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"The OREGON STATESMAN.' Salem, Oregon; Sunday Mornln. September 25; 1532 Help the Helping Hand ?! By EDWIN A L MACDONALD il HEART . -v. 1 , STRINGS mutt , v ... . :,m ... . 1 From First Statesman, Mhrch 28,' 18S1 -f;; ':" : THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. - .J Charles A. Spractjtv Sheldon F. Sacextt, Publisher Cha&xes A. Sfsagcki - Editor -Manager Sheldon F. Sacxetti - - MoMging Editor if Member of the Associated Press Ths Associated Press- Is axclaslvly antltted to ths dm (or publica tion of all news dispatches credited to XX, or. not otherwise credited Iff this paper. ;.-'-1 -"v Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. RtroeaJ Inc.. Port! in A. Seeurttr Bid. San Francisco, Bharon j Bldg. ; Los Aagele. 'W, Pac Bids. - Eastern Advertising' Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 171 Madison Ave. ; Cbtcaao, ISO N. Michigan Ave. Entered at Uim Poatoffutm at Ftaltm ' Or no am anrulJ'.lfima Matter, Published every morning except Monday. Business office, SIS S. Commercial Street. j SUBSCRIPTION RATES: llall Subscription Rates., in Advance. Within Oregon : Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. 60 cents; 3 Mo. $1.25: Mo. SJ.2S; 1 year $4.00. Glsewber (0 cents per Mo., or $5.09 for 1 year In advance. By City Carrier: 4S cents a month: $5.00 a year In advance. Per Copy 1 cents. On trains and News Stands 5 cents. Scuttling City Ownership of Water System NOBODY in this town should be deceived by what a few , stalking horses for the water company aided by. some i sincere opponents of a large water bond issue hatched up the f other night. Behind the front of objection to the two and a half million dollar bond issue is a brazen attempt to scuttle thfe whole effort of the municipality to acquire and operate the water utility here. The Statesman was an active fighter against the issuance of two and a half millions in bonds, be- cause the issue was too large, but we serve notice now that j we will fight the measure for repeal, not because we have changed our minds about the unwisdom of such a large in- vestment in a water system, but because we will not endorse the hypocritical attempt to maintain the private operation of such a vital public utility as the supplying of this commun ity with? water. ;;.. ' v" The way out "on the" water question lies in going ahead, not in going backward. Those who think the people of this city "are ready to retreat now and give the field over com pletely to the private water company are foolish. Salem cit izens have expressed themselves twice in unmistakable lan guage that they favor public ownership of the water system. That decision was ratified again in the last municipal elec tion when Douglas McKay was elected on a platform of ac quiring the water plant with preference to a mountain source of supply. " If the repeal advocates were sincere in their lip-worship of the city's acquisition of the water system they would have4 submitted, not a repeal measure, but an amendment to lim it the bond issue to $1,500,000. when that was proposed m .the meeting it was cried down. So now the plain issue is private ownership against city ownership. On that issue we take the stand we have consistently held, in favor of city ownership. ;What is the urgency now to have the company complete the filter plant? The season of abundant water is now here. Why such sudden haste to let the water , company build the filter plant? Senator Spaulding asked that pointed question at the meeting, and received no satisfactory answer. There is no pressing need of the filter plant ; there is nothing to be gained by letting the company do the work. And there is much risk therein. In the first place not only did the city en gineeracondemn the plan and location, but citizens who were on the first water board came to the conclusion that the proposed" plant was too small. Eugene is just putting into use a f ilter plant -which will have a capacity of 12,000,000 gal lonsl Why should Salem which is much larger, encourage the company to go ahead with a plant half that size? . We have a very high regard for August Huckestein who h called the repeal -meeting to order. Mr. Huckestein Is a lead Vine local democrat. Do not his ears still ring with the re- sounding echoes of the speech of the presidential candidate of his party who denounced in Portland only a few days ago the iniquities of many private utilities 7 And were not the or ganizers of the pyramided holding companies controlling the local water utility as reprehensible as any in their ex ploitation of the public interest? Why