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PAGi;!qwtfit - ne OREGON STAlMft, 'gar-'drejson,- imf'Bfogrillirie&lClSSi tfoFavor TFxayz Vt; ho F tar Shaft, 4 we" From first Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spracue, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publish - - . Editor-Manager . . . Managing Editor "I Charles A. Sfraguk - Sheldon F. Sackett - Member of the Associated Press ' - Ths Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatch credited to It or not otherwise credited in uui paper. ... I Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: ' A rthur W. i San krau Cisco, atwrm tin. Portland, fiecuritv Bide. Sttarou Bids. ; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bide Eastern Advertising Representatives: r.D.M.0liw Tfuv. ' Kw York. 571 MadUMMt Are. : f i v- I rJChlcaso. N. Micnixan Are. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clas Uatttr. ' Published evtrv morning except Monday. Busineet office, tlS S. Commercial Street. '.'i ; ?t ' I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mall Subscription Rates, In AdyancW. W thin Oregon : Rundar. 1 Mo. f CMts: S Mo. I1J . Mo. IX.M: 1 rear It.QO. Elsewhere t cenU per Mo., er $5.0 for 1 rear to advance. By City Carrier: 45 cents a month: $6.60 a rear In advance Per Copy cents, I- On trains and News Stands cents. Lay Sermdn TARPK DIEM" ' Says east . . . 101 dsyt w come'. Desk Pad. I do not know that I . hay ever beiore noticed tnose woras in fine print on th bottom of my desk pad. They are on the pace for this day, Saturday, March 5 th. And for Monday the line is; "IS days past . . . 299 days to some". It refers to the year so many days gone al ready, so many days remaining. It is for the year 19 J 1 which we entered so jubilantly (or so fearfully) those 14 days ago. Then there were many who won dered how they eonld possibly get through the year, but here they have "gotten through" a sixth of it already. What lies ahead is as much a mystery as what lay ahead of Jan. 1st. It is always easy to compute the number of days past; but tew are the periods which have a def inite expiration date in the fu ture. The year ends always on a Dec. Slst. An office holder may say "three years of my term are past; one year remains". One who undergoes an operation may have the doctor's assurance that in two weeks or three weeks he may leave the hospital, and how eag erly he counts off the days as they pass in anticipation of his release. The freshman In college the first term says: "so many days until Christmas vacation". The woman heavy with child counts the days until her ac couchement. A man on vacation checks the days until he must resume his regular routine of not all of the future pos such certainties. Life it- to come 7 Or a life, for how long Mass Hysteria ITTHE past week has been devoted to mass hysteria. The I infant mi rrf ftnme verv orominent people was feloni ously kidnaped, whereupon the inhabitants of the whole country work! themselves up into a bltffi f unk .from emo tional excitation. By the time the week was (fut the sus pense was terrific, i Nerves universally were frayed ; and there was a universal cry for direst vengeance. Government Authorities themselves crrew frantic, and the president's cabinet gave itself over to deliberation over the snatching nTing. Af.thA Undherch babv. Not since Floyd Collins was pinned But lw wulr nrtiilo mrVklnrino snmo Tfent.iir.lrv cave has there "esses been such a focusing; of mass sympathies on one individual. Th npwsnaners have built un the mass frenzy through I tn rnmf tm Aanraaatnn their nstial methods of exnloitation of events of human in- win it be over? The man is out terest. Press services send their flying squadrons t)f able If work, so many days, and for reporters to cdver the assignment in four dimensions. The" ??'