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1 1 PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, - Friday Morning, September 29, 1933 VM Favor Sways Vt; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chaeles A. Sfbacus - , - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett, . Managing Editor t Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press to exclusively entitled to the uu for publica. tten of all news dlspatchea credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper. i . j , " ' . -ADVERTISING Portland Representative . Gordon B. Bell. Portland, Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives . Bryant. Griffith Brunaon. lac. Cbteeca, New Terk. Detroit. Boston. Atlanta Entered at the Potto ff tee at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clasa Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office, H5 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Malt Subscription Rates, in Advance. "Within Orton: Daily and Sunday. 1 Ma SO cents; t Mo $1.25; Mo. $X.ti; 1 year . Elsewhere 58 cents per Uo, or $5.60 for 1 year in advance, t By City Carrier: S cents a month; $5.00 a year la advance, Per Copy 1 cents. On trains end News Stands i cent. TUATC TV TV UrW" By FRANCIS W ass as m aaaw Calling the Legislature fTlHE Medford Mail-Tribune somewhat excitedly editorial X. izes on the need for a. snpeial pssinn of the legislature. and expresses the hope that an upstate report no special ses sion is to be called "is baseless rumor and nothing more It goes on to day: ! "For certainly this state never has needed a special session more. There Is the tax problem to be sol red, the relief-problem, the liquor problem, the problem of higher education and many other problems. "A SPECIAL SESSION MUST BB CALLED! It Is Inconceiv able that any responsible leaders upstate or anywhere else, would thtnk any other coarse possible, at the present time." It is not so much a question of whether a special session will be called; but when. The only item calling for immediate , 1 ? . 1 At A? consideration is provision zor poor reuei ; ana uie cuuuura i .amS ltnlif!nii elt1l Ka a Vila - Iru-iV a-ffo- tftia 'fni- tho ra.! miander of the year. . Liquor legislation appears imminent; but repeal of the ISth amendment must be followed by repeal of the Volstead act before state legislation would be effective. Of course a session held in advance of these steps could enact contingent legislation but it might be j better to await congressional action respecting the tax which the federal government will place on liquor. Another matter on the agenda of a special session may be the truck bill. It will be however some time before the supreme court passes on the 1933 act. This gives another Teason for deferring the call for a session for several months. There is nothing to be hoped for from the session in the way of alteration of the tax system. The mountain labored last winter and brought forth the sales tax, which the peo ple forthwith rejected. The legislature might repeal the folly of the Mott bill; but the members at the last session seemed disposed to make it easier for delinquents than harder. IA special session will be imperative, for liquor control if for nothing else ; but the governor is probably well advised til 'defer making the call until after the turn of the year. Otherwise we may need two sessions instead of one. t.t1' -i'rt. Price-Fixing PUBLICITY sent out by the NRA headquarters in Port land denounces price-fixing agreements of local inter ests like the barbers, claiming they "are violations of the NRA code".1 We do not see where this is correct. NRA does not impose price-fixing agreements (save for the big fellows in oil, coal and lumber industries), but it does not prohibit such agreements. The code is silent on the subject of mutual agreement among competitors in any given line of trade. The only clause which might be interpreted to stretch to cover such a rilling is the one limiting increases on price of goods. But unless price agreements violate this provision, they are not barred by NRA. I NRA inevitably leads to price-fixing. In the larcre indus tries that is frankly admitted, witness the lumber, oil 'and coal codes. The administrator is about to approve of the ! retailers code which fixes stop prices ' on all merchandise. When governmental control starts there is hard to find a stopping place short of absolute socialism. Maybe NRA can find a middle ground where it can supervise prices and re strict profits. That is what makes the experiment unique. There are arguments for and against price agreements iby local tradesmen and artisans. People expect to pay the I same price for milk, for gasoline, etc. In other lines like merchandise they are habituated to "shopping around" for bargains. In a free economic society competition fixes prices ; in a controlled society prices