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By City Carrier: 45 cents a month; $5.09 a year tn advance. Pur Copy S cents. On trains and News Stands t cents. A Bad Amendment TY7HILE many of the amendments which the senate made jYY to the Beckman liquor control bill are corrective and proper, one amendment changes materially the operation of the act, adds to its expanse, and seems indefensible. This is the amendment which makes the commissioners salaried of ficials at $3600 a year. tThis changes the commissioner from a high-type indi vidual performing a service to the state out of a sense of public duty and for the honor of his good name, merely to another political office. This does not insinuate that many now holding salaried positions in state affairs are not wor thy men; but the tendency is to regard salaried off ices mere ly as political spoils to be passed around with every change in the executive. The highway commission offers a fine example of where men of high standing devote their talents in the public ser vice without receiving salaries. The board of higher educa tion is another example. The compensation there is $10 per day. After the liquor commission is organized and established most of the work can be left to a responsible executive. The commission would need to meet only periodically to pass on licenses, revoke permits, etc. A per diem and expenses are enough for high type men and women to serve on the com mission. Make it a salaried job. and perforce you get just ,$3600 ability. There i3 another danger. A commission composed of sal varied members would be more inclined to build up their bu reaus as a political machine, whereas members whose occu pations were those of business or professional men and wom en would not have the temptation to entrench themselves politically. Instead thfiy would bring to their responsibilities a fresher and less biased viewpoint, and be able to dispose of the problems with greater independence of judgment. - - We hope the legislature before it is too late, reconsiders this amendment. It might even be better to vest the authority in the board of control with power to appoint an administra tor rather than to create another salaried commission. ' Peek-a-Boo THUNDER on the right in the presidential zoo! And George Peek appears to be on the way but. Pres. Roose velt "approved a farm aid bill which had all the screwy ideas in it that the crackpots of all parties could conceive of from pig-slaughtering to greenback money. Then he turned the job of carrying out the act to a weird collection of college professors, farm evangelists and hired hands. As a result they have been fighting among themselves and all round the lot, united only in a desire to save the farmers and their jobs. George Peek is an ex-farm machinery manufacturer. His company went bust with a bang in the first post-war crack-up ; and he has been a violent f arm-relief -er ever since. Eut he couldn't get along with Professor Tugwell, FDR's ag riculturist from Morningside heights. And the AAA got in a jam withNRA, when the latter was absorbing all the pub licity and shoving up prices of finished goods much faster than AAA could do with farm commodities. This democratic experimental bunk is no worse and no better, except that it is more extensive, than the Hoover farm relief with its farm board and its half billion of loose change ; and an ex-Campbellite preacher put in charge of the grain corporation at a salary of fifty grand or so. Most of this bunk is put over not by genuine dirt farm ers but by those who farm the farmers, who extract due3 from them and then think they have to raise hell in order to keep the dues coming in. Then there are the natural-born crusaders who are sincere but addle-pated. " The crackpots are as unsafe leaders as the reactionaries and the hide-bound conservatives who never learn anything and never forget anything. Farming may recover in this country, if it isn t legislated to death. Grain Plant at Vancouver NEWS comes that a big grain elevator is to be erected at Vancouver, Wash, with capacity of two million bushels. It is being put up by the outfit which Henry Collins is now working for. Henry was a big wheat man at Pendleton and Fred Steiwer got him the job .at $25,000 a year to run the farm board set-up in the northwest, which he did, selling his string of warehouses to the grain co-op at prices which included plenty for "going concern" value. When the gov ernment quit pouring money down the grain co-op rathole, Collins tied up with a Paris outfit which i3 breaking into the wheat business in this part of the country. The elevator at Vancouver will be unique in that it is lo cated on the Columbia below bridges. It can be served by rail or by boat. The prospect is for greater use of the Columbia for wheat transport from the interior, so the Vancouver ele vator is strategically located for, transfer from upriver, boats " to- ocean vessels. The location of ) the plant at ' Vancouver should give a new push to the argument for making the locks at Bonneville adequate to care for sizable vessels. ... Why a new elevator? Chiefly, we suppose, because there is a new