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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, Jnly 22. 1932 ),Nq favor.. Sways Us; No Fear Shall Am" il From First Statesman. March 23. 1851 THE STATESMAN 'PUBLISHING CO. ) Chabixs A. Snucur, Sheldon F. SxCKSTTPubU$ker$ Cbaklcs A. Spbacus - Editor-Manager - Sheldon F-Sackett - - - I Managing Editor r Member of the Associated Free 'Tb Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion ot all news dispatches credited to It or not etberwlae credited to tola paper - ... -- . -.' Pad fie Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur v. Strpea, Ino. Portia 1.4. Security Bids. Baa Francisco. Sharon Blds-Z Los Anseles. W Pao. Bids. J Eastern Advertising Representatives: " rord-Paraons-Stecher. Inc. New Tor. 171 lladlaoa Ave. : t Chicago. 6 N Mlchlsan Ave Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, at Second-Clatt Hatter. Published every morning except Monday. Businett off re tli S. C.ftmmtTtiai Street. I " SUBSCRIPTION RATES: "Mall Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon: Dally and 'Sunday. 1 Mo SO cents; Mo. $1.25; Mo. SS.Z; 1 year 14.00. ! Elsewhere SO cents per Mo or $5 00 tor I year in advance. By City Carrier: 45 cent a month; IS.OO a year In advance. Per Copy S centa On trains and News Stands I cents. The Fence Hop is ON! f Chaos in Higher Education TJIGHER education In Oregon is in chaos. It has become X A' progressively worse under the administration of the board of higher education. Part of the responsibility lies in the wording bf the law under which thelward was establish ed. But the larger portion rests with the board itself whicn for vacillation, errors in judgment and utter failure to tunc tion is almost without parallel in state history. iThe people have been patient under promises that things would get better, that as soon as this was done or that was done everything would be all right. Instead affairs have grown constantly worse until only a wreck remains on the campuses of our higher institutions of learning. Nobody knows where he stands, what he is to do today or what he will be doing tomorrow. Authority is divided, responsibility is . shattered. The board itself is so uncertain of its meth ods of functioning that committees got to fighting in open board meeting the other day. Another incident of the board meeting on Tuesday illus trates the absurd division of authority which the board has made. The board made the executive secretary at Salem re sponsible for the operation of the properties. Dr. Lindsay knows nothing about the physical plant of a college so he hired a man as "director of properties" which of course means another job and another salary and another addition td the overhead of the system. The new director of properties goes to Eugene and fires the head janitor or somebody. The university administration was immediately vexed and de manded that the control of such persons be in the hands of the campus executive where it most assuredly belongs. The board, which suddenly has decided not to back up on its bum guesses, got its choler up and refused the request. - So now when Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall wants the heat turned on or off or wants a window opened on the third floor he will have to write (or telephone) the chancellor; and the chancellor will take the matter up with the secre tary of the board in Salem, and the secretary will first get out a questionnaire as to when the window was opened last and for how long, what the reason is for wanting it opened now, how many cubic inches of air will be admitted if the wind is not blowing. Then after he gets the questionnaire he will take the matter up with the director of properties. And the" director of properties when he comes back from La r Grande will take it up with the head janitor at Eugene and the window will be opened or closed ; if Dr. Hall hasn't f aint- ; ed in the interval or kicked the window out. But such is the glorious SYSTEM which by steel bands ; and copper rivets the state board of higher education is foist ing on the people of this state. It is a system which breeds uncertainty, indecision, vexation, delay and COST. For while ; money is saved by pinching salaries of instructors more em- ployes are added to the overhead offices ; and a costly bu reaucracy is being built up at the expense of the taxpayers. It is such a condition of demoralization which the ed- ucational system of Oregon has come to. We are told now to i wait till we get a chancellor. Very well; we shall wait for some months before