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, '-ry PAGE FOUR TTiY OREGON TATESSlAN.Saleaj; Oresjon; Tuesday- Morning July ZKeep Cool With CoolidgfT The Murder of theHght Club Lady ' ; j ' B A:N T H O N .Y A B B O T : ' "iVo Faror Sway 17; No Fear Shall Aw From First Statesman,. March 28, 1851 : THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.1 Chjuoes A. Spsacus, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publikr$ Charles A. Sfracue "i y - Ediior-ilanagtr Sheldon F Sackett - - - Managing Editor i Member of the Associated Press .V The Associated Prewti exclusively entitled to the uae" PoWlca ttoa ot aU oewe dispatches credited to It w not otherwise credited la this pprr Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives : Arthur W. Stypes, tne, Portlat.4. 8ruHty Bids. 8aa Frasdac. Sharon Bid. : Los Angeles, w. Pao. Bid. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Farsous-Stecher. Inc New Tork. ill Madison Ave.J Chicago. SCO N Michigan Ave. EnUred at the Potto I Sue at Salem, Oregon, as Seeond-Ctass Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business we. US S. Camtttmtnal Street, y ,' SUBSCRIPTION BATES: , Mall Subscription Rate, in Advance. Within Oregon t Daily and Sunday. 1 Ma 68 cents; I Mo. $1.11; Mo. 11.26: 1 rear 11.00. Elsewhere 50 cents per Mo., or $1.00 for I rear tn advance. By City Carrier: cents a month ; $5.00 a year to advance. Per Copy 3 centa On trains and News Stands S cents-. i Is China in Dissolution? S China slipping into dissolution to become an amorphous country which is merely, as Italy was in the Iirst nail lflth centurv. "a freotrraohical expression"? Outer Mon- of the lflth centurv. "a eeoeraDbical expression golia has virtually gone communist in affiliation with the so viet which borders it. Manchuria is fast being consolidated as an independent country under Japanese domination. Great provinces acknowledge" little or no loyalty to the Nanking government. In many of them bandit armies range the coun try despoiling the already impoverished Chinese farmers. While there is a loll in the fighting in the orient there is no peace. China is endeavonhg to regain Manchuria. The soviet republic is girding itself tor a possible clash with Jap an which threatens her far eastern outposts. Japan mean while continues to mop up on the recalcitrant army groups in Manchuria who seek by guerilla methods to break down the power of the invader. Finances perplex central governments. Japan is har assed by the costs of her forays in Manchuria and at Shang hai. Nanking is always pressed for money, but always seems able to squeeze Chinese merchants for enough to live on. There is little prospect of peace and order through the vast country we call China. The processes of disintegration have gone too far. The provinces may become virtually auto nomous, and foreign penetration for carrying on trade may shrink to the littoral and the shores of the great rivers. Auth ority is lacking; and commercial or other intercourse may not be sustained in a country where authority has broken down. The world may, well keep its eyes trained on the orient during the coming months for events of grave import may occur there. ' I PHP2 " ' New Views Depr Statesman reporters yesterday asked this Question as they mads their rounds: "Do you hars any confidence) that a change in th ression Busters . I Political leadership of the United T" HE west coast owes a debt to the Shriners. In this year States and a change in presidents of gloom the Shriners remain one organization that woul Tail bringing back good doesn't forget that one of its great objectives is to get some k conditions?" fun out of life. So we hear and see special trains rolling south to San Francisco .bearine hundreds of "nobles" for the an- w. w. Zinn, ice cream retailer: 1 nual conclave of the order. The total in attendance may not "A change in the political situation be up to that of former years; but the same spirit will be ft the present time and a change thereThe Shrinerswho appear in the brilliant raiment of JSMSi the orient may look foolish to those who stand on the curbs thing i know of". and view the parade. But these Shriners are being foolish and getting a lot of enjoyment put ol it. They toss i aside conven- Bm SonimerjI1 uborw tional sack suits and felt hats and in billowy silks and tassel- -no, i don't think a change in po- ed fezes they abandon the serious job of being an ordinary