?,yA' jOurnailSUC SOU Bisters cuvereu lxic caae iicawjr aa auijr oo though it had been a triangle affair or a sensational murder story.! The country has been flooded with acres of bum tele choto pictures and artists' drawings of "X marks the spot" etc. Even the i staid Oregonian gave three of its four big heads last Friday to the Lindbergh kidnaping. Of course the world was shocked at the theft of the in fant. He was the world's own baby, as it were, because his father was the world's favorite hero The kidnaping of any 20-month-old infant: would be shocking, and from his pic tures; young Charles Augustus, jr., Jooks very much like a million other kiddies in a million other homes. He is paying the' price of fame, which the million others will not have to pay. i Our sympathies are aroused, but we doubt the virtue of mob-hi'sterics. From coast to coast nerves are jumpy This daily bombardment of news material far in excess of smooth places, its hills, its de- what is essential intoxicates the mob-mind; and the reaction is not wholesome. When the fever cools and the pulse grows ouieter the public then fails to respond to even grosser sins. The intemperate emotionalism of the mass-mind is dispro portionate. It now indulges in an orgy of sympathy over a little babe, but is strangely calloused when thousands of un knowns suffer the pangs of slow starvation. There sis no parent who does not hope and pray for the safe return of the stolen babe: but there need be no great' emotional disorganization among the millions powerless to aid and without kinship to the family. will it be enjoyed? For these and many other items the calen dar of our lives makes no entry. 64 days and 301 days, that makes 365 altogether. That's wrong for 1932 because this is leap year with 366 days. Has the maker of the desk pad made a mistake? No, he hasn't, the extra day is TODAY. It is always TODAY that counts most. The achievements of yesterday, and its disappointments are past. On my desk pad all the 64 pages have been torn off. whether they were full or not. Tomorrow we face with mingled hc$e and fear; we know not how long a road lies ahead of us. its turns, its ruts, I its rocks. Its HERE'S HOW BytjEDSON i i o . : I ' ' . T - - - - WMF" AVj rfkjcC "THE LOVE TRAP" Synopsis Tuesday: More Powerful Than Lightning Man's Impulses Are Godlike But Turned to Woefully Small Ends By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem Man is by natural inclination a god. but some of hit parts are missing. His impulses are godlike. sometimes splendidly so, but he fails to attain godlike results. His life span Is marked by two Inter rogation points and an astonlsher why? why? why I have known jt man to declare with really awesome fervor that he would move heaven and earth If necessary in order to accom plish his purpose. But he was j merely searching for the screwdriver. G scents. TODAY is here. " alive. glowing; or it may be dark and lowering. TODAY is the flat tread on the stairway of life of which yesterday and tomorrow are the risers. The . old Latin phrase "carpe diem" has an epicurean signifi cance, it implies "eat. drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die". It need not have that "sans souci" (without care) meaning:. "Seize the day" may mean to crowd it as full of life and work and genuine happiness and serv ice as Browning's "Pippa" filled her holiday. In spite of our dis illusionment over the past and But what does It matter? We can know no more than has been given us to know, and it la per haps well that we cannot. It is certain that few of us accomplish what we should accomplish with the light we have. I'm quite pos itive that I don't. We will go on, I reckon, follow ing our impulses and indulging our likes and dislikes and striving to do tho things which are not In our line at all and making the us ual noise about It as long as we stay here. Critics will continue to e r 1 1 1 e lie, ofttlmes mistakenly, commentators will comment, and the majority of us will favor them with the customary modicum of attention. 'fiv'V-" iff i D. H. Baker on a Big Scale Vtr Tnr TTT ri:-r-: . knov Kta TTa im 4-Via w. ivvjjxrii ui wuo j uiasionmenc over tne past and I tt-. iif. .v,- nr.A. .i. jprize gadabout, never missing a chance to mayorbaker our apprehension for the future, though the imitation is largely II- himself over the second largest state in the USA. Ruhl, Medford, sunning himself in the southland, sends his paper the following log of a week in Rolph's hie: ' Monday I "- Flew from San Francisco to Sacramento. Planted giant redwood in honor of Washington's birthday. Viewed mili tary parade. Spoke at Washington dinner. Tuesday ! Flew to San Francisco from Sacramento, to recite the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere at Humboldt evening high school. j Wednesdays I Attired as full admiral, attended navy celebration at float Island. Saluted as he received the 17-gun salute, j Posed for movie newsreel. Thursday ! Flew again to Sacramento. Presided aa, dirt farmer, at i luncheon of sUte board of agriculture. Posed for picture with young ladies representing