we get one. He will come in. It will take him a year or two to get acquainted with the situation and itn problems. He will be faced with hostility at every turn; he will encounter institutional and local jealousies; and he will find his authority handicapped and crippled by the im possible scheme of administration which has been set up. It requires no stretch of the imagination to predict failure for your imported chancellor. His only hope of success would ' be to get the board entirely to revamp its type of administra- : tive organization. , - ' The Statesman is profoundly interested ixi higher educa tion in Oregon; and in the prosperity of the institutions. We . want to see the higher institutions of Oregon flourish and grow strong. Now we find morale shattered, faculfipA ripvntinc tripii fnercrie tn fillincr fmt doctrinaire questionnaires, students disgusted. And we have lost all hope that the board will ever bring order out of chaDs. Consolida tion would end many of the troubles and would in the long run sa ve money to the state ; but consolidation is a terrible price to pay for the failure of the state board; and how long w6uld it be before the voters would want to "unconsolidate ? We have no ready-made solution: It looks as though the state schools would flounder in the morass, would definitely retrograde and lose standing which they can ill afford to lose, until the people or the legislature do something to end the present demoralization. ' The Murder of the ISlight Club Lady " : By ANTHONY 1A BBO 1 BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS- Whea politics was hot: A. J. Baldwin, Salem auction eer and wit, who was "Specs" or Annan Baldwin in his Marlon, In diana, home, keeps In touch with the folks hack there in the place of his boyhood and early man hood, and they keep track of him. e 'e "b Rose B. Marsh writes for the Marion, Indiana, Mirror, a sort of cousin to the Bits for Breakfast column, but under the title of 'Marion in the Mirror." In a re cent Issue she printed a letter from S. A. Russell to Charles Baldwin, grandfather of A. J. Baldwin. The date was June 8, 1843. The letter informed Charles Baldwin that Dr. L. G. Thompson of Fort Wayne had been prevail ed upon to take the field for congress, and as the field was large and the time short, the doc tor - was placing great reliance upon the activities of his friends, of which he was one. He told Baldwin: 'He (Dr. Thompson) Is a true whig, and the following letter I have Just received from him will acquaint you with his views upon the slavery question, a . . a . . - in wnicn a large portion of our citizens feel a deep interest: "b "He says: 'While I would not interfere with the domestic insti tutions of the slave states insured to them by the constitution of the United States, yet I am opposed to, and would oppose the exten sion of Blavery in every shape and form. I have been long of the opinion that individuals of both political parties have DIS GRACED themselves by truck ling to the dictation of southern neighbors, and honestly believe that MORE THAN HALF THE EVILS under which we labor at the present time are owing to the truckling of northern men with southern principles. " 'Entertaining as I do these principles, I would, if elected to congress, vote against the annex ation of Texas to the United States under any pretense what ever. I would vote to PROHIBIT the traffic of human flesh in the District of Columbia, and I would also vote to REMOVE THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT to a free state if that disgraceful traffic could not be done away with. e S " 'I believe it to be the right of every American citizen to en joy and express an opinion, eith er by word, resolution or peti tion, on all subjects connected with the administration of the government, and I look upon the zist rule or tne House of repre sentatives, generally known as the 'gag' rule, and the resolution censuring the Hon. Mr. Giddings of Ohio, for having presented certain resolutions to said house. without permitting said Giddings to be heard In his own defense, as a DISGRACE to a nation claiming to have attained the maxim of human liberty.' " - S Mr. Russell told Mr. Baldwin mat ne looxea upon tnat as a plain and fearless statement of "principles that no GOOD CITI ZEN should condemn," and he added that any one Interested might see the original letter of Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. Buying Washington Licenses THE figures indicate that Oregon is suffering from a squeeze play performed by motorists in this state, es