are stabilized. The trouble with the former condition is cutthroat competition which is apt to be ruinous all round. The trouble with the other is the danger of price gouging through agreements which neces sarily protect the inefficient producer; and the danger of economic lethargy, which discourages progress in economical operation. We doubt if there is a "happy medium . xvve will probably continue to bump along between the two extremes, just as we have for centuries. Soviet Wheat Dumping ' TaTJSSIA is threatening to be the bad boy again. The lead XV ing nations of the world meeting in London recently effected a wheat agreement covering exports and imports of bread grains for next year.. Russia was not represented; but the other nations kindly wrote the ticket for her, setting Russian exports at 37,000,000 bushels. It merely remained .to get Russia s okay to the plan. This year, it seems, Russia is having a good wheat crop The starving millions there need it; but Russia needs foreign goods too; and wheat is one means to be used for the pur chase. So Russia asks to export 75,000,000 bu. This may be bluff because there is such a wheat vacuum in Russia that it would seem they could consume their production this win ter. But the threat endangers the truce which wheat - countries have been working out. Our own country is proposing to subsidize wheat exports, which Is actual "dumDinz". in order to clear the bin in this northwest. The deal is now pending under which 40 . 1 4 J a a a. - . mimon ousneis win De snipped out to Europe and to South America and China. Naturally we do not like to have Russia join in the dumping. Her exports in 1930 broke the worw prices and started the decline in wheat prices. The mithvtlr la inAaAA . , . . s'wmj , ve may need to reduce our production more than .15 to restore1 profits to wheat . A..New,Tor.M 1wyer tinmllT called the government's hlaff. on gold hoarding. Ha filed en tt to tt ., ... decree 'ordering the turning to of gold;, and the government ; re- - wuvicu. a.9 u iae owner oc izet.gea in gold bars which he- left la a New York bank for aafe-keeplng. It will be a uiiiuii( case, iuv iriai win oe one or tae Judiciary as well as one of the law. it will i, a rat v-wi... .. rl.TT they are. Independent interpreters of the constitution: or whether t?l 1M huff m-A ... - J .... . .. - .. ' j uuh wuio uuuct ae coae , or ut executive s . veu mm uittusiry, i . , .. "j,'-". r SYNOPSIS ; i - . ..'!. . - .6-3 I i " i "Big Jeff" Randolph, new In his second year en the Thorndyke var aity and one of the nation's great est football stars, baa bad a bril liant grid career ever since his high school days la little Athena, mid-west factory town, where Mom! and Pop and the rest f the family are new listening wrer the radio to the game between their boy's great eastern smrrertity-aad Indiana State. Tig Jeff" is Just Tonus back home which he Tisits est vacations and startles with bis secial-aartorial pleader. He's gone somewhat high-hat with the seal f Tboradyke apoa him and baa drift -4 ed away from Dorothy,, Whitney, daughter of the richest maa in Athena the awner of the glass. i i t. i n a.i ww mm isi woicsi sua rvf HUVHt't , , Theradyke Is leadiag, 7-f , thanks to a toachdowa paaa hy "Big Jeff, as the game goes Into its latter half with Charlie Whitney, Athens tycoon; his daughter, Dorothy; aad her escort, Jerry Randall, in the hoge throng packing the Stadium. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The late afternoon chill was upon .the crowd in the Stadium. Jerry Randall offered bis flask to Doro thy; she declined; but Charlie Whit ney accepted and then Jerry bad bis drink. He smiled at the girl: "Yon women amaze ma. Look at Elaine Winthrop down there.' Dorothy sodded. She bad been noting the yooajr womaa fa; the short leopard Jacket; for reasons different thaaerrya. "That littler jacket and her kgs oat like a couple of orphans. Freddy's- sitting there wrapped vp in a- bearskfa coat and pickled in gin butahe hasn't had a drink yet." "Perhaps she doesn't like it,' Dorothy said. "Don't fool yourself. She's a deep weU, that lady, and there's nothing aha doesnt like. "Who is she?" "Plenty. Back Bay. Park Arenne. plays araond with art the kind of social register which tinkles Broad way columns." Jerry wasn't usually so informa tive but he had had many drinks to help him keep warm. Elaine Win throp had come through for Dorothy's- estimate. Those legs Jerry had noticed were twin bits of shapely slim bamboo: every touch of her revealed the artist. "Come on, Jeff, do something,1 Jerry complained. A note in his voice caught Dorothy's attention. It hadnt been an inspiring game; after the first sudden touchdown the Indiana team had changed its defensive tactics, switched them smartly according to Charlie Whitney and Dorothy knew her father had a good knowl edge of football. He answered now; . "It's