now does M-. Huck estein. carry water for the water company? :We recall too that Mr. Huckestein was a leader in the movement to elect Douglas McKay for mayor; and that he v was one who solemnly assured the people that the effort was ; not one to defeat the will of the people as expressed at the polls: but to insure them of conservative handling of the bond funds by a competent business executive. Mr. McKay was elected. Have Mr. Huckestein "and his friends lost con fidence in their nominee even before he takes office? Let it be said that Douglas McKay is no party to this : repeal movement, that he stands precisely where he declared himself m his election campaign. - i With the assurance that we have a careful business man like McKay as mayor who will see to the best of his ability that no money is squandered on the water system, why should not the people of Salem let the matter proce'ed? Some people are fretted over the delay and the litiga tion.' Actually not a day has been lost. For as the repealists tell us, the bonds can't be sold anyway. So long as there is no market for the bonds no time is lost over the litigation which history has shewn is always protracted. The fact" is the legation is carried on by the water company purely for Durodses of delay. We are not surprised at this repeal move. We heard it would come just as it has, away last spring. The watet company is behind it. The hand may be that of Esau but Jacob's voice is clear. ' " ' We think the maximum the water system here can bear is a bond issue of $1,500,000. If however a gravity plan could be obtained and the money obtained on approximately a 412 basis then an investment of $1,800,000 might be car ried . The constructive program for the city of Salem is not to repeal the bond issue of $2,500,000, but to continue with litigation to get its validity sustained. Then under a capable and trustworthy leader like Douglas McKay .proceed to ac quire the plant by negotiation if possible ; then if not by con demnation. Then as to future improvements instead of tak- Ing the word of the engineers Baar and Cunningham, call in ! men like the superintendents of the water systems of Eugene ; and Portland and Seattle, like State Engineer Stricklin and ! Dean- Rogers of the engineering school at Corvallia and !, have them recommend a program of improvements for the city. . 'The Statesman proposed some months ago borrowing money from he Reconstruction Finance corporation to buy the plant and improve it. The R. F. C. advises that its funds are not available for purchase but forconstruction work. However this writer has private advices from. responsible sources to the effect that if the city buys the plant then it can effect a loan from the R. F. C. The first objective then ,ls to validate the bonds; the second to acquire the plant. Jt jn&y take a good while, but that is the, proper course to follow, f j. i ,T We would not borrow any money from the R. F, C or from the general public without further studies as to the most practicable sources of supply. -' v " ,We are opposed to spending.any twoand a half million dollars on the plant; but we are not ready to put a ring in Salem's nose for the water company to lead us' around with. .; vTo'fepeal the bond issue,; excessive as it is, without sub ttitutlng a more moderate bond issue in its place means re treat, means indefinite postponement of municipal owner 5 I I ' 1 1 I 1 I John- Mix Stanley, Indian painter; S (Continuing from yesterday:) The letter, dated at Fort Walla Walla, December 2, 1847, and ad dressed, "Messrs. Walker & Eells, My dear Gentlemen," follows: S S "Through the Interposition of a kind providence I have been per mitted to arrive here in safety, and you will with me think that God has been merciful in sparing my life. . . "It is my melancholy duty to inform you of one of the most tragical massacres on record in Oregon. "The following are the persons killed: Mr. and Mrs. Whitman. Mr. Rodgers. Hoffman. Sanders BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS- (schoolmaster), Mr. Marsh, John and Francis Sager, two youths. brothers. Canfield the blacksmith. Two families at the mill supposed to be killed, one of them are known to be. This was committed on the 29th of last month by the Kayuse Indians. Some attribute the cause to the poisoning ot the Indians, although there are many rumors and as I have been here only one half hour, and hearing so much, and having so little time and from the excitement of run ning the gauntlet for two days myself I am perfectly unnerved and bewildered. Solomon has been faithful to the last, - may God bless him. I am Informed