luteal leadership will in itself business or professional man. They lose themselves in the make business conditions better", cameraderie of a great fun order. Even the men who are not members ought to get a little Mrs. Alice Franks tos, home kick out of seeing one bunch that defies depression and that g-J goes aneaa to snow mat me nas some pleasure icn in it u. aTaI1 for help in the depression. I ine casn uiviaenas nave sioppeu. The Presbyterian synod at Albany took time at one session to extol George Washington as a Christian. Washington was not a , Christian; but a deist. He served as vestryman of the church but that was a semi-political office. He refrained from partaking ot communion; and the stories ot his praying In the snow at Valley Forge are fabrications. Washington apparently believed in tne ex istence ot a supreme being and so may be classed as a deist, but not as a confessing Christian in the Presbyterian meaning of the term. - y ' . The Portland Journal is now lambasting tariffs. Instead of be rating the Hawley-Smoot tariff act It should be wearing sackcloth aad ashes; for the Portland Journal was the leader in the battle Tor Increasing the tariff on lumber from S1.00 a thousand to $S.0t "a thousand. Of course lumber Is an Oregon product; but so are the rest ot the protected products "local". AU ot which makes the tariff as Gen. Hancock said, a local Issue. .When the Journal repents its advocacy, of the lumber tariff we will think its protests against tariffs in general as sincere. think that is something that has come from the buying of the peo ple and It will have to be changed siowly by the eeonomlo buying of the same people". Mrs. B. J. Flint, home maker: "Perhaps, if the depression Is caused by the way people think. then if they expect a chance for the good with a change in presi dents there should be some relief. I am sure I do not know anything about it, though". BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS Where Qulnaby, last of the Molallas, lived: S In the article In this column on Thursday last, on the historic Waldo house, reference was made to Quinaby, best known Indian in the Salem of pioneer days, and, paraphrasing Cooper, last ot the Mohicans," though Quinaby was a Molalla instead. He continued to make Salem his illihee after all his numerous red tribesmen of former days in their ancient Chemeketa. city of peace. and city of refuge, had departed to their happy hunting grounds. W Traditions concerning old Quinaby linger here. Most Salem ites to the manor born, and their children, know how Quinaby died, and that his end was a happy one, for he went with a full stomaeh In fact, his too full stomach was the cause ot his passing. It was this way, as the true tale runs: . One New Tear day ot the very early eighties; probably it was 18 SO, as the old custom was, the leading pioneer families here "re ceived." That is, they let it be known, through The Statesman or in some other way, each group according to arrangements, that callers would be welcome, gen eraiiy in tne afternoon and ev ening. Some good ladles would gather at a house, and when Daily Health Talk: By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. . ': Sen Carter Glass proposed a .repeal amendment in congress the other! day; but instead of following the democratic platform he fol lowed the republican plank, because he proposed repeal but with "continued prohibition of the open saloon. That of course will not astisfy the wets. While Al Smith once said the return of the saloon '.is unthinkable, he also has been Quoted las saying that what the : country needed was a brass rail to rest its foot on. M' v Little by little the feeling ot optimism, seems to be spreading through the business world. Money is as scarce as ever, but people seem to be Impressed with the idea that the corner has actually 1 been turned. Maybe we were not so foolish as appeared six weeks ago when we announced the end ot the long skid and the beginning .