a tough game, Jerry. Those boys from home are getting better as they go and I imagine they're giving Tom a good rough afternoon unless I m mistaken." "A hero is supposed to be heroic," Jerry maintained, "that's what he's here for." His voice and his manner were annoying. Dorothy hadnt been greatly excited about the game. Normally she would have wanted Indiana to win but Thorndyke was Jerry's school and because Tommy played there it had become Charlie Whitney's chief passion of the foot ball season. Dorothy had had no keen interest either way. "That's what he's paid for," Jerry continued. "Jerry that's unfair," Dorothy objected. He turned to her, a slow smile on his cheery face; his eyes were a trifle uncertain. "Come on. Dot why kid ourselves?" Charlie Whitney "was warning her. Dorothy did not answer. : The game took a quick turn. to be Another flood in China, with lost of 60,000 lives. Wo refoso grievo over tho disaster however. hr-itA th rnt .n- .... - ... .... ' oir Bccuti , wo filled With now births. It take flonA tail .mi,-... -ww an w w VP aaBBiaX) a) 11,1 SB, VO W eMMt m P .down China's population. Those devices are counterparts of Sec. iiiiuv,, uhuuciu iur surplus piss. left bia feet with tremendous drive ... the ball popped frees Carttea's arma ... Thorndyke reeovered itl Indiana bad beea stubborn, de fensively, bat Inept on the offense. Now the Thorndyke lino seemed to aag suddenly, to grow-limp. Red Jerseys began to pour through - and behind them came Carlton, the Hoosier fallback, bowline bia way, head to his knees and the ball buried somewhere within the cavern of his short arma and beSy. They crossed mid Acid a short pass made first down oa the Thorn dyke S7-yard line. "Weill" Charlio Whitney said. The stands were alive to the sit uation, sensing one of those sodden crackups of good teams. Indiana shonted for its men to come on for a tie and a moral victory; Thorn dyke implored: "Hold that line! Hold that line! Take it away! Take it away! Stop Carlton! Stop Carl ton!" Cold shadows were upon the field but the men of Indiana hopped and charged into position with the fire of reprieve the quick, buoyant spring of unexpected release. They had a fighting chance and were tak ing it. They encouraged each other. Carlton was surrounded by his happy teammates after each charge; and each time, after sur rendering the ball to the referee, he jumped back to his position, his fist in the air, beating the air with staccato jerks. "He's marvellous," Dorothy whispered.' '- Thorndyke - dug la desperately each time the crimson wave hurled it back. Fresh men ran out from the Pilgrim bench, fresh men with clean uniforms, dancing step, fire and determination. They were met by Tom Randolph after they re ported to the referee; he pushed them into position; pounded their backs; shouted at them. Tom was backing np the line, roving from side to side, trying to diagnose the plays; he was in every play but the crimson march went on. "What's the matter with him?" Jerry demanded, "Why don't he get in there?" j There was a touch of sharpness in Charlie Whitney's answer. "They're sending two men onTom riding him out of the play; they've been doing it all day; he's stopping most of them as it is bat he never gets a clean shot at Carlton; it's always from the side or behind." The ball was on the 22-yard line. Dorothy looked at the clock. About eight minutes to play. Plenty of time. "Come on, Tom!" It came out unbidden. Charlie Whitney sodded. Dorothy knew, then, which aide she really favored. She wanted Tom Randolph to win. He was tired; be was trying bard; and be was play in against odds. "We've got to atop Carl ton!" Charlie Whitney said, desperate aa though bia fortune depended upon stopping Carlton. "If Tom could only get a shot at him they've been smart with their plays. Out guess them Tom " Charlie was Talking to Tom Ran dolph as though he were his own son. The ball was on the 18-yard line. A wide hole opened in the Pil grim line; so wide that Carlton came through without being touched a weak side play, a sur prise play which depended so much on its deception that Carlton was sent through without interference while his usual blockers went off as decoys. "Attaboy Tom." Charlie Whitney was up, shouting, waving his hat. Dorothy was up. The entire stad ium crowd was up. It had happened so quickly they had not been pre pared. Tom had outguessed thenwper haps it was a mere accident that he was out there but when Carlton had burst through the line at top speed, Tom was directly in his path, coming forward to meet him. He left his feet with tremendous drive and whistled forward. The impact was heard in the stands. Tom's shoulder bashed into Carlton's lowered torso. Carlton was stopped cold. The ball fell from his arms. Players from both teams scrambled for it. The white-clad referee dove among them, came up quickly and threw his arm ener