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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem; Oregon, S&tardajr Mortiinsr, February 20, ,1932. i .... "No Favor Steals CT; M Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 23, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Snucut, Shsijwh F. Sxcssrt, PublUher$ Charles A. Spkacvs - fiitor.'UaI?t'L SHELDON F. Sackett ' - - Managing Editor Member of the associated Press iv.i.t.i Pr. i. exclusively entitled to the ns for publlen. twn f iii n.w. disDtch credited to It or not otherwise creaiu u. this piper, Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypea, Inc. Portland. J$elrir Bld. Baa Franclsce. Sbaroa Bid.: Us Angel, w. Pae. Hue. Eastern Advertising. Representatives: rord-Parsons-Stecher. tne, Kw Tork. 8m T" Bld . 11 W. 2nd St.: Chtcaso. W. aficbigma Ave. Entered at tA Poetoffice at Salem, Oregon, a SeccOaM Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Busmete office, t!5 S. Commercial iiireet. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: WUhln Oregon: Daily. a. Sunday: 1 Ma CO cents; I ua ii.lSs I Mo.- iz.zs; i fwr Ustwhere It cnta par Mo, or I5.0 for 1 year In advance Br City Carrier t 4 cents a month: 15.09 a year ta advance, Par Copy t cent On train and Hire 8tand t centa "Justice Holmes Dissents" intment of Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Safety Valve - - Letters from v Statesman Reader it i. . nriWF! unnnintment of Benjamin H. Uaraozo, cniei justice I ha Mow Vrtric rnurt of armeals as successor to Oliver Wendell Holmes has been hailed by friends of the type of ju dicial reasoning followed by Justice Holmes with a chorus of approval. Judge Cardozo is regarded as a fit successor to Justice Holmes whose dissenting opinions have given him much Drominence. dissents" became a phrase often used. He was regarded as the great liberalist fighting valiantly against conservatism and reaction. Such were his sympa thies and such in general his line of reasoning. It is singular hiirVi tw. ih first dissent of Justice Holmes was in a pi votal case, probably the most important case thus far in the century, a case too which validated the life work of Theodore Roosevelt in re-establishing the authority of government over ereat corporations. This was the Northern Securities case of 1903. It was one of the historic suits ki American judicial history. The period marked the culmination of centralized power over American industry and it was largely held in the grip of one num. J. Piernont Morcran. The case was simple. After a bit- TAF fitrVit hAtween Morean and James J. Hill on the one hand and E. H. Harriman and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on the other for dominance in western transportation, the Morgan-nui com bine had acquired control of the Burlington system, already TwM control of the Great Northern, and after a sensational stork exehanffe battle in 1901 in which Northern Pacific stock went up to $1000 a share, retained control over the Northern Pacific. In order to retain this domination Morgan nrf Hilt established the Northern Securities company which was to hold the stock of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, parallel and competing lines, each of which owned substantially hail tne stocK oi tne Jtsuningion. Prk Roosevelt viewine with alarm this stifling of com petition, directed his attorney general P. C. Knox to bring suit enjoining the JNortnern securities irom noicung me siuc of the two roads on the grounds of infringement of the Sher man anti-trust act. It was a daring thing, for it challenged plutocratic power at a vital point. It was the bolder because in the Knight case, the first anti-trust case, the supreme court had held against the government on a similar point of law. But Knox moved swiftly, Morgan was astounded, the case was bitterly fought. In its decision, written by the eminent Justice Harlan, the court altered the position it had taken in the Knight case and granted the injunction. This forced the abandon ment of the attempt to unite the two roads under one hold ing company. In 1930 the effort was made under the new transportation act to merge the roads but so great was the hostility In the area traversed by the roads that the attempt xrna finallv abandoned. Justice Holmes dissented, and his opening paragraph is interesting: , "I am unable to agree with the judgment of the majority of the court, and although I think It useless and undesirable ai a rulejo express dissent, I feel bound to do so in this case and .In mv remnTK for it." ' - How strange this sounds, for how frequently was the inst'ce to become a dissenter. Usually thereafter however, his dissent was because he favored more liberal interpreta tion of the constitution and specifically would not interpret it for the particular benefit of capital. In this Northern Se curities case however his dissent was favorable to capital, Awn tn mononolvi and