-of the slow climb out of the pit. ' Some enterprising Califofnians" are thinking of buying Port land's Bull Run water Had selling It in Los Angeles. They will prob ably never get started. Some of the -Portland political racketeers will wage a campaign claiming, the buyers, will .make a dime and so Portland will continue to let the excess run down the rivers. ' Congress adjourned but the democrats refused to carry out the mandate or tneir piauorm to give tne country beer anj wine mow. The plank was Inserted only tor political 'effect: and the democratic members were ail flustered when wet republicans put them on the spot in Dins to restore light liquors immediately. Uncle Andy may resign as ambassador to London. The appoint ment was designed merely to break the fall of getting him out of Jhe cabinet, so it would not be surprising if he would be eased out ot publle life. We may hope however when, he gets back to Pittsburgh to his bank he will not have to borrow f o,000.000 the first day. The board of trade might as well f isrht it out with the coons aow aa any time. The private grain trade figures it can't buck the government treasury indefinitely; but the signs indicate that the peo Sii VVJ ,tIred Powing public money into the federal farm froero. The trickle that reaches the farmer doesn't Justify the outlay. -ndSlU1 j0,ur"1 Mtn the Finnish minister of Interior as r7 SESyiS! Tal 61 "bitlon in that country. But let's wait till tors "before Zi;.- ' "V00 HelaIn- f11 T1 t the downfaU staff T ,2zlZ V " otaim wbo is about to ro into) the dls- , vt.,uB wm nuasia IB u last IS veara vera nliad . nun fan Af hmw: . . years were iuea -uvmti, ui m hub uuia ne round correct. '2J?ZfV??,J? 51J? Provide them with v""" mum. iw iutra tne raooit population. But i Hn't the guinea pig more adeot with tha muiMnnMfi- i-M-e . " ". - mwu venAj i t - - L wt JnUked by telegraph, says a headline. That's not new dads of college students have been milked that way for a long time. J People are said to be writing fewer checks now, fewer Mnst" ay we hope.. UCH can be learned from an examination ef the tonrue, Prior te the dis covery of the X-ray and other mod ern methods of diagnosis, the physi- m reuea upon the appearance ef the tongue, regarding it as an index of health. Tears f experience taught these old time practition ers many secrets concerning health and dis ease, seerets that I fear to day ar often overlooked. a. - jr t student I waa CoUm taught that the examination of a patient was not complete without a earexui study or the tongue. I can almost hear my professor as he re Apeated ver and ever again that the tongue was r signpost in many diseases. Careful scrutiny of the tongue of a sick child is of even greater im portance than that of an adult. It win tell a great deal about the con dition of the stomach and intestines, things the child is unable to de scribe. In intestinal disturbances the tongue appears swollen and has a grayish coating; with irregular red specs, lais appearance is often seen in eases of appendicitis and other in flammatory diseases of the intes- 1 Answers to Health Qoeries tines. When there is fever the tongue appears dry, having lost its normal, healthy, glistening appear ance. In certain diseases the tongue as sumes a charaeteristie appearance. For example, the so-called "straw berry tongue is seen only in scarlet fever. In this condition the tongue is first coated and grayish in color, but the tip soon becomes red, the grayish color disappears and ths) tongue assumes a bright red cob with small, knob-like swellings, closely resembling a strawberry, When scarlet fever rash disappears the tongue loses its strawberry 4ik appearance. us In typhoid fever the tongue has a reddish color, only in the early stages. Later in this disease a high fever causes the tongue to become dry and brownish in color. In t phoid fever, as in many other dis eases, it is often possible to detei mine the progress of the patient by the appearance ot the tongue. In kidney diseases, the moisture of the tongue is important. A moist, dean, healthy-looking tongue need never cause alarm, but a tongue that is dry, hard, cracked and coated means that there is some disturb ance la the body. It may be due to an infectious disease, to aa intes tinal disturbance, or te faulty kid neyaetion. When yon feel below par, examine your tongue. Compare it with the appearance of a healthy tongue. A great deal ef information can be gained in this manner. Knowledge of the actions of the body in health ana disease is a valuable asset. - Q. Would rabbin keln ta tcmIum enlarged joints? . , , .