California association con tention at Oroville. j j . - Friday "j Flew to San, Francisco. Photographed as Judge of ! Washington essay contest. As lrrigationlst, attended meet- ; Ing of joint water commission. Flew back to Sacramento. ! j -Saturday I Motored to Auburn, where he erected marker on site ! of first gold discovery In Placer county, and related ex periences as early! gold prospector. On to Lake Tahoe with Cinema Actress Anita Page and her papa tor dinner and dance (full dress; and boutonnlere). I . Sunday Crowned Anita Paga as queen' of National Ski tour nament, having picture taken in toboggan cap and snow hoes. Motored back to Sacramento. - today is ours for use or wastinr. I know the world has grown cyni cal over bope deferred: but there remains a refreshing; truth in that song with which Pippa greeted the dawn of her holiday: "Ood'a in his heaven: all's rizM with ! tne world." Yesterd ays Of Old Salem Towa Talks from The States man of Earlier Days March 6. 1007 Residents of Broadway street in North Salem met last nlcht to take up the matter of making part of the city one of the prettiest re sidential sections of the capital city. They considered the lowering oi tne street grade ana macadam ising that highway. -t Dana Faces the Facts MARSHALL DANA, Portland Journal candidate for the senate, has just made perfectly clear his stand on the Taking cognizance of tho threat I of employes of the state asylum to strike if employes now paid S60 or more a month were not includ ed in the salary increase annro- priatlon of $20,000 voted to the legislature, the asylum board yes- teraay decided to apportion the fund among all employes. lusionary. An observing person may see a quiet parallel of world history Alexander the Great, Na poleon and Mussolini with all the reet strutting their stuff In al most any village ay, and in al most any poultry yard. Years ago I was somewhat giv en to reading the poetry of Ed ward Young. I seldom read the poetry of Mr. Young ta these days, because it produces In me what Annie Rooney calls tne wlm-wam. A bit heavy, you know. Not overly cheerful. But full or meaning too full for comfort, much of it. He says of man 'Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal ! - insect infin ite! S A worm' a god!" And there, Mr. Man, yon have it. Take your choice. What are the wild waves say ing from beyond the western sea? Waahee washes, perhaps. Wash- ee-outee, maybe. Hard to tell. There will be no more toll gates on the Wilson river road, leading to the TillnmnAV Mnntrv . Th a vexing problem of prohibition.. He made it in a speech, so days of ton gates for that region, now there can be no doubt of. his position. We quote him la general bottied-up condi- thus: I j "I am dry. I am a newspaper man and trained to face ! facts. Evils have grown up under enforcement of the pro hibition law whien must be dealt with. The government must take hold with a strong hand. It is a weak hand now. The Issue rests squarely with the people. I favor a vote by the people on I the liquor issue, and I still believe that the' majority should rule.' Which indicates! that while as a newspaper man Dana 'may be trained to face facts; as & candidate for office ha is trained to dodge them. Certainly his statement is calcu la ted to win votes from both sides of the house. Everybody, more or leas, is wondering- as to the location of the corner around which prosper ity has been lurking for two years tlon. are about over. It la expect ed to have two steam railroads and at least one electric one. March 6, 1922 Unless the city attorney gives an opinion to the contrary, Salem win oner an attractive camp grounds to tourists, as a result of action by the city council last night. The council approved plans lor renting the park and Its later purchase. New View This question was asked about town yesterday by Statesman r porters: "Do you enjoy spring gardening? Why or why not?" Mrs. Cora ReJd, courthouse i 'No, I haven't pnt in a garden nor rill L because I hare no apace. certainly would put In a garden if I had opportunity, and I would have it in by now." I Mnch of the argument In favor of the lame duck bill for chang ing tne ante oi congressional sessions is that there is a tsnn or, congress alter tne election in wmcn "repudiated" members sit and nelp make laws. ! Yet these same members in the case of the house, were the ones who were triumphantly elected only two years netore, it is rather a sad commentary on the fickleness of the people tnat so many members should be "repudiated" just two years iter iney were eiectea. ! Too bad some of these abandoned tort cut-rate gasoline in. farm silos can't be used to Aiaerman vandevorrs propo sal that Street Commissioner Wal ter Low ihave charge of construc tion of sewers precipitated a bit ter clash last night between city council factions. Alderman Suter declared be had intended to re commend that Alderman Jefferson be given charge of several thous and dollars worth of. sewers to be undertaken soon. This, Alderman Marcus opposed. Mrs. Eck Dotoit. Clear Lake! 