his omnion seems to us now as narrowlv legalistic as those he later inveighed against. Had the view of Justice Holmes prevailed the anti-trust act would have been left virtually impotent, and holding corananies could have effected what the law was designed to stop: combinations in restraint of trade. The moral effect would have been disastrous as well because the autocracy of . big business and its authority even over the power of the government would virtually have been established. It is true that now the country is seeking a modification of the Sherman act, and railroad consolidation is favored in the interest of economy. But conditions are far different now than then. ' "Justice Holmes dissents", the sentence will live long in history. The fact that his first dissent was in its effect so divergent from his later dissents, and that in a case of pi votal importance in political and judicial history, is some i thing of more than academic interest. The Editor: - , As it there are not hundreds of thousands of laws on the statute book of the nation, states and-mu nicipalities, our Salem city coun cil la contemplating an additional law against "midnight matinees" in our theatres. Strange- to say the proposal is based on the statement "that par ents complain that the young peo ple stay out late at night." How fallacious that argument is, is obTious because it la -presumed that the "young people" would stay at home If the theaters were closed. In the first place it Is time to reemphasixe the point that disci pline, self-control, character and morality do not come Into being by any legislative or councilar en actments. The public place of en tertainment, properly lighted, crowded and supervised is a safer place for people young or old. Can the city council pass a law closing up our country roads after sundown? Can the city council pass a law forbidding young peo ple in going about in automobiles? If the curfew law is enforced, that would keep children where they belong at home, or lr they are out with their parents. But we are facing a situation well stated by a little boy, What a the use of go ing home? The old man and the old lady are at a dance . . . There is nobody at home." Parents either should know what their youngsters are doing or be out with them. There Is too much stress laid on police super vision. The failure of the home, the breakdown of paternal authority and the consequent irresponsibil ity of youth cannot be done away overnight .... there is no such magic in law. My observation of years has convinced me that inner direction of life based on moral and. relig ious education is the true cure for evils against which many pro test .... they are evils of our own making. Many parents try to shift responsibility and thus ease their consciences. The police have a def inite function, but in their work they should not be considered nursemaids. It is about time that we thought a little more about individual re sponsibility rather than develop a race of hot-house weaklings. Sincerely yours. MARTIX F. FERRY. HERE'S HOW 11 Inl lilL: Jo 1 rni Ur - S. , . !l I I aF urn u rt ft ill By, edson ! nrXJC T r 7C TD A D" By. ROBERT ? 1 ; A 1 11 i J-iVy V 1 i A A ull SHANNON! t-: WILL ItfcCfcNTLY' MAI fiOAf TU 2 -months 3i.ee ti Ar OAOPQ K NEW AAOVlNCr wcjrxjee rim, ks oecN mart ep in PAets rf 15 SO TiMM THAT 6gEn.5 CM (?a ftCKP? tN AH ORPlNAey ONB- eeet sox Sunday: "Liquid Smoke BITS for BREAKFAST Yesterdays ... Of Old Salem Town Talks from The States man of Earlier Days February 20. 1907 The house yesterday nassed the si&u.ooo appropriation bill for a state exhibit at the Alaska'Tukon racmc exposition which will be held at. Seattle from June 1 to October 15, 108. ooumern racmc omciais yes terday assured Alderman F. G. Haas that all engineers hare been Instructed to respect Salem's speed ordinance. February 20, 1922 a II I1H11 . a au vvuiamerce is playing, or may play, soccer football, begin ning with yesterday afternoon when the first Gaelic game for the university was staged. Coach Roy Bonier has instituted the game as training for track, basketball and Kugby football. The Highland Friends' church was formally opened and dedicat ed to public services Sunday. The new church has cost about $0500 DALLAS. The city of Dallas intends to build several miles of cement sidewalks during the com Ing summer, replacing practically an remaining boprd walks. New Views By R. J. HENDRICKS Charlie, Modoo captive t m f Continuing from yesterday:) "He could be relied upon to. tell the truth though damage to himself-. He would care tor our two little girls and obey me with out hesitation and with seeming pleasure to himself, but to obey my wife waa a sore trial to his pride, which was ever on the point of revolt against what some white masculines call petticoat govern ment. Her . requests he executed grudgingly and once he positive ly refused and stood in battle ar ray, when Informed of It, I