pecially those who live in Portland where their identity may b5 concealed more easily. Washington has a $3.00 license fee and its license year is the calendar year. So now a motorist may get a half year license in Vancouver for $1.50. So the disloyal Oregon may go across the river, buy a half-year's license, Come back, ffet a thrfx mnntria rwrmit fn t Viia ctafp. At the end of this time he can get a 9 months license in Ore- scribed diet, a fron ; Ar nnooiKlw Vi i i. il. I ti;ii wftH tfcia t; " ' ' c xuajr uiivc uacn acruss me river ana on return get a new permil pood till January and thus beat the TMr!??n ?ut .f at least a half-year's license money, i While trnYstate is selling only half as many licenses as a year aeo. at Vnnriivm Vi& a. r t-.e - shows a biffinTt.f.wvrSWij iuui-ear licenses nsual amount of water and nrinaUs t-uuws a Dig gain. 1 ne state nonce snnnl o-of Vmo-tr -nA w.n I n. a i ... k... up a lew dozen of these chiselers. If thev wer finprf are characteristics of children with apiece they would make a good example to several hundred others. CHILDREN as well as adults may suffer from diabetes., As in the adult, the body of the afflicted child is unable to deal prop erly with the sugars and starches ot the diet, and the excess sugar accumulates i n the body. In former years diabetes in childhood was almost always fatal, but I am glad to say that conditions have improved amaz ingly. As a re sult of the dis covery of insu lin, and with a earexui pre- r - 1 child with this disease may grow to a normal adult tue. Because the disease is not expect ed to develop in children, it is often overlooked. It should always be suspected if a child drinks an nn- n Children with diabetes usually are briarht and aukklr realise the importance of the treatment wheat the -disease is explained to thsm. Tiny readily understand tne aecei sity tor strict diet, and may require the same food as diabetic adults. These little natients should he taught to eat slowly and chew their food carefully, and it la best for them to rest before and after znealsl If insulin is given, the child should rest after It is riven. Del ore eating. A- definite schedule should be ar ranged for each day, for diabetU children who are taught habit and routine overcome many 01 US handicaps of this disease. School work should be encouraged, but never forced. Not all cases of diabetes require insulin only those where sugar persists in spite ox rigid diet. Ureal benefit is derived from insulin whan properly used. The Giving of Insolia of Cyril G. Brownell of Portland has been charged with the crime The complainant is Dr. MacPherson. one of the sponsors ot the in itiative. This step bears out the comment at The ct.to- ' Zrl nesday that the lifting of the petitions was not a hoax but "deal " The arrest of Brownell does not end the matter. He is entitled ta and will recMve a fair trial. But the probe needs to eo fnrtw if urowneu 1 guilty of the offense. What waa the inn- ,Js him to take petitions? If money passed, who put up the money? Per-1 ""UBt wa mt may prove emDarrassing". v Tonight the Dufwin Flayers will anneap t th. riot ' senting a New York comedy SUCCeSS. Ronffll " WAmon' tit. a r. . v I know anything about the slavers or their aMMa v. . I said to have played It a thousand times in Portland. But it willl be a treat to see a professional company again. In fact It would do the people of this tpwa good to dress up and go to the the-ay-ter uu bco mi bbuw wun iiesn ana piooa performers. diabetes. They have excellent ap petites also, yet lose weight. If these signs are present the child should be taken to a physician for examination, and a test made for sugar. :. E Reelat the Diet If diabetes is found, the child's diet should be regulated by the fam ily doctor, and If sugar continues after a strict diet has been followed. it will be necessary to use insulin. The amount of insulin given at the beginning of treatment U grad ually decreased, so that ersntually the child receives a minimum amount. Never give insulin unless directed to do so by a physician. Inaulin. which lowers the amount of sugar in the blood, should be fol lowed by food to prevent the so called "insulin reaction' that occurs when the surer suddenly drops low. Many a parent pecomes vnauiy alarmed when informed that a child has diabetes. Under proper care the dlabetla child need not be con sidered diseased. White the dia betic ehud cannot eat Ilka a normal child, his activities, growth and de velopment need not be handicapped. Dr. Thompson. S (History minded people will recall or at least