- : A Electricity and gentle 'mae ssge would be helpful. E.D.CL Q. Will yon please tell n the eauses of gas In the stomach. ATor full particulars restate yt ur Question and send a stamped self-addressed envelope. . Q. Is there any way ef getting r of birth marks! N A. Consult a kia JDedalist lfrs.CJ. Qv How often should one bathe when sot robust I - evnssflBSB) , A. A tepid bath three er four times a week should not prove harm ful. V. S. Qo-What would yon ad vise for a bad liver condition whick eauses coated tongue and unpleat-' ant breath? . Teu should be under the cart f nphyiidan. CwrUS4.ltIl.X3 their friends would come on their rounds, and with specially print ed cards, some of them containing two or several names, and some having Quips and pictures, there would be dainty foods and confec tions ready and, always, some thing to drink; coffee or tea in a few cases, but generally wine or stronger stuff. Those were gay days, and there were young bloods who did not go home sober after making the roands of the homes that "received." Is W This was ever a great dar for old Quinaby. He was known to all. and, though he did not troop along with the dandles, he followed, and was ted from the abundance there was and to spare from the best homes. The day of his passing, he had let out his belt beyond the last buckle hole. He ate so much that, when he reached his camp, he suffered from acute lndiges- tion, "or sumpln.' " Or rather he reveled Instead of a uf ferine-, aad he laid himself down and died nappy. S Where was his death bed? It was at his camn. on the annta bank of North Mm creek vW Winter street crosses it; oa the east side of the nresent Wintar street. The Quinaby camp was on iana mat men belonged to Judge R. P. Boise, but it was fenced as a part of the pasture of the Dan Waldo family. Quinaby thought it wiongva to tne Waldos; and thereby hangs a tale. After the Whitman mnui Not. 2, 1847. there was wide spread unrest amonr th Tnii. of the Oreroa alarms among the white, uiium who feared a general uprising of and massacre by their red broth ers, ana tne danger was a real f6-.? nb-chief ot the Molallas, and that tribe was f1.1? .ths cy". nd knew the tribal language of the Utter, fnd perhaps of the Klamaths, too. There was a tradition, perhaps founded in fact, that nin,i. the Molallas lived east of the Cas cades, and were a part of the Cay usm. Walla Wallas and TJmatll I, and that there strife arose, leading to a war, and. the fore fathers of the Molalla tribe were driven away, and came over the Cascades, after fearful slaughter, culminating In a last struggle la th pMi Pbaps i Saatlam pass, after whtoa Molalla contingent, much de pleted in numbers, blocked the way and escaped, and the victors. ' 4 lueir warriors dead, turned homeward hnM. bunch-grass realm. V Ever afterward. claimed as their Illihee the west- V w Cascades though thev were MnM.Mj - th.? Chbipooia. etthe Z "1 nuV 80 nch so. 7 kpt fr bills, and a MoUUa would-generally rua from a CaUpooU; though the for- Z9TW protected in their ? MT 5 ngnia at the falls IVW wmamette after the " vegan to come with the Calapooiaa. , , :ln rebruary. 1S4S, there was awierui aiarm in the central vnlley over rumors of an tar d Indian raid. A band of Klam ath Indiana had , come via , the saatlam and members of it were Impudently insultln " wnm la tha cabins of aettiera. Red Blank- ei tea me manutha, and his son. young Red Blanket. aeeAmnanivt him. Crooked ringer, a desperate Molalla chieftain, ' was making himself as much of a nnlsanea aad menace. These fellows mad threats that they intended to cut tha -throats of tha.. illHer, War chaptex TnntTT-EiGnT niHSISTTNI wai fat the reesa at Q .the time, ee was Guy Everett, ae was Mrs, Carewe. Nona ef them teems to remember that stow Und did anything suspicious with the aleara. I should fancy It would be a deliberate aad delicate end cer tainly dangeioua eperatiesw Bat even granting that he was able te manage all that, whaCmore are we asked te believe? That the scorpion-remained quietly la th sleeve all th urn Mia was out ox ue house? It seems to me a man ef Rowland Intelligence would hesi tato before taking such a risk ef failure as that?" By lumping juniper," ex claimed Dougherty, 1 must say Thatcher, that I didnt figure all that e at . Is Vincent Rowland cleared in Tour opinion, then? "By no means. If he waa mixed in any crooked schemes, and Guy Everett and Baldwin were threat ening a complete exposure h had a perfect motive for wanting to get rid of thoee two girls. He had the intelligence to plan it It Is even possible that he connived with Lola, and made her his dupe in get ting the scorpions she thought they were to murder someone else, never dreaming that they were in tended for