naked him to give a reason for such treatment of the person who was performing the duties of mother for him. ' S " 'Does she not cook your vic tuals, wash your clothes, give you soft, warm bed, teach you to read and treat you aa her own boy? And is this the return yon make for all her goodness. Can't you 6eo that your refusal to do what she requests Is the act of a cowardly Cur that ahould be kick ed out of decent society? Now, Charlie, If yon are Intending to be a man and hold your head up among men, never let that occur again.' "And he didn't, though be had lived too long among those who thought it humiliating for braves to obey a squaw. His education did not begin soon enough. S "We had a flock of sheep and it was Charlie's duty to bring them to the corral every evening before dark to secure them from wolves, a task which he perform ed punctually with one exception. Upon coming home one night at 10 o clock, I found him sitting by the fireplace In a moody state of mind, and upon inquiring the cause learned that the sheep were not penned as usual; that Charlie had been on a visit that day to one of the neighbors, did not get home until after dark, and that he had had an unsuccessful search for them. " 'Well,' said I, you do not pro pose to leave them out over night for the wolves to kill, do you?' My wife Interposed with the remark that Charlie was afraid, and being aJitUe hoy she could not ask him to go again. " 'Why, he has been big enough all along to drive 6heep, and I guess he is big enough now.' " 'WeU, but he suffers from fear,' my wife said, 'and it is cruel yesterday btatesman reporters asked: "Do you think wages of statehouse employes should be uniformly reduced?" Sirs. W. A. Shorey, bomemaker: "Well, I should say so. They're no better than the rest of us." behind their backs, but most of them earn what they get. Those ham and egg joints in the base ments sort of encourage people to go down there and hang on the brass rail. It looks to me like they might cut salaries of people who have time to spend down there. Licked Again AFTER all the agitation and extravagant claims of the ' wets about the reversal of public sentiment toward pro hibition, their resolutions looking toward a retreat have been ignominiously defeated in committees both of the senate and house. The senate committee submerged bv a larpe vote a bill looking toward modification. Now a house committee by a t vote or 14 to 9 defeated the resolution proposing a constitu tinal amendment passing liquor control back to the states. This was the pet bill of the bi-partisan bloc of wets, but it failed to get over the first hurdle. Representative Linthicum, author of the resolution, asserts he will make an effort to bring it up in the house by petition. But Blanton of Texas fcwv iui c was uuuuaK an iaie gesture. t Te ?riea 8tiu control congress; but that is no reason they should be less vigilant The wets are constantly becom ing more aggressive. In this state a repeal proposal will be voted on at the next election. The dries will have to depend !?Son 8uccess and more on future energetic fighting. 2 JaZ V & p55? campaigns of law enforcement and or education of the evils of use of alcoholic liquors. The mo m?iSfy lafif avd wver, they wiU be licked. The issue of fewears? 1)6 determined Ia the happenings of the next H. T. TTaIIv tiaa v&oi-. A .1 ..... . "Pres. HnoTui' hmm -: ation ef . u"wny pian wnica calls for the cre moh oi eigne new offices, in. ria . ... ... G. G. Looney, farmer: "I don't know. I don't know much about it." TV. F. Neptune, meats, 1933 State: "Not nniform. I think some should be cut, and some not at all." - ' Tack Brown, fight promoter: A person is worth aa much as he does. Some of those people up there may need to go down for their pay check with their hands uuanuM nnrsattTvai . e4 & .uavuu lv wTvnoaaea with functions bo that expensive departments of govern to force him out at this time of night.' " 'Charlie, what are you afraid of?' 'Nonsense, the dark never hurt anybody.' 'It is the boogaboo,' he sim pered. " There are no boogaboos. Did you ever aee a boogaboo?' 'No.' 'Well, nobody ever aaw a boogaboo. There is nothinc to hurt you and a coyote would run away from you. You are no cow ard and not afraid of anything. If you are afraid something will catch you, stand still and say. 'Come on,' and you will stand there until you are gray headed unharmed. Now, go for the sheep. and don t come back without them If it takea all night.' He went, and returned with them an hour later. After he had gone, my wife ehided me with cruelty in forcing me utile lenow to endure such punishment and put the question to tae squarely how I would rel ish such treatment of my boy. " 'That is a very different case. Charlie is not Imaginative and sensitive like most white chil dren; he will not be injured.' "When Charlie entered the house after his return, his dark eyes shone with a light never seen before; and he had the step and visage of a conqueror. 