Cher sssistss. aad a staves? i threngh the arovp. A istriaa kogh worsts dowa frees above, aad gaaiaf p they see the iwsiVsd rider ewt fined Bgainsc the sky. Across the order, tall and hand some Tsd Kad. cSffe arrives at Verdi Jsactio. Be Is snot ky a pretty tjM who delves Ides te the hosae of his friend. Bob rtsihrtsss. She Wares without gJv- btg bsr name. Whue waitins; for Boh, Ted goes riding. Bs rescoes a bo yfeemg bestsa by two Mexicans la Pace Morales employ. They threats Uss with the vengeance of their leader, Jhe. Later Ted meets Che girl acquaintance of the morning at a dinner ghrea by Major Blount of the U. 8. Army. She Is Adela Morales, tnsee of Pace Morales, the maa el power m Mexico. All eyes tsra to Morales when B Coyote, the basaVt, a mentioned. CHAPTER VI "El Coyote, yes. His chief amuse ment lies la robbing me. Yon will hear much of El Coyote, scfior. The bandit most famous of the southwest border. Also he does me the honor to be my personal enemy, although X have never seen him. But his raids art almost always sgsinst me. Not too freely do mea speak of him, seaor, for no one knows who art his friends." "He has friend r "Friends? Of a surety. Friends aad followers perhaps powerful oses. H would creatt s legend, this El Coyote, that he Is the protector of the poor and that he steals only from the rich. Baeaot It Is an empty gesture, to ref raia from plundering paupers, sor "Is be American or Mexican f "YVt do not surd know, although I am certain be is American." Blount's laugh boomed from the lower end of the table. "Morales won t ever admit the possibility that this border thief b one of his Mex ican cousins." Ths Spaniard raised his bands fa a ends gesture. "I am sure he is not His ways, they art not Latin ways. Hi has, if yoa win pardon me, the sudden brutality of the Amefkaa bad man." "Has no one ever seen him?" "Not -without his mask, sefior. No one, that is, who has lived. Ws know h rides a white horse and that be carries two automatics at his side. He is one of those rare men who shoot equally well with right hand or left. Bat ail that is what you call hearsay." Radcliffe leaned forward. TeB me more about him." Morales smiled in quiet amass fnent "Yoa lore adventure, no? Boeaol This El Coyote has gath ered s band, and they live somewhere out toward the foothills in Mexico. From there they swoop down on the ranches, plundering them of cattle and sometimes of gold. In two years this bandit king has cost me many thousand pesos and the lives of six men. To me it has been an expensive form of entertainment, aad the end ttiea sabs? The Mexican cavalry have banted him, bat they art not fnerts not vigorous. Almost I think they do not waat to catch him. Partly they art afraid, aad partly do they sympathise." "Sometimes I sympathise with him myself," mannered the major's wife. The Spaniard inclined Us "It is the privilege of yoar charming sex to be sentimental, sell ore. Bat tt is not s gift that makes good sol diets. Myself. I have no sympathy Five thousand pesos I have offered willow basket. As the melted tal low ran down' Into every seam. hols, and crevice. It cooled Into a firm body, capable of resisting the water and bearing a considerable blow without damage. Then the willow-ribbed buffalo skin tal lowed vehicle was carefully pulled from the ground behold! a boat, capable of transporting men, horses and goods over a pretty strong current. "At the sight of It we Yankees alt burst Into a load laugh, whether from surprise or pleasure I do not know." They again used their "bull boats" on June 18, in crossing the Platte where It comes from the south, and in' getting over the Snake July 21, at the point where Wyeth built Fort Hall two years later. John Ball wrote In hb diary, in 1832 and 1833, many compli mentary words about the beaatlee of Oregon, and the wonderful na tural resources and advantages of this then wholly undeveloped region. He left it only because he could not foresee that It would goon be peopled and provided with a clvllited society. Moratorium is Ruled no Issue For Party Vote WASHINGTON, December 14 (AP) Concentration on a slash la governmental expenditures was agreed upon here by a score of democratic leaders as the first Item of the party's legislative program. They also came to the conclu sion the Hoover moratorium was not a question on which the par ty could take sides. It was left to the personal views of the mem bership. Farmers Achieve ' Success in War On Higher Taxes ST. PAUL, Minn. Dec It t API Minnesota farmers in hp'atlnsr the drums In n tar reArm. tion parade sweeping three north I for him, dead or afire. I have prota- wm alone, ustea. I ww ten yoa one tittle story that happened only last might, and thea, se&ocyoa can decide whether we have, here real bandit or not. Just before dawn this saorning has It taken place, and the sokuera are still keeping it secret. bat I 11100 tea yon. For a raomeat Morales regarded the sQeot growp tn the candlelight. Thea again bis this lips moved, "Two nights ago Lopes, a Mexican rider, offered to guide the soldiers to where El Coyotes camp by. By chance or treachery the bandits bad already learned of their coming and Bed. The soldiers got nothing bat a few abandoned horses, some blank ets and embers of campfire. Bat they learned something of the bandit's habits. Things that taay be of value, Bnenol In any case Lopes had earned, his reward. "Yesterday a little boy cams bear ipg a note to Lopes. A folded paper some stranger bad given him in the road, and the paper said in Spanish that before the fall moon died Lopes himself would die." The Spaniard ceased and played idly with a few crumbs that lay be fore him. "Last night, under cover of darkness. Lopes came to my ha cienda. Ht was leaving, he told me. He trembled. Dice, how frightened he wast There could be 06 safety for him fat all the borderland. I. gave him his thousand pesos la American gold." Again the Spaniard stopped, ss if sank in reverie. "Well," asked the major at last. "What happened?" "Nothing very importaaU" Before dawn this Lopes is found in the Verdi