that a party of Indians started to Mr. Spalding's to complete their horrid Jbutchery, also to The (Turn -to Page 9) Yesterdays ... Of Old Salem Town Talks from The State mil of Earlier Days September 25, 10OT The formerly moch-desplsed evergreen blackberry Is coming into popular favor here and Is being removed from its wild lo cations to the fertile loam of shrubbery patches, as the result of Its discovery as a jell berry la Washington state. But five miles of grading re main to be done before Salem will be connected with Portland by the Oregon Electric railway. The new bridge for the line over the Willamette river at Wllson ville has been completed and the tracks Into Portland tested. Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. .V CHILDREN'S Interest in their food is dependent chiefly on three factors. These are the type of child, the general health and the environment. The stocky child with broad chest and ample abdominal da velopment usu ally takes his meals as a mat ter of course. His placid out look upon life is not easily dis turbed, provided his physical con dition is up to par and hi sur roundings are pleasant. Chil dren of this type are easy to n . , manage and to Ur' Copo train to Droner habits. The narrow type of child, whose orain and nerves have developed at the expense ox bis body, is a differ ent problem. He is easily upset uis digestive oreans are less vie orous and his craving for food less u marked than that of the stocky child. His alert mind finds jnany interests to divert his attention from the mere routine of meals. All children suffeaat times from minor ailments, Some of which cause loss of appetite. A head cold so slight as to attract but little no tice, by the now ox mucus into the throat may take awry the desire xor xood. uonsupanon is a very common cause of lack of appetite. A body filled with waste products does not crave nutriment. Correct the con stipation by a mild laxative and the appetite will quickly return. Many parents fail to annredata the vital necessity for regular daily elimina tion. Septic conditions of the teelh, to axils, and adenoids should not be neglected, for they diminish both vitality and appetite. Home conditions have a powerful influence upon the nervous system of the chiU. A nagging mother or a Daa-temperea xainer wui maae the child indifferent to food and cause him, perhaps, to prefer a hanger strike rather than a neai under such conditions. Research has shown that an un pleasant incident during a meal, such as a scolding for some breach ox. table manners or xor spuiing food, in many cases has caused a child to dislike some wholesome and tempting article of diet, so that he will obstinately refuse to take it at any time afterward, lx forced by his parents to eat the food, nausea and vomiting result and all the benefit of the meal is lost. , The Tlay Tyrant ! A poorly selected diet, especially one with too great a proportion of milk, often results in lack of desire for the essential solid foods. An ex cess of fats, lack of properly cooked vegetables, too much candy or otner sweets given between meals, and an insufficient amount of water are among the most common causes of disordered digestion. One of a mothers difficult prob lems is the child who refuses to eat. Of several reasons for refusal, one is overindulgence. The child takes a dislike to some article of food and obstinately declines to eat it. As a rule he is a member of a neurotic family, loves attention and, finding that he can be the center of the pic ture by declining to eat, he plays his advantage to the utmost. Bribes, diversion at meals, candy, cake and promises of desired playthings and outings give him a sense of power. Such children should not be per mitted to feel their importance. When they do not eat, the meal should be removed without com ment. Some children court atten tion by eating slowly, having to be urged to take each mouthf uL Pro longed meals should never be al lowed. The obstinate, negative child should be trained in obedience from the first moment this .tendency is notierd. There can be no peace in a hounehold ruled by a tiny tyrant. 