'Charlie, you will sleeo better than yo.u would if you had gone to bed without securing the sheep.' 1i "One day a peddler came to our home and unrolled his pack for trade. There were pocket knives, pistols that shone with fine mountings, watchea of gold and ailver, pins, needles, ribbons, etc. ine children had never seen such a dazzling display. Esoerlal- iy was Charlie latent upon view ing the outfit. I said: 'Charlie, look over this man'a goods, and pick out one article, only one, and I will buy it for you.' "My wife whispered, 'There is a gold watch for which ha ake $100, and we can't afford to bnr that for him. and you must not deceive him. 'Nerer fear. I know what 1 am saying and I repeated the of fer. 'Charlie, look well to the pistols, knives, watches, and pick out one article that you prefer and I will buy it for tou.' My wife was on nettles and the peddler exhibited the gold watch' conspicuously. Hold on there.' I said. lt the boy have his choice.' He did. and Charlie delighted ly snatched up a bolt of very bright, deep red ribbon an inch and a half in width, to the utter disgust of the peddler, who said: 1 II be damned If you don't SYNOPSIS ' ' . Mary Kennedy had youth and beauty and aa Intense fear of pov erty. Almost the last words of her dying mother warned her against marriage to a poor man. Mary re fnaea the offer of a home with her married sister, Katharine. She rent a small room, While sitting la the park making plana for Job, an elderly man of . distinguished appearance engages her in conver sation. CHAPTER II "TT'M not a man that falls for II many girls," he aaid slowly. He - JL drew on Ids cigar and emitted cloud ef fragrant smoke. "I saw yon sitting on this bench when I waa a hundred yards away and X thought yon looked dependable. I seemed to know that, even before I saw yon ware a good looker." She could feel the approval of his gaze but there waa a frankness about him that put her at ease. Ilea who admired a girl openly were not dangerous; besides he waa so much older. Fifty, perhaps. With older men it. was always easier for the girl to retain the upper hand, and, undeniably, he had a keen personal ity that she liked. She knew. In stinctively, that he would not try to hand her a line, to put out any bunk flattery. - "Are yon in the habit of speaking to strange girls?" she inquired. pleasantly malicious. s "Then, I suppose I am to feel flat tered?" ahe said. But trying to ruffle his feelings waa as futile as pecking at a gran ite ledge with a tack hammer. He ignored her small guile. "No, I just thought I'd like to talk to you, because I sort of liked you. The fact la, you look restful to me. I've just come away from one of the other kind one of those beauties that's all fireworks." "Your wife?" "No, thank heavens I She was just threatening to atick a knife in my riba." Mary's brows lifted in Surprise. She wondered how his dignity had Tk a A na aia!w atlrV aa sxTlaf "You poor man tell me more," cih".Ur- she murmured half -mockingly. There waa a alienee, as he puffed on his cigar, before he spoke again. "It's a funny thing that I ahould start in spilling this stuff to a strange girl like you. Do you know I'm supposed to be the most closed mouth man In New York?" "I don't know anything about you." "Well, if you've ever read the sporting page in the papers, you should know who Buck Landers is. That's me. I've been in the public eye promoting prize fights, owning a racing stable and operating amuse ment rackets for twenty years. Done right well at it, too. Stop the first man you meet stop a newa boy even, and hell tell yon who Buck Landers la. Mean to tell me, yon never heard the name before?" A thrill came over Mary. It oc curred to her that she knew Buek Landers by reputation! She had heard his name mentioned dozens of times by men discussing sporting events, and she remembered a roto gravure picture of him last Winter, taken at Miami with a group of mil lionaires. He was as famous as Jimmy Walker almost "I never thought I'd be talking to anyone as prominent as yon Mx. Landers, ahe aaid honestly. "Yea, X may be prominent, but sometimes tt gets a little tiresome to live in the spotlight, he declared. "It gets lonesome sometimes. It does for a fact. Maybe that's why I felt a hunch that I'd just like to ait down and chat a while with some nice sweet girL Aa a rule, X never open up to anybody, but I suppose we'd all be better off if we'd spill the works once in a while. What do yon think?" Mary nodded. "I suppose we all have our troubles, but with all your money I shouldn't think you'd hare to worry about anything." That's what I need to think my self, in the old days," Buck Landers declared, a far-away look in cla steady eyea. Tre learned different. I got a thrill out of pulling off some thing big, but a man cant live on excitement alone he needs some thing quieter. Take New York I can have practically