be interested in the incident of the application of the famous (or infamous) gag rule of the lower house ot con gress of that day. The friends of slavery were in the saddle then. and they brooked no interference with the Institution. The occa sion was the offering by Joshua R Giddings, congressman from Ohio, of a series of resolutions in the lower branch of congress, the bur dan of them being that "every man nad a light to himself, and that the slave holding laws of the southern states, however potent they might be at homo, and what ever sanction they might receive from the federal constitution." were void beyond their boundar ies. It was a note of defiance that brought a vote of censure with the gag rule clapped on, so that Mr. Giddings had no chance to ev en have a heating.) Some people who listened in on the talkfest yclept the demo cratic national convention at Chicago a few days back imagin ed they were gettlnr absent treatment to something hot. But they were mistaken. That is. compared with the political bat tles waged in the rectlc years pre ceding the war of 1881-5, by the side of which the affair in the windy city was an old fashioned quilting party. The columnist of the Marion Mirror added: "Charles Baldwin was one of the early settlers who operated the underground railroad, in connection with Mos es Bradford, Nathan Coggehall and a number of other northern men who believed in treeing the colored people from the bonds of slavery, and Grant county play ed a prominent part in aiding the escape ot hundreds of slaves from their southern masters." As noted above, Charles Bald win was the grandfather of A. J. Baldwin of Salem. Nathan Coggeshall was a great uncle of Mrs. Alice Edmundson of this city; her grandfather's brother, Mr. Baldwin remembers that Levi Coffin, a prominent Quaker preacher, was the chief passenger agent of that particular branch of the famous underground rail road, besides being the general manager. a e A great uncle of President Herbert Hoover was one ot the directors. He waa a member of the wholesale drygoods concern of Shipley, Hoover & Co., Cin cinnati, across the Ohio river from Louisville. The runaway slave would be secreted at Cin cinnati, and thence spirited away under cover ot darkness to Rich mond, Wayne county, Indiana; thence by the same processes transferred to Marion, Grant county, in that state; thence to Wabash, Wabash county and from there to Michigan, and across Lake Michigan into Cana da. There, on British soil, ipso - . j SYNOPSIS Lela Carewe, The Night Oak Lady, sad her gaest, Christine Quires, are atystarievaly saardored la the farmer's apartaestt. Seer pleas were the instruments ef death. The police suspect Gay Everett, the last perse to see Christ! a alive. Lola had blackmailed Everett He, however, elalau that Christina dis covered a plot to kill Lela aad feared for her ewa life hwaaae ef k knowledge. Police Commissioner TOauner Celt leans that a yeang Paria bank clerk, named Basil Boa- eaer, levea Leu, Alter robbing a bank to bay her a ruby. Basil dis appeared. His parents sold medical laboratory spedmema. Mrf. Carewe, Lia-s metier, became hysterical at the meatiest ef Basil caning her daughter a beast and saying Lola never loved him. Edgar Q aires, Christine's brother. left his Roches ter home for New York followiag the receipt ef a telegram the day ef the murders. Christine was to have Inherited wealth shortly. 8uspidoa also poiata to Dr. Hngh Baldwin when it la disclosed that he pur chased acorpioBa. He had stated heart failure caused the deaths. Colt, calling to question Baldwin, finds him dead from a scorpion bite! Hra. Baldwin reveals that she knew her husband was involved with Lola. In Baldwin's desk the Commissioner finds a statement in which the doctor explains he accidentally poisoned Gaylord Gifford, Lola's husband. Lo la's knowledge ef this placed Bald win In her newer. She forced him td supply narcotics which ahe used to victimise her friends and later black mailed them. Then she ordered him to obtain a scorpion to commit a murder. Baldwin learned that Yin cent Rowland, the lawyer, waa be hind Lola's blackmailing aad real ized his knowledge of their activities marked the doctor for death. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE " T TOLD Lola that I wanted to sea her alone. She consented and took me into the boudoir. I told her that I had the scorpions in two boxes in my overcoat, which I had thrown over my arm as I entered her bedroom. She became very eager and entreated me to let her see them. But I hesitated. I explained to her how dangerous they were. I told her that she ought not to take risks of any kind. Then I looked her squarely in the eyes and told her that murder was a game that was always caught. "She looked me in the eye quite as frankly and laughed. She de manded the scorpions and full in structions aa to how to manage them. I gave her the boxes with strict instructions and then started for the door. Just as my hand was on tne knob, she called to me. "I remember her words with the most detestable distinctness. "'Look here, Baldwin,' she said in her soft and always lovely voice. -une 01 these days I may be send ing for you on a hurried matter. I mean, somebody may be sick taken aick all of a sudden. Understand?' "I nodded. I felt I understood all too well. But I had no idea of the devilish reach of that woman's im agination. -well.' she drawled. It that ever happens, I can tell you right now what is expected of you. When you get here, youll find somebody that's sick. When yon do, look on their arm for a bite. On the arm, remember. Then stick your hypo needle right in the bite. Do you unaersxanai "I do not know to this day how I stood there without crying out against such a fiendish, damnable scheme. Yet she waa looking at me, "1! . ... - snuung, serene, DeautiTui. .Yes, thougbt, tbe devil Is a woman and the woman is Lola Carewe. tt n . m . .... f ixceus Mvuna axi not an swer when I bade him good-night. I went home In the depths of despair. I tried to forget about it I plan ned a trip out of town. I would not be there when I was sent for. But I waa a coward the worst coward In history I was in too deep. I had WW I S' Sri I told her that I had the scorpions ia two boxes la : Baldwin's letter read. y overcoat." done criminal things too long. There was no moral strength left for me to draw upon." ' Here there was an interruption in this extraordinary manuscript. A smaller sheet of paper was laid be tween the leaves. On the top, I read: "I have Just been called to Lola's apartment this New Year's Eve while I was writing this. And at the bottom of the page I re ad : "Everything has happened now am back here there can be only one end " Then the regular pages flowed on in the strong black script: "Whom did she mean, to kill be sides myself? Often I debated that question. But she had so many irons in the fire, it might easily be some one I did not even know. I felt comforted by this reflection. But I was like a man walking in a night mare. Then, only a day or so before New Year's, Lola telephoned me in a rage. Someone had stolen the boxes I had given her. "The scorpions were gone! "She blamed me. She accused me of having stolen them back. I had a key to the apartment which she had given me, for often She wanted me to come in and see her without ringing the bell and thus calling attention to my can. She thought I was weakening. She, made me promise to get her more scorpions. "To calm her, I promised that I would Obtain two mora scorpions. But I explained that it would again take weeks. The specimens had to be sent for. I would have to see my supply man, Bicardo Villafranca. "However, I kept delaying, but finally did it. Imagine my surprise my terror when I received a call to come to Lola's apartment just a few hours ago. But my con sternation was increased tenfold when I entered the room and saw the victim was Lola Carewe herself. "I was in a panic. There she lay. I looked at her arms. She herself had been bitten by the scorpion. The mark was plainly there. In self defense I said she had had heart trouble and then in self-defense I performed the trick which she had taught me. I put the needle into the bite, and thus obliterated all trace. "But who killed her? Who killed Christine Quires by the same deadly aeorpion bite? I do not know. But I am going to get one more scorpion. After what I have done tonight and the Tcnowledge that Lola's papers will surely ex pose me I do not care to live. Dis regard all I said at the beginning of this letter I truly die by my own hand. Here, abruptly, the writing end ed. There waa no signature. Doctor Hugh Baldwin lay dead at our feet. Had he actually taken his own life, in horror and remorse? There seemed little doubt of that. But the accusations veiled and specifie which he had left behind what of them? The letter was not the end of the mystery. It was the beginning of a larger and more baffling problem. Thoughtfully and deliberately. Thatcher Colt filled his pipe and ighted it. "It is a melancholy probability. Tony," he began, "that Doctor Bald win could have saved three lives, his own included, had