1 Answers to Health Qnerie""" Reader. Q. What causes one to suffer from temporary blindness, associated with severe headache, vomiting and nervousness? . A The blindness may be due to the MTeilt of the headache. Make sure there is no underlying kidney condition. . S. A. M. Q. What do yon ad vise for eruptions en the facet Av Diet and elimination are Im portant la the correction of this dis order. Send self-addressed stamped envelope for rail particulars and repeal your question. IMS. ship, means tieinar the city up lo the water -company with constant conflicts over service, valuations-and rates, means (more important than money) committing the supply of. one of the most vital necessities for a' force and crowinc com. munify in the .hands of private interests principally con- cemeu in proaucxion 01 earnings. - Salem ought not to tolerate that We do not believe Sa lem will tolerate it 1 ventions of the republican, demo cratic, populist, " prohibitionist and socialist parties met at the state house here yesterday to organise. The republican com mlttee on resolutions endorsed Taft for presidential nomination in 1108. September 25, 1022 That the Russian Reds con tinue to have a corps of well- organized workers rn this coun try and that they are making un tiring efforts to gala control of the labor movement was an out standing fact brought out yes terday at the 20th annual con vention of the Oregon State Fen eration of Labor here. On the heels of resolutions submitted for approval of L W. W. and Red programs, President Hartwlg bit teriy denounced their sponsors and urged their ouster as speed ily as possible. CHAPTER FORTT-THSEX Patricia eat up sharply bending toward the woman, trying to pry under those lowered lid. "Do yom mean your husband divorced yoa aboat Jimmlet ' " ' "No. I dont know what charge he made. I'm tare he didnt know anything about Jhnmie. I was too earef aL 'He cot the 'divorce ' in Florida. Bat the thing that tore me an np was that be got h. Of eonrse he never sent me any' more "money after be remarried.- I could have had the whole thing, marriage and everything, set aside; he'd claimed a year's residence in Florida and he'd been there only three months." "Why didnt yoa I Then sue him." "I was afraid if X started a fight he might rake up something a boot Jimmie and make trouble for him." "Oh." Patricia sank back on the couch and stared at the ceiling. Presently she said, "WeU, if U protect Jimmie yea lest year In come,' he should have made It np to yom." "He offered to. Insisted on it; but somehow I couldn't take money from a man like that, yoa see I love Jimmie. And it just didnt seem right sort of degrading." She spoke quite simply, as if answer of anything strange la her confi dence to another who loved him. Of coarse I had a little money of my own and I gave that to Jim mis to invest for me. IVe lived the last year on that." "Of coarse," she went on. "I didnt know anything aboat yoa tin the question of divorce came ap. I wouldn't have started with him if I had. I knew he and his wife were estranged, and so I thought he was mine. I don't know just what IH do about my life now." She blinked to Veep back the tears, then smiled apologetically. "Yon. mast think Tm an awful baby. But it's rather a shock and I care so nuch for him" A wave of anger, and also of rympathy, swept Patricia. There was something help! about Mrs. Brownley and rather naive and self-absorbed. She seemed not to think of their strange rela tion to each other; having the air of a deeply troubled woman reach ing out to another woman, and talking out of the excess of her troubling. It was evident to Patricia that Myra Brownley had always clung to whomever came to hand when confusion and distress assailed her. That Patricia was in this case the source of her trouble clearly mat tered less to her than that here was a strong young willow tree in the midst of a too swift curreafc "If I could only do something to make some money I" she said. "But there's nothing in the world I can do. Since this came up I've tried and tried to think of something, anything: but I never learned to do a thing; I have no talent for anything; so there's nothing for me to do, but marry again. And I don't want to marry a man I don t love. "You'll probably marry Jimmie,' said Patricia dryly. "No. I've thought that all out Yoa are the one he cares for "He told me he cares xor yoa. too. That It was impossible xor a man to know yoa and not care for yoa. I can see that s true, too.' "Yes, he cares for me in a way, He knows I car so much for him, for one thing. Then he's sorry for me, and feels he owes me something oa account of the way my divorce turned oak, Aside from the money Nolan sent me, it waa so humiliat ing. But Pve told Jimmie I didnt want him to think of that" "But, of course, he would." "Yes, I suppose so. Still you are the one he really cares for.1 "I think his wife is the one he really loves," observed Patricia. "somehow it s tne thing i never thought of before. Maybe she cares for him even. Marriage seems such . t? 51' X TXjX ' , i c Mm "X was afraid if X started a ght be might make treaMe for