anything X want in this town. Anything that money and pull can get. But those things are not enough to make me happy." It struck Mary that the same words coming from a lesser man would have Bounded silly. But, al ready, she was beginning to feel the fall force of Buck Lander's person ality. Imperceptibly, he drew from her a peculiar allegiance. He waa the strangest man she had ever met, and somehow his strength exuded and fortified her. It pleased her, too, that he could so easily be frank with her. a straneer. She felt a little important. "But haven't you a lot of friends? she queried. "How do I know? I've never needed friends. A lot of guys hang around me because they hope to get something out of me. When I want something I pay for it. If Buck Landers happened to wind up in the gutter, I don't know how many friends he could count on. None maybe." Mary looked at him closely. No, there was little of happiness in his face. He looked as mechanical as a ing wondering if ahe had the cour- age to take advantage of his offer. Back home alone in her tiny rented room, Mary waa still con scious of the impact of a powerful peraoaality. It had been almost like a collision to meet such a man aa Buck Landers. She thought ef her brother-in-law, her father, the boys who had takea her to movies and parties back in the Brooklyn' days before her mother died. She felt kindly toward them all, but there waa no denying they were all vibrat ing feebly on a futile plane of exist ence. They looked at the shew of life from the back row of the gal lery. They fed on scraps from the banquet table. The vital element of power waa not in their blood. Worse, they had no understanding ef the crude world that surrounded them. noasplrauon to wrest what they wanted from Life. Cowards, content with the meagre security of Saturday night's pay envelope. ... Just to meet a man like Buck Landers and talk with him had opened up a whole new era la her thinking. It was not his money alone I've heard 19 aaid," ahe marked, "that you could not have much friendship unless you give out a lot of it in return." His mouth formed a hard, straight line. "I oar my debts in life. Some times, maybe. I do a little more how about you?" "People like me don't matter much, in places like New York,1 Marr aaid philosophically. "I'm just a stenographer." "Got a Job?" "No." Landers got upon his feet. His hat, his cane, the polish of his shoes gave him an almost aggressive smartness. Spare and erect, he was a notable figure. "Any time you want a good job, you call me up at the Metropolis Hotel and 111 put yon in a good spot," he said abruptly. That's not a bluff. Maybe you and X could be friends maybe not Think it over." Without a word further, he turned from her and walked down the graveled path, his cane hooked in his arm, and the blue fragrance of his cigar trailing behind him. For a half hour Mary sat there ponder- that impressed her. Some inexplica ble quality of hard, cold bravery about him commanded a respect she had never before gives to any man. He was ruthless, she imagined, in going after what he wanted and dangerous, too. She was sure he was a dangerous man. It might be dangerous for a girl to see too much of him. But, strangely, the realization did not make her put him out of her mind. It was funny how she kept thinking about him he was an old man. Not old exactly, but beginning to be elderly ... The constant warning of her mother against impoverished mar riage came stealing back into her mind, coloring her meditation. "Bet ter he mn old man e darling than a young man'e elave." It was a prov erb or something, and it sounded pretty cold-blooded, too. There waa a dim foreshadowing of an exciting prosperity when she thought about Buck Landers. There would be no harm in taking advan tage of a lucky break. He had prom ised to get her a job better than anything she would be likely to pick up unaided. It would be silly to tarn back an opportunity. "I am going to call him upV she said with vigorous decision. Once she had made up her mind. all hesitation vanished. After all. it waa the practical thing to de. A girl had to look out for herself. When she telephoned him, two days later at the Metropolis Hotel, his answering voice had a cold pre cision . . . "Yes, certainly I remember yo. Come down and well talk it over . . . Half in curiosity, half ia common sense, Mary presented herself at the desk in the lobby of the Metrop olis and inquired for Mr. Landera. At the, mention of his name the saturnine countenance of the clerk softened into an excess of polite ness. He personally communicated into a small telephone behind the counter. "Mr. Landers says for you to cone right on up," he announced. Te Be CaatiatMd) CeerrTtbt. Kins Feahme 3rkt. I. and there, falling in with those of depraved habits, became diseased and died miserably while a mere youth. But others with white skins did the same. The American army, I believe, is not a