getically, pointing to the Indiana goal. Thorndyke's ball! The Pilgrim crowd shouted in delirious relief; the Hoosier groan waa barely audible. Then there was silence. (Te Be Contioaed) Coprrizht, 1932. by FrsacM Wallace Distributed by KJaf Festaree Sradacate, Iae. Clearing the Business Skies i Oregon doesn't need a new capita! tax. Present ones are proving effective in separating a land-owner from his property. sifT XN KA J KS fe BITS BREAKFAST for -By R. J. HCNDRICKS John B. Horner: A great Oregonian: - (Continuing from yesterday:) Prof. Horner did not stop study ing after his - graduation from Philomath and Willamette. He at tended summer school at Harvard university in 1897. and was a member of Saturday excursion parties to battlefields of the Revo lutionary war and other historic spots connected . with the begin nings and early struggles of the people who settled our country and laid the foundations sot the American government. a m Later ha attended a summer course of lectures at the Univer sity of California. In 1029 Wil lamette university conferred upon him the degree of L. H. D. Whit man college. Walla Walla. Wash., gave him a like degree the follow ing year. Considering that he could not be the kind of a history teacher that he aspired to become. In 1906 Prof. Horner planned a long de ferred trip to Europe, Asia and Africa. In order that he might see the places where much of the his tory of the past was made. He had not felt able theretofore to bear the expenses j of such a journey, and he planned to go alone, though he regretted that the fam ily purse was not large enough to allow the drain of including the cost for two. But a fortunate shift was made, to his great delight, and Mrs. Hor ner went along. She did not receive the good news until 10 o'clock of the day planned for the start and they were away at 1 o'clock. It was always that way with them. They "traveled light," with no thought of elaborate prepara tions through the assistance of dressmaker or tailor. And they nearly Invariably went together. Their grips were always packed. Especially was this true with Prof. Horner, with three or four articles of apparel stowed, ever including his well-worn Bible. , S As Indicated, they were started wtih notice-to her of only three hours, on, a tour that took them three months to complete. He carried his camera every where and took thousands of pic tpres, many of which he made into slides to be used in lectures. The man who made the slides for the famous Stoddard was three months at the home of the Hor ners in Corvallis, at which time he taught the Oregon historian the art of making slides. There was no better teacher In the world and no professional had many points above those mastered by Mr- Horner. Stored methodically in the Hor ner home at Corvallis are over 6000 slides made by him; cata logued according to the best ap proved ideals. Every intimate Ore gon friend of the dead historian has framed in his home enlarged photographs presented by Prof. Horner after one of his Jaunts to historic spots. The writer has sev eral; the pyramids of Egypt, the sphinx, etc., etc. "a The Homers made a second tour abroad in 1911, and this time there were four in the party the whole family including the two daughters. And they all took notes, and wrote them out carefully. While in a historic city of Eu rope, Dr. Horner chided one of the daughters for her supposed laxity in making notes. After their return home, ho was obliged to call upon her to supplement his own records. She bad exceeded her father in getting Information that he considered Important which increased his already great pride In her. . All of this anxiety and avidity for getting facts and illustrations made John B. Horner unique as a teacher: especially a teacher of history. Anyone who ever heard him in classes will testify to the freshness and Individuality of his methods. He led his students to see historic incidentsdv viiyl to see historic incidents vividly: made them as it were living wit- TELLS HOW SHE TOOK 4 INS. OFF HIPS 7 INS. OFF WAIST S In 40 davs bv taklna- Vm Salts, Mrs. Helga Blaugh of New York City reduced 26J lbs. took4 inches off htns - s In r tie. oft bust and 7 inches off waist. o wnies: i naven t gone hun gry a moment I feel fin a and look 10 yrs. younger." -a""" a-aaaaaaa nesses of the epochal struggles and developments of the past. a la f a Oregon will never ha7e another teacher of history as good as was J. B. Horner, unless he or she shall prepare himself or herself in the same ways-that he stored his mind with facts and took notes and pictures to- keep them alive and available. He did not let the spotlight of publicity that surrounded a great deal of his work spoil him. . He was the same unassuming, unpre tending companion and friend from boyhood and early manhood to the end. He had a like ambi tion to be useful to his students and