Jimaue," said Myra. King Bing McQUchrlst of the Salem Cherrlans is Informed that the Portland Rosarlans will be In Salem In great numbers Thursday of this week, which is Portland day at the state fair. New Views Statesman reporters yesterday asxea tneee questions: "Do yoa ravor the repeal of the 12,500,000 water bond issue as is now being taixeay Why or why not?" George D. Praeer, photo engrav er: i nave always believed the water company should continue. Because I believe there is greater efficiency than there- would be through municipal ownership and less patronage." Judge Joha Siegmund, coonty court: ' I've only noticed the heaa tines so i can nardiy make any decision on the matter." W. W. Moore, property owner: "Yes, I think the matter shoald be submitted, and the water company allowed to go on with Its fUter construction program. That would be better than the coarse now fol lowed." It. I. Thornton, aatomobfle salesman i "I don't think that do. I think we're entitled to a bet ter flow ot -water and water sack as in other places in Portland, for Instance. It seems we con Id get a better wen system, or the moan- tain water. It would be aa asset to the town." George IV. Ireteod, carpenter! Yen, for the benefit ot the peo- jra-wi H. Browwsoa, laborer: ' "I've not followed the water situation a great deal here, but if there Is some real agitation for a re-vote, why I think it shoald be taken. Front what X hear, the faet that ma original rote earned was a surprise to many, and I think since a jumble of unexpected and ansus- J pected things." There was a loud rap oa the door and a ring. Patricia admitted Raymond Georges who had recently published a book. He threw a cushion on the floor and began telling them the idea for his nei.t novel. Mra. Brownley listened to him Patricia wondered if she really lis tened. She aat in what Patricia had at Palm Beech termed her lis tening attitude, elbows on her chair arms, beautiful fingers resting lightly oa the points of her shoul ders. Now and again she would lift her hands, palms out, approaching, bat not touching her face so that onevhad an Impression of a frame that drew -the eyes to loveliness. She was clearly impressed by Georges whose name she knew, as did everyone since his last book; and he was charmed with her. Hs invited them to the Dome. It was twelve in the morning, Patricia had worked steadily for two hours without interruption. Mrs. Brownley watching, making not even a movement of her hands to catch the eye of the busy girl and distract her. It was amazing how intimate these two had become in a week's time. Had Patricia met the woman un der ordinary circumstances she would never have selected her as aa intimate. First because there were six years difference in their ages . . . Mrs. Brownley had been married. She was idleness embod ied. And Patricia was action. But they had been flung together as it were, out of space; linked by com mon interest in a man who had left them together la aa unspeak able situation. Once out of the particular situa tion which had turned them toward each other that first night, they might have parted, but for Mrs. Brownley. ... Finding1 herself in a threatening current, it appeared that she had no resources with which to keep herself afloat She woold phone of mornings, "Had breakfast yet? I'm lonesome and blue. Wont yoa give me a cup of coffee if I eome over? I just hate myself this morning. I promise not to bother yea." And she never did. Myra Brown- . . t a. a. a. . lev had. amour otner run, m rare quality of quiet h could lie oa a coach or sit deeply ana rest fully la a chair reading or staring into space, making not even the sound of turning pages, nor attract- . ing the eye by a movement She neither jabbered nor spoke at in tervals. "Let's have eome Idneh," said Patricia, suddenly laying down her pallet and brashes. They went Into the little kitchen with its breakfast compartment "What can I do?" asked Myra, with the air of helpless dismay she al ways had in a kitchen. Nothing. I'm just gain to make tea and fry some eggs. I think rn have' two. How about yoal" "Dont yoa mind? I always break the yolk.