moral re form Institution. One company re cruited In Marlon county, mainly an agricultural district, waa com posed almost entirely of young men not addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors or tobacco, and I was Informed by the Hon. W. R. Dunbar, one of them, that only one stuck to his temperate habits. the others soon taking to smoking and drinking, and some of them went even lower in the descending scale." S -e ''Washington, the Man, and the Capital," a timely and great pro duction, will be shown at the El slnore Sunday, Monday and Tues day, and midnight matinee Satur day. Clarence Whitehall, for years leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera company, portrays the part or George Washington with a charming dignity not heretofore shown on the silver screen. This portrayal of the life of Washing ton is authentic; is so endorsed J. M. Clark. General Finance corporation: "I don't believe I do. I think salaries as a whole are down about as low as they should be. However. somevstate employes could stand a . good reduction, while others are just making a living wage." In educational circles. Marie Dree- know an Indian from the around I sler starring In "Emma" Is to be , Wlllard Marshall, hospital elation: "As a policy I would say 'no.' specifically it may be advis able. Depends on circumstances. Wage cutting is not a good pol icy." ment. The department of commerce has recently moved into vast new and magnificent quarters. The secretary of commerce has a pri vate elevator, with its guard and special operator. But to get to this private art, the secretary has to pass two public elevators. The way to reduce government expenses Is to deflate government. That the president has no inclination to do. The best month in the year to see the mountains is February, We say this from our own experience. Nearly always in this month come days perfectly clear, and then the peaks glisten in snowy splen dor. They have had their winter mantles of snow. The atmosphere is free of dust and haze. On such days as w have had lately one may get a glorious view of the peaka and the range from the. hills about the valler. The visibility la excellent. Later on the aW eeta a haze which persists through the summer so that people coming out I tJ" goods, but the squaws prefer- from the east often return disappointed because they didn't get tol ra- see Mt. Hood. These are the days; on these bright, sunny days get out on the housetops and view the mountains. up. 'Charlie, this la your dir Ogle that ribbon until you are tired out.' W "Wlth my wife'a assistant there were festoons noon his arm. and legs, a band with -bows around his black head, and from his neck to his heela flowad streamers that fluttered in the breeze. m Fashionable white people put on finery to please others, but Charlie had no thought of pleas ing otners; it was nurelr self satisfaction; enjoyment coming with the exercise of faculty, aad, I believe, an Innate love of bright colors. What philosopher will show how ecstasy can come from tne vibrations of. red upon the In dian's optic nerve? Are white children so affected and ia it a phenomenon peculiar to child hood? If ao, mature Indians are never more than children, for the prererence for red never fade. There were various patterns and coiora m the calicos of the annu- given in connection with the Washington picture. Editorial Comment From Other Papers berman la its membership. Bend Bulletin. Daily Thought Who, then. Is free? The wise man Who can govern himself. "-Horace. OFFICER TALKS HUBBARD, Feb. If. J. Blinkhorn, the county mUk in spector, gave a talk on sanitation Wednesday before the health class of the Hubbard high school. H. . CLUB TO MEET MACLEAY. Feb. It The home economics club will meet at the hall Monday afternoon to piece a quilt and complete plana for an open grange meeting and bazaar. Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. CO I 'ELAND, M. D. P The Portland Journal prints the belated news that Com'r Han ley has aa Efficiency and Economy plan all worked out fer the high way commission. What a joke! Hanley will be remembered for one sentence: "I vote with the chairman." They are taking the Portland whale on a trip through Washing ton. Buiia us; pickiea whale doesnt smeu very good; and un- pickled . . - - - Oregon will have the laugh on the federal government, which proposes to levy a tax on electricity bUla. Out here we have free power wrtnoat eoet to the taxpayers. m aa m "After my brother's marriage. Charlie waa token to live with him in the little town of Phoenix in Rogue river valley, an unfor tunate change for Charlie. There he waa In company with white boys whe loved his company and who rallied' him for obeying my brother's wife. His early repug nance to feminine control waa re rived to such an extent as to threaten her aafety, and Charlie waa turned over to Captain Tra az of the Oregon Volunteers. He was taken. to Fort