'I sure do.. Because it's healthy work. Besides, gardening saves lots of expense. When one can raise foodstuffs It makes living good bit easier. Charles PowelL cterkt "X like It, bnt I don't do any. Too much pavement around where I live." Benefit Play Cast Named at Hubbard; : Committees Listed HUBBARD, March I Coble di Letptnaaae, as director, has thos Sn th followinr t rV. l JJ to be given for the bene fit of the community club: Jean tte and Dorothy McKey. Helen and Anna Knight, Marie de Lee f '"f8. Orr. Barrett. Frances louu Grlmps, and Neva Me- Kenxle. The directors of the newly or ganised Hubbard community club met last week and appointed the xouowing committees: publicity, . mt. v. auifj program, B. u Johnson. Mrs. Nellie Cornell and Mrs. George orlmps: refresh. menta. Mrs. H. I Carl, Mrs. Jul- in siauner, urn. R. C Painter, airs, i m. scnoiL and Ed O. Er lekaoa; alck relief. Mrs. H. I. Ad ams. Mrs. Alice Weaver and Mrs. O. H. Boje; press correspondent, su Mark Ponlsen. city recorder i T Atrt't A It an TW nru 9 A-n 't have any back yard for It. But used to, raised some potatoes dnr- 1-. ... V. mr.'mM At Family Residence cents apiece. I like It for re- reauon .ana exercise, a especially like to raise strawberries." I Albert Pack Passes FALLS CITY. March I. Albert Pack, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Pack, . pasted away at th family nome her Thursday. ' His death was caused by Inflammatory rneamatism, ; Dob Nicholson, policeman i "Oh. 1 1 don't mind It. Bnt X dont have la Jot of time. I sur did a lot when I was a kid." ' GIRL TO MR3HK8 ' AURORA. Mar.. S Mr. and Mrs. William Marsh are th par ents or a little dauxhter. which la taeir tottrtn child, alt daughters. Daily Thought "Beauty I truth, truth beauty.' TALMADGB past. Mel Brent thought he' had found it the other day. But It wasn't prosperity that was lurk ing tkere. Nor was it the sheriff and that's where I fooled you, didn't I? It was a desDerate ren- tleman with a gun, and he rob bed Mel of 65 cents and four two cent stamps. Spring is said to be Inrkins- around the corner, too. Something as a matter of fact, is forever lurking around the corner. Not al ways something so desirable as spring. The lurking around the corner suggestion doesn't appeal pleasantly to me. Aside from be ing badly overworked. It is un pleasant in its nature. Too mueh deviltry lurking around the corner. Mary Kennedy, pretty secretary, becomes engaged to Buck Landers, wealthy snorts promoter, who is well older. Later, If ary meets young Steve ICoore, Landers ward. They are attracted to on another immediately. Landers asks Steve to entertain Mary while he Is out of town The bond between the young couple grows but thoughts of Landers form a barrier. Mary teus Btev she does not want to marry Landers. One eveninc Steve takes Mary In his anna. Then, con science Stricken, be tells her they must not see each other again. Next day. Landers' former sweetheart calls ow. Mary and threatens her. Mary longs for Steve bnt days pass with no Word from him. Finally he comes te say he ts. going west. 1 CHAPTER IV. "41 HALL ws do something to- night, Steve?" she asked Sw swiftly. "No 111 just walk alonz wita you a little way now, and let it sjo at that.; There's no good fooling around. I jnst didn't feel like sneaking: out of town without tell ing you, : though." He meant it she would never see him again. It was going to end Just like this on a public street and, for a moment, she had a pang of desperate fear. Without him New York would be stone dead all of hie unutterably dreary. With out th sharp joy of hop . . . "I , dona want yon to go!" sh said suddenly and uncontrollably. "I want to see a lot of yon. And yon wanted to see n lot of me too ths other: night. Oh, Steve, I dont want yon: to go I" Her voice aching. stripped of all pretended indiffer ence, j "I m sorry," he said, briefly po lite. His words were