her. That la a posat hflity. Whoever Is guilty made Lola purchase the scorpions I feel sure ef that. But we have no complete ease yet, against Rowland, or any one else. Until we find the modus operandi of the murders, I think we should let th ease seem aa on- aolvahle a puxxle aa possible.' Dougherty poured himself his fourth cup of steaming coffee, and ordered another serving ef stuffed Long Island duckling. "Agreed, Thatcher. Have yon found any Indications pointing- to anyone else?" "Plenty. There Is a distinct pos sibility that the murder was com mitted by Mrs. Carewe 1" "Thatcher! Good God, man what ar yon saying? Ton dont really mean that seriously?" Thatcher Colt was calmly light ing a cigarette. "I am in deadly earnest about it. There has not been since the mo ment we walked through the pent house door anything that seemed spontaneously affectionate er gen uine in the relationship of Lola and her mother. AH the outer signs were there but not the inner spirit. Mrs. Carewe has grieved nobly, but as far as I am concerned, nncon vindngiy. Her hysterics and her ex dtoment have not moved me. Only once have I seen genuine emotion in that old lady. That eras when roused all her excitement by the mention of the name of BasQ." "But that has nothing to do with this case," interjected Dougherty testily. "Perhaps not At all events, there I found a real reaction." "But a mother to kOI her own daughter?" Thatcher Celt shrugged his shoulders. "It happens every year almost every month," he reminded the Dis trict Attorney. "Fratricide, matri cide, patricide blood relatives let blood In great quantities." "I know but among people of this class!" along "Consider th facts," returned Celt. ."It happens among th good td dtixans-ef th United States. I can eraoto yea tonumerahl exam- plea, what ef that amiable xboumt ef Havre d Grace, down In llary laad, who poisoned her children to collect the insurance? Doretf think ah was a monster? There are a hundred like her. And how! many that are nerer caught and pun- ished, God only know. And by th way. th death not was left at ths desk lust about th time tne eia lady cam horn from the Palac." "But what motive could flrt Carewe have?" rumbled Dougherty unhappily. ' "Hatred Is th most eommon when mothers kill their children, or children their mothers and fath ers. Very aeldom Is Insurance the cause. Insanity may be a word to gloss It all ever. Or. Mrs. Carewe may have some practical motive which we have not aa yet discov ered." i "I am sure you WiH find that Lola waa not killed by her mother," Dougherty stated with all th eon victioa of deep-rooted prejudice. Anybody else!" J "The rest of the servants, natur ally. They, too; had opportunity. Only someone with access to th premises could have don these crimes. Eunice does not seem to me to have brains enough. As for r-t "He looks to me to have dark ways and peculiar tricks,"'; para phrased Dougherty. "He's an Ori ental and " i At this moment, Colt was caned to the telephone. When he returned, the chief wore a alight smile, and at once told us the encouraging- h had just been given by Inspector Flynn: "First," explained Thatcher Colt, "Flynn has had another talk with Rieardo VUlafranea. of the labo ratory . supply agency. The South American at once confirmed all the details regarding the scorpion men tioned in Baldwin's letter. Also he told the circumstances ef the last meeting be had with Doctor Bald win the en at West End Avenue and Seventy-second 'Street about tea this morning. It seems that Baldwin called VUlafranea and in sisted on meeting him in th man ner described by Deems this morn ing la his report. This did not puz zle VUlafranea. Baldwin had never called at his shop to carry the scor pions off with him. Of f onrse, it waa understood between them that the scorpions were for the use of sdentifie research. Nevertheless, Baldwin had always been very se cretive. They must meet away from the shoe. Apparently this morning Baldwin had ne idea that he was being followed. Although when we returned his needle and apparatus to him, he should have been suspi dons. Furthermore, .VUlafranea willingly gave our man another hex, a duplicate of the several used in this affair. AU search of the pent-house yielded no further signs of such boxes. But Flynn has traced one just the same. The ashes in the fireplace when sifted 'showed the exact same size ef naUs a in the sample' and the same number; also some infiwiim