Walla Walla, FltOU AN KX-COMMiSSIOXER The new commissioners face a difficult task. In lesa than a year the high morale of the highway department has been shattered. Efficiency has been sadly re duced. Discipline has been de stroyed. Recovery is possible but it will be a slow process and de pendent tor complete success on the cessation of executive inter ference in the administrative af fairs of the commission. Economy and benefits for the taxpayers and the motorist can be more cer tainly secured by an efficient or ganization working in high gear than by all the salary cuts possi ble. The first undertaking of the commission should be to develop tne necessary efficiency and re store the old morale. The new members of the com mlxsloa are able men, highly re garaed in their own communities and wherever known throughout the state. The governor ia to be congratulated on his selections. Oddly enough in their places of residence they represent the same communities that were represent ed by the membership of the or iginal commission, that is. En gene, Portland and . Pendleton. For the first time in its history the commission will lack a lum .REVENTION is bettor than cure, is a saying that can be applied to any aument. It applies particularly to barns. Severe burns are often difficult to cure and In most instances could hare bean pre vented. Burns may produce perma nent deformities which may be ceme lifelong handicaps. We cannot say enough about their dangers. Careless han dling of hot liquids, such as boiling water. bet soup, tea or coffee. Ia the most frequent cause of burns. The scalding is sometimes severe and serious. This accident ia nartlr ulariy dangerous when it involves cnuorea and elderly Indivlduala. scalding causae marked reddening er tne asm. The pain la intense. If ue aua ana uadertyteg structures oamaa-ea, soars I arm. in a mild burn there Is simple reddening ef the akin and bUsters may form. Scars do not occur In vhs type er burn. Treatment of a tad burn should he left to the physician. Hia care lessens the diacoaof ort and nala. abort ena the duration ef toe healing process ana pre Tenia poaaible com. plications. Tet everyone ahould be Dr. Copelaad familiar wBfc the treatment ef burn. Often It la difficult to secure a physician, er he may be delayed In arrtring. ror ue elm Die burn, keep tne air away from the Inflamed area. T tnla end apply a pasta of moistened starch. Qour or baking powder. Where there k marked reddening ef the akin, olive ou, castor eD, vase line or any eoothlag otnUaent may be applied. Ia the mora severe borna. where the paia ia la ten, theaXfllcted per- m may ae placed In a warm tub t which a pound of baking- soda baa a added. Cold water ahould never be used. Wa.Ua waltina- for the doctor warm drinks, sucn aa tea or milk, should riven te promote warmth. The body ahould be wrapped in warm blankets and hot water botUea ap plied te the feet. afuch of. our present knowledxa concerning the treatment of burns cam Rem tne experience! in tne World War. Dm-tar that confuot picric acid waa used for treating beat barns. Recently taaaic add sola Uoa has been used with great sue. cam. Sometimes It Is sprayed oa the painful spots. Severe bums, as X have said aad desire to repeat, require the utmost care and expert attention, as aooa as possible. After the acute symp toms disappear further attonUoa may be demanded. After the soar has farmed, akin grafting and piss, tie surgery are often necessary to prereat aerloua handicaps. The many permanent dlaabftltlae resulting from burns should serv aa a warming against caratosaaeaa which might result la permanent danmge. It is all toe eommon to read about the accidents that can be prevented. Answers to Health Queries ( It R. I am a troubled with would you advise? ef SI aad stuttering what Ia there a cure? Aw Elocution lessons are times verr hateful In such Make Inquiry at your local Board of Education fer information concern- tng their classes f er speech defects. There are such schools-and classes throughout the country. I 'atlas M. O What win build hp the general health? Aj Eating plenty ef good nourish, tng feodV Get regular hears ef rest aad eleep. Exercise daily tn the pen air aad practice deep breathing. Avoid worry and over fatigue. Take eod liver oil as a general tonle aad under. M. R..1C R, How much should a girl of Is. t ft IVa Inches tan weigh, ala a girt of IS. t ft, tan weigh? A They should weigh trrely about 114 aad it pounds. This 1 about the averajre weight fer people of this age and height aa de termined by examination of a large number of persona. few pounds above or below normal Is a matter of - little or no significance. A. B. Q. I am a woman ef II troubled with bronchial asthma. Please taJt me what foods X should take - I have a great deal of gas which naturally aggravates the existing condition. . A. For full particulars send n salt addressed, stamped envelope aad repeat your question. . ;