as hard and cold as his countenance. "But why. Stave, why did you de cide to leave? Was it something did? Something about Buck? That night in -the taxi . . . You cared lot for me that night, Steve . . . you know yon didl" Her deeper self knew that she was too -bold that this talk was too wild.;; She had not been able to control the rising gust of feeling. But she had to check it or, in an other moment, she would be beg ging him pitifully to stay. It would make him loathe her if she did a thing like that . . . "I'm not worth missing," he said sharply, i There was n faint nerv ous quiver on his lips. "I tell yon I ought to get out and I'm going to. If my will-power had been stronger I wouldn't have seen yon this last time, even." She saw that he, too, was suffer ing. He looked for all the world as though he had deliberately set his face muscles in n certain pattern, and was holding a stony expression with desperate effort. "Is there anything on earth that will make you stay?" she demanded suddenly, as her heart. began to swell and melt. "Oh, Steve, I've mad yon unhappy. I've somehow ruined your start in New York your career. If s all my fault. dldnt want t make yon unhappy, Steve I can't bear to see you look like this. Let me do something. IH do anything you say " He was paler than sh had ever seen him before. He kept avoiding her eyes ... "Why do you say things like that to me, Mary?" he demanded. "It's hard enough to pull out, without you making It n thousand times harder. I toll yon, I've made np my aund to go." Ho had mad un his mind I will-power of a man was a fore of unknown ' strength to Mary. It sounded terrible. But eh wanted him to 1 stayah wanted aim. wanted him I It was a matter of instinct, not mind. "I dont mind if yon think I'm a foel," sh declared unexpectedly. "I cant help it, Steve I'm not going to let you go. I dont ear what yon say I dont car about anything. All I know is that you're not going to leav New York. It got some thing te say about that Oh. Stem. pleas let me have something to say about It I Give m tonight let's not part right her in th street and never give each other th come over me, but my heart will break if you leave, I couldnt bear Steve fastened his gray eye poo her; he put his hand beneath her chin and turned her face np te aia. "You're lovely, Mary. Lovely eyes, like th dark bin sky at night I dream about your.eyes I dream about all of you." "I want yon te dream about me, Steve. I dream about you, toe. Let s keep together." ' His Jaw was set tight Slowly, dangerous fires were beginning to burn in his eyes, and sh frightened and thrilled. "I don't mind if you think I'm s fooL I can't help It Steve. I m not going to let you go." chance to find out th real truth. Whatever wrong, Steve, IH make it right! Only dont go off this way without giving m a chance te straighten everything up. If you're worried about Buck Landers IH never see him again. Give me to night . . ." "You'd better be careful with me," ne told her grimly. "I'm onxy a human being after all." But Steve surely a girl has as much right as a man to say to say anything she wants to and do any thing she wants to, Steve. I am as free as a man I make my own liv ing. I'm not ashamed to tell you, Steve, that I do care for you you dont know how much." She was at a pitch of strange ex citement Yes, she knew she was throwing herself at his head. Nice girls didn't do that Men despised that sort of thing but a ferocious flame was burning in her breast Something entirely new had hap pened to her life had set her per sonality on fire, and she had no power to extinguish the flames. There were beads of perspira tion on his forehead. "I tell you this is dangerous, Mary. You dont rea lize." f dont care." They stopped and stood beside a doorway. Sh eonld feel Steve's hand like a clamp on her arm. "I told you I was only human,' h said. "AH right then act like one,' sh said with bewildering madnesi "If yon go, IH never be happy again. Fm happy when rn with you, Steve. I was never happy be fore in my life. Why cant you stay and be happy too? Is there anything I do that displeases you? Tell m what I ean de to pleas Thevou. Steve. J dont know whara It will mean the end oi my friendship with Landers," he said. I'm warning you, Mary you'd better be sensible. Do you mean what you say do you know what you want?" She was through with discretion she was ready to east it to the winds. All she knew was that she was desperately determined to hold