road, a ballet through his throat and the beg of gold cat open. A few coins by scattered over ths man. as If la contempt. A gesture. aor Ht turned toward Radcliffe. "Such is oar bandit. lis has terrorized this bnd too long, and ontS the troops of yoar country will help our Mexican soldiers. I fear we will never get him. Bat I have good friends la Washington. Each day I am expecting word that Major Blount's cavalry will help drive out this thief and killer." Across the table from Radcliffe a heavy, red-faced man of fifty was listening intently. He had been in troduced as Dr. Price, and in the pause that followed he raised his voke. A slngularry pleasant voice, it seemed to Radcliffe, with just a trace of southern drswL "I could never see why oar troops should come Into the picture. Morales." he began. "This Coyote b a bandit technically, and deeds like last night's hare an ugly sound. Bat everybody who knows the border country wll! admit that if tt weren't for El Coyote the little ranchers about here would have been gobbled op slick and clean by yoa big fel lows long ago. Yon would own the whole border world. A it Is, this bandit, If yoa want to call him that, has so far kept the big ftsh from eating the little ones." Morales showed no slightest sign of Irritation. "Boeno, Bat perhaps the big fish believe that for the good of the border country tt would do no harm if these little fish were eaten op. Today b the day of effi cient things, no? Yoa Americans have taught as that Aad it is aot efficient for every honored acres of bnd to have s rancimouse and fam ily when I can control hstf a mifiioa acres withoen all the waste of money that these little ranchers bring. S long ago they would have bees driven oat had k aot been for thb El Coyote protector of theirs. Thb country is for great herds of cattle. It has been that since first my an Heartened with success la ar resting the mounting carve of lo cal governmental expenditures, they are looking for redactions. They have been in the van of a movement which a tabulation to day showed has cat next year's budget for Minnesota counties, townships, school districts and municipalities by more than $7,- MORTGAGES INVESTMENTS INSURANCE Do you number mortgages among your investments? If so, you have noticed little or nothing in de preciationwhile comparison of values in other types of securities shows a decided difference between "depression" and "oomM prices. Once an Investor in our well selected mortgage always an Investor. For details, caU or phone 4109. Hawkins c5c Roberts, Inc. Second Floor, Oregon BuUdinw, Salem Phone 4109 cestors took It from the Indian. It is not meant to be cut up into silly farms and straggling v&Uges. It b a country for the few and the strong." i The major had rUea.' His wife whispered to Radcliffe, "The time for that big speech has come." Impressively the major ceogbed, "X have some interesting mfcctne tloa for all of yoa," be began im portantly. "It b at regard to thb bandit Sefior Morales, yoa have long wanted the use of my cavalry in running down El Coyote, fit admit that nothing could havt given my boys more pleasure than a little bandit hunting, bat that wasn't our Job until we got orders to go ahead. Well, youll be glad to know this afternoon I received telegraphic in structions from Washington to take the field until El Coyote b either killed or driven from the country. I promise yoa that in one month wt wDt have him." A gleam of Intense pleasure, a kind, of animal ferocity, flared for a moment in -Morale's eyes. His hands mads the motion of applause. "Bneno, boeno! That means battle. It means" Ht stopped, and, fob lowing hb eyes, Radcliffe saw a figure standing ta ths doorway. The major's wife touched bar guest's arm. "Don Bob," she said. Outlined against the dim light of the farther room stood sa erect, slender figure in evening clothes. To Radcliffe's watching eyes there was aa immense air of repose about the man, a sense of quiet confidence, coupled, jost bow Raddkre couldn't say, with a great alertness. Hb temples were graying. Hb eyes moved steadily from one face to an other. 'Quietly the man -moved te hb hostess's chair. "So sorry to be bra. Aad the voice, when he spoke, was b har mony with the Impression he evoked, Clear and eager, and behind k by that same assurance and confidence hb quiet eyes spoke of. The major waved him toward a seat bat Don Bob had already seta Radcliffe and stepped forward. Ua hesitatingly he grasped the younger man's hand. "If s good to set yon, Ted." With a swift gbnes ht appraised the straight strong body and nodded in silent approval Td hate to try lift lug yoa on my shoulder now, Ted, The years havt dont well by yon. Yon -yes, yoa look like yoar father, but so much bigger." Again ht bid a hand on Radcliffe's shoulder, thea passed to his seat "There's a separate portion of Halt reserved for late dinner guests," Aunt Clara scolded, ss the maa took hb place st her left "Hell enough to know I've missed at least two courses of the best din ner is Verdi. Dreadfully sorry, I made the bit three mOes from the ranch In tea minutes over that broken-down cow trail" Don Bob raised bis eyes to the major. "Bat what was that Impassioned speech I Interrupted r And Blount, ever eager to pass on hb morsel of news, replied: "The United States government which b my small capacity I serve, b tired of El Coyote's playfulness Tomor row the cavalry and I take the field in Mexico." Don Bob's eyebrows raised. "How can yoa go hunting there?" "WeTi ask permbsloa from the Mexican authorities ta bust the bandit wherever he goes." Confidently Morales added t "The Mexican cavalry will girt whatever yoa ask. I can answer for that" With a gesture of dismissal the Spaniard turned toward Doa Boh,1 "Important news, eh, Doa Bob?" " (Te Be ContJnaal) 800,001 In three months. Ia North and South Dakota the movement Is keeping pace. Oeorge Watklns, Cardinal out fielder who starred in the f'nal 1911 world's series game, has mads a winter business connec tion in Houston, Tex. 1 of the concern, now no linger a central states.