-1 just must be stupid. I dont seem able to learn the sim plest things about cooking." Sometimes Patricia waa dimly annoyed by Mrs. Brownie y's la ability even to make a cup of eof- i fee or fry eggs. What if she hadnt done itl Neither had Patricia. But one could not be definitely annoyed the woman was so unobtrusive, so pleasant berated her own stu pidity with such sweet regret And she had her uses in Patricia's trou bled scheme. She filled those spaces when work waa done and Dadums was out or resting. Space Jack had been wont to fill for so long. Nobody had seen him in over a week. Georges had called at his place several times; but he was never In. For all Patricia knew he may have returned to America. And more than she had ever needed action, movement company, she needed it now. She could not endure rest Her own society for even ten minutes was an abomina tion. Thus she let Mrs. Brownley cling to her, and in a sense she dung to Mrs. Brownley. The woman was al ways ready to go shopping for gro ceries, prowling la art shops, drift ing through the Louvre, idling along Roe de Rivoli, looking at beaded bags and other gee raws which neither of them wanted, and her pleasant trivial conversation formed n stopgap against trooping thoughts. CT Be Cflscrf) O 19U, sy Kia Fotaras Sjwiicate, Imm. . What Nation Needs: Better Prize Fights, More Baseball Prophet? By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem All people do not agree per fectly on anything, which may ac count for the odor of garlic in some quarters and the absence of it in others. I have never been what might be termed even a lukewarm Edward G. Robtnson fan. But as the conceited Por tuguese fisherman In "Tiger Shark," which picture had a Sa lem showing early in the week, I thought him excellent. May as well 'fess up. Ninety per cent of the Iowa fairs failed to pay out this sea son. But there have been bad years before in Iowa. Iowa al ways "comes back." I met up- one day this week with a drunken unit of the float ing population who assured me earnestly that what this country needs above everything else Is better heavyweight prise fights. It was, at any rate, a change from the usual forebodings ot na tional revolution and disaster so popular -with some of these chaps as a topic of conversation. A number, of fairly good Jokes hare been made, .with reference to Director Gehlhar's proposed LVbull fight" for the state fair. Only fairly good. It Is quite dif ficult to see anything tunny In a bull or evea In a simple -game of tag played with a bulL , Dr. Copeland's ?Dally Health Talks' are always Interesting, I read ,them every morning Imme diately: after I have read Mr. Spragae's editorials. From the health talks I pass directly to the comic strips, which may ac count for this: A worried reader asks the doctor -what to do for burning feet, and the doctor tells then many may have changed their minds on such a large bond Issue la these times." ) 1 7 & H. TALMADGE him. Bat why bother the doctor? Why not try mustard Mustard is recommended by some of oar best sufferers for hot dogs. Baseball prophets are busy. The world series begins Wednes day, Salem day at the fair. Why cannot more prophets confine their Impulses to such eheerful matters as baseball t ; Tie the- happy seasoa when a man cannot be quite sure whether he Is about-to barst In to a gentle perspiration or is on the verge ot aa. attack of goose pimples.' - -. rThe sunbeams kiss askant the i sombre hnv The naked woodbine climbs the wtndow-siU, , - The breaths that noon expels are faint and chill." Perhaps you recall that poem on Indian summer in tte old reader. It was, I think, written by some New England poet, and was quite a long poem and difficult to read because of its lack of sing song quality. It being a poem for hlch I never cared greatly. It sticks closely to my memory and is constantly bursting out Why Is It that the things one does noftry to remember are those he cannot forget? Doubtless a reason exists for everything.-Little satisfaction In that. The old ooema of wnlrh I think most affectionately should do easy to commit to memory. But they are not In these later years I have essayed to tuck Gray'a Elegy away In my head aa someining worth the tucking. I nave not been entirely successful in the attempt Yet that con founded poem about Indian sum mer wUl not depart. It is a nroh- lem in psychology, X presume, but not worm solution. Certain oems aronsa tertala memories. Leigh Hunt's "Aboa Ben Adhem waa ever a favorite with. me. it was a bit odd. the way I came to know the TO A4m . T IS at n neglected to prepare myself for' a grammar school rhetorical day and I was worried. In that school the pupils were called alohabet. Ically. I took n reader from my ubsk ana opened it at random. Dear old Abou showed up. Be tween "C" and T I crammed him Into my head, passed the book to the girl la -front for prompting, nnd was ready, sweat ing from every pore, when my (Turn to Page 11) Daily Thought "Tor though from oaf oar bourne of Time and Place " . The flood may bear xae far, 1 I hop to sea my Pilot face U taca -Whea l have crossed the bar. ' - Tennyson.