him. No longer was she the Mary Kennedy of the past She was n new, tumultuous creatur, an utter stranger to herself. "I tell you nothing matters I" she cried. "Fm not foolish and tiresome. Steve. You dont know me yet you're going to like me. IU make you like me." His hand dropped from her arm. Something about his eyes loosened, relaxed. If I went away now my soul would be burning in hades as long aa I lire." The words came out with a kind of groan, "I'd curse myself forever. You're wiser than I am, Mary. Bnt dont expect me te marry yon now I cant. Fm prac tically broke, and I ha vent any prospects. There's not n thing I can offer you." "Fm not asking you to marry me, Steve. All I say is dont leav me." "You make it sound dangerous enough, Mary." "I dont want to marry you," ah said. "Why can't we just be happy without worrying?" He frowned thoughtfully. "AS. right Bnt Fm not in a mood to ait with you in a stuffy movie or a res taurant If we're going to b to gether we've got to be alone." Her eyes were blurred, her puis beating wildly. (Ta B Coatiasss) Elms Tmturm Sradkat. las. Life even In the quietest Dlacea is exciting for some of us. For others of us, no matter what the place. It is a dreary drag. It is not ta tauit of life that it falls to entertain. Entertainment is enter tainment only when it is accord ed appropriate reception. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS A ten-year-old child has lust opened my door and put her head into the room. "Mr. L- was shot and killed this afternoon." she announce; Th news is start ling, shocking. My old friend L t Where? how?" I gasp. "At th movies, of course." she says. "It was a swell pitcher he was in. He ought to ha' been shot. He he got tough with the lady." I was greatly relieved. It must have been a wonderful picture." X said. And Mr. L was shot! Swell I Did it hurt him much?" "You bet! he writhed somethln' fierce." How pal and insipid th penny dreadfuls of yesteryear do seem! Is it may I ask, easier for yon to say yes than no? To put it in another way, are yon n wilier or a wonter? Perhaps you've never given the matter any thought No reason that I know of why yon should, only it seems to me there are a great many weeping willers in the world. Total of "extras" la Hollywood, reported by Captain Fawcett'a mo vie magazine, 18,000. Total of Jobs S00. Seems a fin opening for a young. person in search of fellow feeling and plenty of it I reckon it's a tossup si to which suffers th more bodily misery, th Individual . with th fat Job who eats too much or th Lon with no job who doesn't eat enough. Phil 8heridan in Oregon: a S At th dedication of th mill-; tary block house at Dayton city; park Aug. 23. 1112, M. C. George, congressman for Oregon from 1881 to 1885, delivered the prin cipal address, preserved In the Oregon Historical society Quar terly for March, 1114. Briefly reviewing the address: In the winter of 18S5 and 'S8 the settlers of the Willamette valley, appsehensire of the spread of th Yakima outbreak among th In dians that were gathered at th Grand Rond reserve, assisted by the U. 8. troops, began buUdlng on the hill on the rim of that re serve, near which the Tillamook highway now runs, the old block house as n fort, surrounding It with a stout stockade for refuge and defense. 1 V Afterwards the block house was removed to th agency on th re serve about three miles distant That day, Aug. 28, 1812. the old block house, hiving been moved to Da yt cm was dedicated as a mon ument in memory of General Joel Palmer, th founder of Dayton and donor of th ground- through th efforts of public spir ited citizens there and with th consent of th government se cured by the aid of Oregon's dele gation in congress. General Palmer was Oregon's first superintendent of Indian af fairs, and he It was who .assem bled the various Indian tribes on X suppose whiskers have no' ap preciable weight, yet the chin of the average man seems to lift an inch or two after he has been shaved. ; Nobody, it seems to ma. nays mueh attention to folks who us violent expletive habitually and without' occasion. Nobody ducks whoa they say something. When such folks ar really la a tamper, they mlghj as well be ant so far as . getting results is concerned, and It's nobody's fault but their own. - .