to his state from his first to his last teaching days. and plat form appearances, the same sense of humor; the hame human touch es and likes for his fellows, low or high, learned or unlearned. m And he wished to and did "see America first." And his state, too. He visited every nook and corner of Oregon, landed its wonders of nature, admired and praised its beauties and bounties, and ex plained and made others see and appreciate them. He literally was a friend to all men and women and children. He had no enemies; not one person on earth did he hold as an enemy. But while his sympathies were wide and deep enough, to cover the human race, above all others he loved most dearly his family -and in them was his greatest joy and his high est pride. While he was held for three weeks, against his wish to bo out and at his tasks, as a patient at the Good Samaritan hospital In Portland the last days of June, 1926. be dictated to one of his nurses a mass of Information, most of It concerning his own life experiences and, titled "My Joy in My Family," he whispered Into the ear of his transcribing helper these concluding words: S "a "a "I am very happy because of my relations with mankind in gen eral, but of all I am happiest be cause of my family relations, which could scarcely be improved. I feel that my wife and daughters are striving upward day by day with earnest, determined but sane effort and that they are all for one another in our family. In all my acquaintance I do not know of a family of which It can be more truly paid: 'The whole is for the part and the part is for the whole.' ' a "a Dr. Horner never talked about dying. He said on several occa sions, when called upon for exer tions which his friends warned him were too much for his strength, that he would persist though the extra effort ended his career. And. once, casually, he said that he wished for no great monument only a rough rock with space on it made sufficiently smooth for his name. Aad sc it is to be. And the greater monument and infinitely more enduring is In the lives of the multitudes he inspired and the works he left in printed and pictured for for the good of the stlte, country and world he loved. Unionvale Farmer Given Disastrous Lesson in Canning DAYTON. Sept. 2S. Waldo Maker, young farmer of the Unionvale neighborhood, Thurs day night reveived deep and pain ful burns in one ear. on face, for head and neck when assisting his wife to remove a glass jar of boil ing hot pear butter that exploded as soon as he removed it from the boiler. The cold pack home method of sterilizing the fruit Jiad been used and the explosion is presumed to have been caused by the hot jar coming suddenly iu contact with cooler air. Yesterdays ' ... Of Old Salem Town Talks from the States Tan of Earlier Days i ' September 20, 190S Ex-State Senator R. A. Booth of Eugene, contributes $10,000 toward second $100,000 of Wil lamette university's endowment fund; endowment bow approxi mates $160,000. Board of trade committee to re port glowing prospects for mining development in Gold Creek dis trict on the Santlam river; sup port of smelter asked. i r Fourteen deer' killed in Cow Creek canyon by Sheriff Minto of Marion county, and party, ex Sheriff F. T. Wrightman of Jef ferson, W. L. Jones of Jefferson, and Attorney General George G. Bingham. Septemlx-r 29, 1023 Seven boxing matches on arm ory smoker program tonight: "Dubs" Mulkey vs. Earl Snyder, Chet Lindley vs. Bill Pool, Big Bill Hunt vs. "Lone Wolf" Me-, Donald and Phil Bayee vs. Billy Leonard. ; Percy A. Cupper, former state engineer, opens engineering and law office here; was appointed state engineer by the late Govern or Withycombe In 19 IS. Sixty second state fair financial success, says Fred B. Curry, fair board secretary; paid admisssions number 70,000. Rocky Point Gets 19 Student First Day of School Year SHAW, Sept. 2. -Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams are the par ents of a son born Sunday. This is their fourth child and second son. The Rocky Point school started Monday with the enrollment of 19 pupils. The first grade consists of one pupil. Dorothy Stuhr. Mrs. Viola Miller Is teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Zuber and family have moved into the house on the Klucker place. 21 Pupils Register For Country School PLEASANTDALE. Sept. !S. 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Money back It not joyfully satis fied , adr. 0 Pi?taai?sr The first essential in banking is STRENGTH.- In the Salem Branch you have the full strength of the United States National Bank of Portland its a saf eguarchfor your deposits. Now as service is the second essential, you will be interested to know how we have geared the service here- to the needs of this community. Resources over 85 millions. Salem Braized of the United la4es National IBank o f Portland ' Head Officet Portland, Oregon T t a t