company. While wheat production is not increasing in the northwest, in spite of the 15 acreage reduction under AAA, more of the grain is moving in bulk, This means faster movement from the interior where most of the storage is stiH warehousing for sacked grain. Located across the river at Vancouver, the plant will still be in the Portland area, and is fresh proof of the importance of the Columbia river as a trade route which dominates the topogiaphy of the northwest. :w Legislative Delay rpHE ; legislature always has many critics; and always those rTi 0vCondmn.5e for "not doin anything". Some fJwTStnti? tbose wlftfa legislature who SfregSatioT6 thC d6laya in enactiD cs -n ws jer thus. Delay is inherent in the legislative U ! J ies each acting independent- l5i t! wnnatae membership of wMch overlaps. You ir'fj anxious to present its views on pend foSTOgiU1011 f cour those who mayPwish v, fi'" the fault of legislatures is not that they, delay, but that they do not delay enough. Defects are Salem. Oreaon. at Second-Claaa MB ft' Ma' J sffiwwX-'' Bits for Breakfast By R, J. HENDRICKS "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" ap pUed to the members of the legislature who Toted to override governor's flax veto: Every member of the Oregon legislature who honestly voted his convictions ' on the primary principle involved In answering yes to the roll calls on the lssne of overriding the governor's veto of the "flax bill- not swayed by political expediency is entitled to respect, no matter how mis taken he may be. And the writer believes each such member is thinking in terms of the "blood-rusted" and cruel past in the domain of penology. "s e As to Oregon and the present day, he is still further behind the procession. "a Here in the Willamette valley we have a potential Industry des tined to bring to Oregon a $100, 000,000 annual business bring, lng that amount of money mainly from far places. Tea, a more than $200,000,000 annual industry la the course of time, which will surely come. V Our state flax Industry at the penitentiary has for 18 yean been an experiment station, preparing the way for the $3,500,000 flax and linen industry that is now to Daily Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M.D. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States senator from New Tork Former Commit Mioner of Health, New York City EVERYONE IS interested in bow to prevent colds. Yet few take one sim ple precaution necessary to guard against this common affliction. I refer to the Im- I portance of prop er ventilation as a means of pro tection against colds. Contrary to the belief held by our forefathers and many per sons of this pres- iot generation. fresh air. even night air. Is not detrimental to health and does not cause disease. In fact, it can be Vr. Copeland truthfully stated that In winter poor ventilation of homes, public buildings and convey ances, such as trains and street cars. Is the most common factor in pro ducing colds and other respiratory diseases. Breathing Vitiated Air This Is confirmed by the prevalence of the common cold during the win ter months. I am sorry to say that windows and doors which are always kept open during the summer months are tlghUy shut as soon as the weather becomes cold. This Increases the danger of exposure to germs that are capable of causing coughs, colds and other disabling infections. Bear In mind that disease Is rarely if ever caused by cold air - It Is more frequently the result of lack of fresh air. Fresh air Is necessary for good health. It stimulates the ' appeUte, aids digestion, and tncree the re- apparent in laws because sufficient time was not taken in their preparation. In the present special session the most essential measures will be enacted before it closes, with the possible exception of school relief ; and that may fail not for lack of time but for lack of accord. As we see it the bigger danger is that the legislature may pass too many bills rather than too few" 1 be backed by government funds to that extent and even with all this, only a fair beginning will be made. S The tentative plan calls for 12 retting and scutching plants at that many points up and down the valley, at something like $40,000 each; or a total of $480,000; the rest to be devoted to mills and manufacturing, from the fiber stage up. As will shortly be seen, the sights will have to be raised to something like $100,000 for each retting and scutching plant. In order to make full rounded, effi cient and economically operated units including some 49 pullers and half dozen scutching ma chines for each one or $1,200. 