he had the manhood to come. down to Center Street and teU me the facts. I could have protected that man from everything, disgrace ia his own profession included.' "Looks like this blows up Dough erty's jewel-ring idea," remarked. Colt nodded. "But Dougherty was on the trail of something real something im portant," Colt replied. "It happened to be blackmail, instead of jewel thieves but Dougherty was get ting somewhere. More power to him, say L I have had the Bock Ribbed Securities Corporation look ed up this morning. It was a bucket shop affair, and the officers have all shipped to South America." Here the Commissioner paused to relight his pipe. "That Utter of Baldwin's is , really very upsetting, about Row land," he resumed, as he sauntered across the floor. "It reveals the in teresting suspicion for Baldwin seems to hare no real proof as yet that Vincent Rowland Is a rogue. Suppose he Is? Is he a murderer?" "If he were the one he had every cause to be the other," I argued. "And some semblance ef oppor tunitythat is to say, he was on the premises last night Right! If Rowland were frightened, he might be the man to take bold, decisive action. That has always been his method in his court-room battles, spectacular affairs, always. More over, he might figure that these very three people stood ia his way. And yet " He stopped abort, leaving the sentence uncompleted, while he knelt by the body and stared at it moodily. . fT B C H eiQ CoyrHcW 111. krCOTfci-PrM, W. DiMnbotea by ZJag Fcatarcs Sradkata, Iae. New Views Do you favor capital- punish ment for men guilty of first-degree murder? Why or why not? Tom Wood. ' ealesman: "Yes, most certainly, it's the only way to cut down crime." facto, he was a tree man. That is, by the fact itself of being in a Brltisn possession, nl chains of servitude dropped off. S S The men who operated this particular branch of the under ground railway were all Quakers, and their neighbors were nearly all of that faith, and opposed to slavery. They therefore esteemed it a virtue to be engaged in aid ing the robbery of their southern neighbors of their black chattels, however opposed they might be and actually were to other forms of stealing, or being ac cessories after the fact S "a Such sentiments, worked out in overt acts, especially on such scales as were comparable to the operations ot the raiders under John Brown, so exasperated the southern slave holders and their sympathisers to hurry the culmination of the Issues that brought on the war. As the Am erican people view the struggle in retrospect they are amated that American statesmanship of the time was so futile as to al low matters to come to that pass costing In money alone many times the values of all the slaves, to say nothing of the cost in Uvea. Yet one heart con stant complaints at our present statesmanship, which in many re spects, despite Its many fallings. is far superior to the period. preceding that armed struggle. R. Goldsmith, salesman 1 "Of course to -help break up the gangster rings and clean up the country." - I Answers to Health Qaerlee M.E. Q. What should a girl of 18. 5 feet 4 Inches talL weigh? m 2. What are the symptoms of tuberculosis? Av She should weigh about 123 pounds. This about the average welrht for one of this ace and height aa determined by examination of a larva number of persona. 2v Cough, weakness, loan of weight and afternoon temperature. also heeue nusn. 1111.1 W. A. Sampson, grocer at 975 Market: "That depends on how. it comes up. In some cases, X be lieve in capital punishment wheth er It is first -degree murder or not" . Ted TantonJ laborers "I dont beUeve in capital punishment in any case." IX HOSPITAL HERB GERVAI3, July 21 George Wynn, who uvea east ot Gerrals, is quit ill at his home. Ha has Daily Thought "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, The eternal years of God are hers: But Error, wounded, writhes la Pia. ... And dies among his worshippers." BRYANT. been in a hospital in Salem under observation. Two of his daugh ters, Mrs. J. a Adams of Spreo- kles. Calif., and Mrs. ot Longview, Wash., their parents. . U. Jones are with DIVERSIFY MORE famers very year are folowbg th DWerst fied Farm irovtrfnenr. Why? 6ecaa29 over an averaoe of fire years they rna! more inoaey tiaa a one crop tarmec. ! This bank efrcouraoes ,a greater diwersMed movemefit e ocr ofticers wiX acSy arvtsa wtA yon x START SAVING REGULARLY NOW We WelconU YOUR Batrttiig Batiaest 1 UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANIX j! fALEM. 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