fragments of burned aotton. Thus ends the search for the boxes the second set whleh Baldwin undoubtedly 4 mm mmm a at gar t UDim. j.ae auier vrna them in th fireplace." "Thatcher." groaned Dougherty, "X am at. last beginning to believe w ar up against" a problem that cannot b solved!" . , "Nonsense." returned Colt. "Let's talk about something else." , And for th next Quarter ef aa hour we discussed th latest move for arms redaction, the erratic movements of th stock market, and th finding of a treasure box in Long Island, filled with coins hearing Phoenician Inscriptions. Promptly at tw clock we were back at Headquarters and in' the private otSe of- Thatcher Colt. Ia our absence, th papers stacked for th chiefs scrutiny had accumu lated two feet high. Colt had missed the line-up that morning, and there were notation of significant facts developed during th dafly parade of criminals en the platform erected in the eld police gymnasium. Colt attended the line-up whenever pos sible. It was he who abolished the use ef masks on the faces ef the assembled detectives. Instead he set up a rang of nine powerful lamps btatfng down en the prisoner ex posed to th glare. Every other light in the room Is out. Th pris oner is blinded, but he is radiantly risible to th army of man-hunters. seated before him. It was here that Colt promoted patrolmen, and gave publi praise and blame, his re wards going most often to th pa trolmen who had shot down crimi nals tn open battle. It waa here, too, that Colt announced some of the most important changes he in troduced Into th department, in cluding th opening of the police school f er rookies -"Enter to learn and leave to servo" and his bureau for free medical attention for the department. Apparently the line-up ef the morning after the New Tear's Eve celebration 'had been full of sur prises. Tvi Italian troubadours wh sang and played for the riders on the Dyckman Street ferry boats had been caugnt with several ounce of morphine bidden in the bellies of their guitars. Through them the head ef th narcoti squad was working to trace back th drugs to th sources a never-ending quest that seemingly succeeds only In spots; th hardest of all wars waged by the police. There b an immeasurable distance between the arrest ef th towiy dope-peddler and the conviction of the man high er up. Beneath the typewritten re port on the ferry-boat minstrels appeared a clipping from on ef the daUy tabloids ia New York vi rions attack oa the Police Depart ment and on Colt personally, and demanding that politics be thrown out of the department. With a brief smfle, Colt thrust this aside. Ever since he had been in publie life he had known, as doe every ether strong administrator, constant as saults tike these. They may origi nate ia someone with aa object to serve. But as often as not they are simply yellow journalism; aa un successful newspaper trying to make a noise In town. They are a symptom of modern political life in modern American cities. That cher Colt had time for only a cas ual glance at the printed attack. Te Be Clieetd) IXatriMtef fcr Kiac rcatons Sndicu. he. nock and Patterson families, east ot Salem. T.-B. Allen sensed the danger, straddled a horse without saddle or bridle, and ran him to Elliott's, where there was a barn raising. Stanley Umphlet saw and heard the Indian bands, and, no tifying William Waldo, who act ed as adjutant, rode through Howell prairie, Salem prairie and on to the Santlam, giving the alarm as he went. By daylight the next morning men began to gather at Undo Jack Warnock'a, and by 10 to 11 o'clock were there, some ISO men, ready for action. Is S U Dan Waldo was elected . col onel, and . took Capt. Allen J. Da ve y's doughty company of horsemen, from the Santlam, and st or SO others, and crossed the Abiqua, at the ford, and went us on the north side ot the stream. aad R. c. Geer took charge of the Infantry. The Intention was for both divisions to arrive at th camp of Coosta, chief of th Mol allas, where the Klamath's were a m aiso gamerea. S k The footmen, 'under Geer. ar rived ahead ot the horsemen un der Waldo, and when th foot men arrived opposite the camp. the Indians, ' having learned the whites were coming, were cross ing on a fooUor. One Indian rais ed his gun, but h was picked eft by James Brown, aad th uner ring rifle ot Lieut James Harpol accounted for another. Then fir ing commenced in earnest' whleh sent the Indians the other way. Probably