000 in all. To give the reasons would take too much space for this Issue. S S How are the pullers and scutch ing machines to be had? Bought from the outside, the pollers alone would cost nearly $100,000, and the scutching machines near ly $20,000. They can be built la the penitentiary plant for a total of some $18,000. And each la an intricate piece of machinery, comparable to a perfecting press or a linotype machine. S S Who knows how to operate them, can have extra parts for them, or can repair them? No- sistanc of the body against disease. Vitiated air is air that Is not fresh. It Is produced when a room Is over heated and improperly ventilated, it is air that has been breathed over and over again. When the lungs take In impure air, headache, dizziness, nausea and even collapse, may occur. Continued breathing of impure air lowers the .resistance of the body against the germs of tuberculosis, pneumonia, grippe and other respiratory diseases. Open Window, Top and Bottom Proper ventilation la a simple measure of guarding against disease. An elaborate method of ventilation la not necessary to Insure fresh air. AH that is necessary Is to provide a con tinuous stream of fresh air. This Is readily accomplished by window ven tilation. Keep the windows open a bit at top and bottom. 'Avoid drafts by using screens. Keep the doors closed when the win dows are opened. Though I advise that yon keep the windows open I do not mean that yon should submit to chilling or excessive cold. The temperature of the room should be about seventy degree Fahrenheit. Unfortunately, most homes are overheated. In most Instances, then, there is excessive dryness of Che air. Bear la mind that this Irritates the lining of th nose and throat and pre pares the way tor the common Infec tions. This dryness of the air can be prevented by placing a pan of water, on the radiator, beater or stove. When the water evaporates moist ore la added to the air and makes tt bet ter suited to the human needs. " Answers to Healtk Qaariee U. E. B. Q. What do yon ad rise for perspiring feet? - A- Send self -addressed, stamped envelope for further particulars and repeat your Question. ' iCopvngXt. 19SS. JC T. f lmej y bodr. outside of the orison 6hoos and flax industry. Does the writer not see how vital Is the flax in dustry? Vital to the setting on foot and the success of the $3, 500.000 federal nroiect looklna- to doubling Salem's population quicxiy, ana to Keep on doubling It, up to the 500,000 mark, and to nutting 10.000.000 nrosoerons people at work in the Willamette valley, directly and indirectly, In due course of time. a The orison nlant is only a start er; years hence It will be a mere drop In the bucket but the vital drop making the whole content fruitful in sustaining a gigantic Industry. How little it Is now! One mill, the Miles linen mill in Salem, takes aU the finest grades of fiber from the -prison plant and has to Import from abroad as much, for sunnlrinr the demand for shoe and harness threads and the best twines! a "a There Is an effort of organized labor to bring the various states in line with the Hawes-Cooper act of congress, which Is to be operative Jan. 19; next month; rive years after passage. This law seeks to ban from anv other state prison made articles sought to be shipped Into a state tnat bans them by state law. Some dozen states hare passed such a law. The vetoed bill was supposed to be uniform with the Hawes-cooper act. But the Oregon act that was vetoed put more teeth In It went much further. It enjoined the board of control to not ship out prison made goods, even on sus picion tha they were prison made. The members who voted to override it, some of them at least, believed it would not injure our state flax industrj-. They were mistaken. They read the English language and its Implications wrongly. But let that go the veto stands. How mistaken, however, were the organized and labor and grange lobbyists who worked for the overriding of the veto! They were looking only an inch beyond their noses; straining at gnats. V They were virtuaUy seeking to throttle in the beginning no in dustry that promises more for la bor than any other thing Oregon has or wUl ever have. All kinds of labor. On the farm, la every kind of industry, large or small. Bring $200,000,000 annually from far places to Oregon, and what have you? One of the rich est commonwealths in all our sis terhood of states.. Not this year or next year only, but for all time as long as the sun shines, grass grows and wa ter seeks its level. V The natural conditions are all here in the Willamette valley God given to the last Item: soft water, low. altitude for spinning, summer sunshine for drying the flax literally everything. And here is the only place in the wide world where there are 500,000 acres of. perfect fiber flax land within trucking dis tance of the mills. We hare the soU, sunshine and showers and aU the other requisites "in abso lute perfection of combination. We have been sleeping at our posts ever since the first covered wagon trains crossed the plains. Now we are in sight of the prom ised land. . S V - As to the matter of penology. Organised labor Is "all wet", on this. Read this: A man works on a scutching machine tn our prison flax plant. He gets wages. He supports his needy family on the outside. He has a place to go when released. He was tn the ranks of labor before he was sent to prison. He is in the ranks of labor now. He will be in the ranks of labor after release. An gTHOFSIS ' Tear that BOl Ifc&ee, the rack eteer, weald wreak vengeance on her and her family if aha refused UrtHt with Uaa, ceased lovely Patricia Warrap to accept his In vitations. BUI la shot ky a riral gangster white la Pat's company. Pat rashes koaaa in Uttot and her stepatother pais her owt, saying the police are looking for Pat UaaMe to tad caapIeymemW Pat resorts to her card skill sad plays professional bridge. Julian Haverholt, noted bridge expert, snakes her his part ner. While they are diacossiag kasi neaai details at his home, Clark Tracy, the polo player and Pat's secret love, calls. She had met mat ones bat he does not recognize her. Haverholt introduces Pat as his niece. She Is indignant, bat he ex plains later that he waa thinking of her reputation and that it would be advisable for her to assume that role as long as she is to stay at his home. Pat visits her old home and finds that BiU McGee has wrecked her stepmother's dressmaking shop be cause Pat fled from him the night of the shooting. She returns to Haverholt who premises to protect her. Accustomed to poverty, Pat revels in the luxury of her sur roundings. Heading an announce ment of Clark's approaching marriage to Marthe March, Pat ex periences pangs of jealousy. While playing bridge with two young men, Haverholt embarrasses Pat by ridi cnlinr her rune. When she retali ates by criticizing his bidding, he Is furious. Pat rushes to her room in tears. Haverholt comes to her and, try as she might, Pat can't be angry with him. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Like one hypnotized Patricia heard herself agree to go down stairs, to resume the play. She had said none of the things she had planned to say; she had gained none of the promises she had plan ned to gain. Her rebellion had died aborning. Nor had Haverholt fin ished. Clasping his hands about his knees, bending his gray eyes upon her, he said gravely: "Every bridge, team that is sue eessf ul, Patricia, had a follower and a leader, a follower who is steady and conservative, a leader who pro vides the thrills, the psychics and the fireworks, a leader who decides the campaign, a follower who ac cepts his dicta unquestioningly, a leader who may be wildly uncon ventional, a follower who is rigidly conventional, always. We bridge players call them pitcher and catch' er. Which player are you going to be, Patricia, in our team pitcher or catcher?'' "I guess," said the girl in a small voice, "1 guess 111 be the catcher." "Right," said the man contented' ly, "you are." Her surrender was complete. She understood that, and, strangely, found no humiliation in the thought. Suddenly, strangely, Patricia knew that arrogant, insolent, egotistical as he was, she would not change Julian Haverholt. In some dim way she realized that it was better that she should be defeated always than that he should be defeated once, He would not yield fh anything; he could not. He would die before he gave ground. ' "Let's shake , hands on it, Pa tricia." Gravely she gave him her hand. "We should mark this day some how," said Haverholt, smiling at his own drama, "this day when we reached understanding. I'd like to give you something. What will you have, Patricia? A string of pearls, a "diamond ring, what will yon have?" ' "I don't want anything," she pro tested, embarrassed. "You must have aomething. Young girls always cherish a pet desire, don't they!" "Very well, then," said Patricia abruptly. "I'd like a Madison road ster with wire wheels." average of two and a half men every week day walks out of the prison's front gate; comes down town in a "fish" suit with $5 in his pocket. Whither shall he go unless he shall have worked in the flax plant? Wiflther shall he go? What shall he do? Answer that, and re flect on all its implications. Why, communistic Russia is 50 00 years ahead of Oregon and all the states of our union ex cepting Minnesota and the states of the south, and half a dozen others In the north. In Russia, now, every man in prison gets the same wages he would earn on the outside. He re turns to society on the same foot ing that he, left it. Read Warden Lawes's "20,000 Years In Sing Sing." Read the story of San Quentin, with the largest prison school in the world with more students than our State College at Corvallis; with more high university degree teachers than are at Corvallis and every last one of them an in mate. Adelia Franklin Dies; Funeral Is Today atVoodburn WOODBTJRN, Dec. f. Fun eral services for Mrs. Adelia Franilin, 84, who died at West Woodburn Wednesday morning, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m. from the Hau-Rlngo chapel In Woodburn. Rev. Percy M. Hammond, pastor of the Woodburn Methodist Episcopal church will officiate. Burial will be at the Belle Passl cemetery. ' Mrs. Franklin was born in New York. For nearly SO years she has lived tn . the Woodburn dis trict. She is survived by two sons, W. E. Franklin and C. E. Frank lin of West Woodburn, and a brother, Ralph Ridout, of Koos kia, Idaho. "Julian is crazy about you, too," Clark pursued with the kindliest of impulses. Haverholt looked at her medi tatively. "You shall have one tomorrow," he promised. "But I'd certainly like to know how your pet desire hap pened to take such a sudden and definite form." Patricia did not tell him. The next afternoon promptly at three o'clock Patricia appeared at the Madison Automobile show rooms. Julian Haverholt had prom ised to meet her there. At fourteen minutes after three he had not yet arrived. Recalling his oft-repeated statement that he never waited for anyone, that people always waited for him, Patricia smiled rather grimly. Suddenly through the plate glass windows she spied Julian Haverholt alighting from a taxi. Another man followed him to the sidewalk. They stood talking a minute, arguing, it seemed. Patricia's heart began to beat hard and fast. The second man was Clark Tracy. The two came in together. Patricia was smiling, outwardly composed, when they approached her. She extended a slim, cool hand in greeting. "I didn't expect to see you, Mr. Tracy." Her tone was dignified and gra dons, but her color was a little high. "I didn't expect to be here; only I ran into Julian and he was good enough to let me come along." "I suppose you've picked out half a dozen cars by. now," commented Haverholt amusedly, enjoying her Cashed cheeks and starry eyes. This is no place to keep a young woman waiting. I should have known better." "No, you're wrong," Patricia told him seriously. Frora the very first I've settled on the yellow roadster. the one over there." She pointed. The roadster was sleek and low and flashing in the sunshine. Patricia drew a long breath. "Isn t it per fectly stunning?" she demanded. Her voice was full of youth and rapture. The men's eyes met over her head. They smiled together. "I should guess that you were a little excited," suggested Clark; slowly, appreciatively, looking down at her. In a kind of sudden sur prise, tt struck him that Haver- holt's niece was an exceptionally beautiful girl. That blazing hair waa perfect with her clear, petal like skin. She was natural and un affected, too; a charming child, all In an. TD SELL YULE SEAL HAYES VILLE, Dec. 7 The seal sale contest is on at the school with Marcelle Fry and Sa chlo Furuyama as captains. Sales ar,e being made rapidly and about half the seals are sold. Mrs. Gaylon Siddell returned Wednesday from a trip to Seattle A PUPILS IN CONTEST 11 r . - .... . "Simply jumping np and down inside," she confessed gayly. "A grand feeling, isn't HI" "It's swell." The salesman appeared, "Our Mr. Brown," suave, correct in a morning coat, wearing a gardenia in his buttonhole, a polite, uneager man, willing to give the trio all the leisure they wished. Super-sales manship had no dace in the Madi son organization. In Mr. Brown's modest estimation, he, by selling a Madison, was conferring a distinct favor upon the lucky buyer. Still, Mr. Brown was agreeably startled by the speed of this transaction. "You needn't bother showing us r anything," Haverholt informed him, "My niece has dedded upon the roadster." He indicated with his stick the proper car and felt for his bill fold. "I believe I have sufficient cash and we'd like immediate deliv ery." "Immediate delivery," murmured the dazed Mr. Brown, feeling the reins of authority slip out of his hands. "That's a little irregular, Mr. Haverholt," he suggested. "It usually takes us several days." "There's no reason, is there, why Miss Haverholt cant have the car on the floor?" "I'm afraid that isnt possible. We'd better consult the manager." The two men disappeared into the manager's office, the salesman still a little limp, Haverholt brisk and authoritative, anxious to get the matter completed. Clark glanc ed significantly at Patricia. "Julian will have, hjs own way," he predicted. "He will," conceded Patriae proudly. "Your uncle is s most remark able man." Patricia flushed. "He Is," she agreed. , "Julian is crazy about you, too," Clark pursued with the kindliest of impulses. "Ordinarily, I think of him aa being a self-sufficient sort of person, but on the subject of his niece he grows positively lyrical. Talked of nothing except you all the way uptown." The conversation had taken a turn which made Patrida uneasy and anxious. She did not wish to discuss Julian Haverholt with Clark Tracy, certainly not in this fashion. She felt baffled, troubled, uncertain, a little frightened. Clark himself,' seeing her confusion, not under standing it at all, shifted the chan nel of talk. j (T Be Coab'oaerf) I O 1912. by Kiac Features Syndicate. Inc. ' J where she has been spending a fortnight -with her sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Siddell accompanied her as far as Portland where she visited her daughter, Mrs. Harry White. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Baysinger, who formerly operated a service station at Hill Crest, have leased the L. B. George station. Mr. Baysinger also does battery work and greasing. The young couple have remodeled the garage and are residing there. Edna and Vernon Boergen en tered the Hayesville school from Portland this week. An Important Human Service, The evolution of the technique of the funeral director has transformed him from a seller of funeral merchandise into a m&n whose high profession en ables him to contribute a defin ite human service. It is his pri vilege to dignify the last ser vices, to give them beauty and reverence so that they are a real solace to those who mourn. Funerals Since 1891 I . - it 1