- Salem Is growing up. It 1 no longer, a plac wher everybody knows everybody els and wher r attracts tta- tlon. W ar less Interested la births than we were a few years ago, and in deaths and in other matteri outside our immediate en vironment1 Actually, there ar youngsters, now in Junior high school -whose birth we had never heard of. and ther ar folks rest Ing on the hll! south, of the city whose deaths passed unnoticed. and this despite th fact that they or soma: of their, people war one acquaintances of ours.' And th dog com to think of It X dont know a dog by nam any more, and Fused to know a dosen. It Is nne t nave th old town grow into a elty nr it -la, and I wouldn't aara It otherwise bat there Is something, Jnst a bit of saflness in it jMtthaajn th reservation, and largely through his influence th old block house was erected, after wards known as Fort YamhllL General Palmer, fearing trouble, deemed It necessary for a force of u. o. troops to be there to main tain order and Insure safety. t General Phil Sheridan in his Memoirs says that General Wool assigned him from Fort Vancou ver to the Grand Ronde early in ' and tnat some time prior to his arrival at Grand Ronde the government had aent the first troops to this station under com mand of Lieut Wm. B. Haxea. afterwards General Hacen of the signal corps. So Sheridan arrived at Hazen's camp April 25. -'II, with his dragoons, relieving Ha zen and his force. S Sheridan, then a second lieu tenant had Just arrived at Fort Vancouver from the district around Th Dalles, where he and his men had aided in th rescue at the Middle Block Hons at th Cascades of 47 men, women and children besieged there after an attack -of th Yakima, Klickitat and local Indians on March 2f. U Hasen had assisted In construct ing th block house and post buildings, and Sheridan continued th work, giving his whole time to th task for -a wall after his arrival at Grand Ronde. Said Mr. George: V "It may be of Interest to yon Dayton. citizens to not that Phil Sheridan in his Memoirs says that th reserve Is about 25 miles southwest of Dayton. Oregon. He evidently regarded Dayton as the center of the universe, and meas ured things .from it" Farther along. Mr. Georg said: When I was fa Washington City 'll-5). Sheridan had be cetm th lieutenant general at th head at the army, bat his memory -was ' atQl , alert ta th scenes of fats Oregon experiences. II was asfecially foad of burnish ing p his old Chinook, and took delight in: carrying on ear. fre quent conversations la th eld In dia dialect. ; When he saw m passing in th corridor before his open office door h would hail V.M Klahowva tllaknm. mlka h. ak'chaco cop nlka house. 8 do nesika skookum klosh wawa. Nlka hylu cumtux. nncutty mika Grand Ronde lUIhee.' Around ns might hare been sitting senators or Jud ges or generals, but no matter. Sheridan would talk in classic Chinook, and I in rusty Jargon all to th consternation of tho assembled, who cudgeled their brains over th Strang language to which they were forced hut ln terested listeners, wondering whether It was learned Greek or possibly ancient Sanskrit .... S Yon doubtless recall Senator Nesmith's experience durinx th war. Some officer in th army of th Potomac sent un a telerram In Jargon to the senator, which. however, fell into Secretary Stan ton's hands as a suspicious document "Stanton readjusted his classes and took a good look nt it and then called in several advisers; but no one could figure it out It appeared to be a diabolical slot and probably' treasonable. Things looked serious until by chance K was nanned to Gen. Rufus Ingalla. who readily saw that - ft waa a mer Invitation in Chinook te come down to th seat of war and bring a bottle of the best brand of whisky presumably for medi cal purpose. W Is "The old Indian jargon Is dis appearing. General Sheridan who spoke it fluently, calls It th court language of th coast tribes. It would be of historical impor tance to preserve in this museum (th old block house) record translation of this old common tongn of Hudson's Bay Indian times.- "Though mainly a trader's lan guage It was mad np of many' words In common ns by ths In dians. Through ft i th. Indian by well known accents and gesture eonld express, of tea even elo quently, his heart amotions ; and all. along th coast they took tt quit naturally ... . . u . .V - "Block house ar symbols of the pioneer past They were scat tered far and near ta Oregon aai Washington. They wer outposts of civilization. How ' prollO thought Is Inspired as w look at these time scarred walls brought down from th past . ' w . - ' "I congratulate our state that the old wooden military block (ConUnVpnpage l)