SO whites took shots at younr, Chief Red BlankeVbuthe got amy mat day. Geer ordered his men to quit firing. Old Chief Red Blanket walked off 40 to SO yards and then turned around and walked back to within f 0 cr 7 yards of th whit msa and commenced sending arrows at them so fast that there teemed to be two or three on th way all th lime bat for a Try short time, for 20 rifle were oulcktr aimed at him, and he was finish ed by as msny balls. ; v v : By th time the horsemen came up. . tnree Indiana having been Kiuea. tne rest bad run away, iflt wnite settlers returned te their home that night Geer, wnen n got horn, found that Crooked linger had been thsr that day, but fortunately for his wire ana children, two nelgh- Dors, uneie xa via Colrer and Taeopnnus Powell, had arrived a few minutes before. Th Indian was sullen 'and Insolent, but did not stay long, r - u .. (Continued tomorrow.) OFF TO OLYMPICS i HOLLYWOOD Mr. and Mrs. JT.uU. DIbb ot Wlnlock, Wain,, and The Safety Valve -!- Letters from f Statesman Readers Salem. July 20. Editor Statesman: . I was much interested in the ar ticle ia Sunday's Statesman on the Canadian liquor system. It seemed quite fair, but I could not see how that article alone could help us de cide what to do about the liquor problem in this country without further information. We need some comparative statistics. Alon- so L. Baker, editor ot 81gns of the Times, also recently made a study or the situation in Canada, trav eling from Victoria to Halifax In terviewing ail kinds and condi tions of people. His general con duslon waa that "the Canadian system is better thaa the opea eal- ooa bat Is not preferable to pro hibition with an its faults." Here are some figures he give showing wnai. aa nappened la th aeven years between lilt and 1020. Ia that Urn the population of Can ada increased 10 per cent but li quor, consumption increased .it per cent and. crime increased OS per cent Th people are consum ing 21 per capita of liquor aa- nuaiiy wnica amounts to 1(2.000, 000 more than the raise ot the sawmill products ot Canada. it u a reiy loax article on the subject aad none of It Is favorable. He concludes by saying "The prob lems ot arras will never be sotted by taking the riper to ar boeoms agaia by legalising It and vainly trying to maxe u res nee table, it la an outlaw traffle; let us determine to seep it each. Let us declare n truce ia mis ngnt ' ? Respectfully sumbltted, , AMY B. MARTEf. ' '. To the Editor? . i I not th article oa ine Can adian liquor system published la a recent issue and waa is iiv. . sdd a tow Items evidently over looked by the writer: I .Tfc province ef British Colum- roar distilleries and 11 . tds government sells spirits and wines la unlimited quantities B II IWIW. J Jam Dibb of Seattle have been visitors at ths horn ef Mr. aad Mrs. J. Brennaa here. Mrs. Brea naa is a daughter of the Wtalock Popi. and - James Dibb It nephew or th Brsnnansi James tttt s Sunday for Los Angeles, where h will attend the Olympic game. - ; - - - TJnUmlted quantities of hear may be bought by the glass In SO? beer parlors, John Barley corn's school for beginners. Sixty-six clubs have bee grant ed licensee for beer only -but members admit liquor may be served. Ot the liquor selling places 210 are not owned or operated by the government hence the poor un fortunate denied liquor at th gov ernment store need not go thirsty. Th drink blu increased from 0 minions in th first nine months to erer It K millions last year, and th finance minister re cently announced that the debt ot British Columbia had climbed to 1102.000.000. British Columbia has not been able to drink Itself lata prosperity. The only logical Purpose of anr form of liquor control is to reduce the consumption of alcohotle li quors. Government control ia Canada has not acompllshed this purpose, it has brouiht nroroeritr to th brewers aad distillers only. They control the govern meat as they did the government-of the U. 8. la the "rood eld dnr No, government control would not work In th United States, It doe not work: ia Canada. r A. READER. Daily Thought "I never work better than I am Inspired by aager. When I am angry I can write, pray aad preach well; for then my whole temperament Is quickened, my understanding- sharpened, aad all maaaaa vexations aad tempta tion depart" Luther. , t VUIUU! DAVE UONEYt . y We Invito y , Banking Business. UNITED CTATE3 NATIONAL DAITH ' tALTHCXS. y y y.-. . ... .: