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1, PACE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salens Oregon, Friday Morning, January 19, 1934 (11 1 1 fit i r i t 4 i i.-I I It! Eh 2 H Y s. M 2 Ao Faror Sways Ifa; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ChCLES A. SnUGUE . - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sac&XTT ... - - Managing Editor ' Member of the Th Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th. use for publica tion of all news despatches credited ts it or not otherwise credited to tttlrnaper. ar-imnnnrnr-rm l m i n 1 - " ADVERTISING Portland Representative - Gordon B. Bell. Security BuildtA. Portland. Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant. Griffith a Branson, lac. Oih-aKO. New York. Detroit. Boston. Atlanta Entered at the Tostoffice at Salem, Oregon, cut Second-Clan Hatter. Published every morning except Monday. flusines ffice, SIS S. Commercial Street. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Malt Subscription Rates. Ii Advance. Within Oregon : Dally and Bunoay. I Ma St cents: 1 Mo $1.25: Mo. 12.25: 1 year $4.00. ttlsewher l cents per Mot. or 11.00 for 1 year la advance. BjMCtry Carrier: S cents a month : a year in advance. Per Copy cents. On trains and News Stands I cents. Mixing Law and Politics CHARGES have been made in the inquiry into the letting of air mail contracts that former Postmaster General Brown and his assistant destroyed correspondence relating to the awards of contracts. Even worse insinuations have been made. It is easy to make charges and the political oppo sition now in power would relish such morsels against the old regime. Brown was a politician of the old school. Perhaps he used the contracts as a means of rewarding friends and pun dishing enemies. The method was not original with him. ; But what the country is coming to is higher ideals of ser . vice. Public work should be transacted in a manner that there is nothing to cover up. Undoubtedly each official has a mass of useless correspondence which may properly be de stroyed when he retires from office. But there should be nothing included which would give the slightest excuse for a charge of covering things up. The democrats have had to do a little house-cleaning of their own. National committeemen who happened to be lawyers moved into Washington, hung out their shingles, and vere at once overrun with clients. Arthur Mullen, Nebraska committeeman, is credited with cleaning up" $300,000 since the new deal got under way. Robert Jackson, New Hamp shire, resigned as secretary of the committee when Pres. Roosevelt made some pointed remarks about not mixing law and, politics. Bruce Kremer of Montana, has resigned the treasurership of the committee, to continue his law practice. Mullen says he practices law on his merits and hangs onto his political office. This again is not new. National commit teemen to their own profit have mixed law and politics, they could do it conveniently by spending a few weeks of the year in Washington. They were not quite so raw as the dem ocratic invaders. Os West reported there was a democratic lawyer for every dollar back in Washington. Some have hint ed that Roosevelt will be betrayed as was Harding. We do not believe so ; but where the carcass of the public treasury is, the vultures are sure to hover round. Laving in Texas A judge in San Antonio, Texas, who had something to dc with the tax levy, raised his eyebrows over an item to advertise San Antonio in hopes of attracting settlers. Said . t the learned judge : "The purpose of the tax is detrimental to the general public welfare and calculated to create in the minds of the people living outside the city of San Antonio in another part of the world dis satisfaction with their present home and environment and to .lead them into the mistaken idea that their condition would be bettered by leaving their former home and going to San Antonio. The people should not be disturbed in their mental attitude to ward their homes by misleading and flaming statements that tome other part of the earth is to be preferred as a residence ' or a place of business. I think the idea is altogether wrong and should ba discouraged." -, The fact that the judge resides in San Antcnio explains everything. His conscience simply would not permit him to approve of a plan to induce others to settle there. And few there are who will question his opinion, at least none with memories of San Antonio climate and fleas. " But when it comes to the paradise of the Pacific, this western coast where nature is kind, then the residents hero are swept with evangelistic fervor. They just can't help but urge peopleito leave the lands of fevers and ague, of bliz zards and cyclones and come to this land at rainbow's end. And no judge would dare utter such "slander" on his home town, if he lived in Oregon. .Last winter when this valley shivered in zero weather Alaska towns reported temperatures above freezing. This winter the reverse is true. We are enjoying a California win ter (sans sunshine) but Alaska reports 65 below at Fair banks. That is quite close enough for such minimums. But we do need more snow in our mountains. If we do not get a storm soon they will have to sprinkle tapioca on the ski course for the winter sports carnival. The only chill we have ntd all winter came from the beautiful snow scene pictures in the Oregon Motorist for January. It is still some weeks till the calendar says spring, so the berry buds better keep the covers on for awhile. The attorney general rules that the government has pow er to confiscate the gold in the federal reserve banks. Under the ancient rule that sovereignty is unlimited this is prob ably true. A government may void its contracts, break its treaties, defraud its debtors. Governments and kings have done this frequently in history. This is the first time how ever that the United States ever resorted to such a practice. - Bids are mounting on St. Paul brewers. Last summer the ransom fee for one was $100,000. Now the figure is dou bled for a banker-brewer-democrat. Still, that is just too much money for a democrat to have and still be a friend of the common people. - jl perwmtt free s)re1til PILES guaranteed removed witbont knife or needle. OLD BORES of anr kind, STUBBORN SKIN IRRITATIONS, and ATHLETIC FEET, if jam bad failed to heal them by other srans. win quickly respond aader oar new method. Our sternal rmiedlen annaraatacd ut ifijim - n cramvoa OOFGHS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, RHEUMATISM, ailments OI UlBUI.tt BXVMIAUH, U LANDS and the URINARY SYSTEM of men and women. IB Tears In banliiM. ! Licensed N. D. physicians. DR. CHAN LAM Chine Medicine Co. 180 N. Com. merciaj St., Salem. Office hoars 9:30 aan. to 1 p.m. . e pan. to 7 p.m. Aanaays ana nncnronys only. ir. Y. X. Lam, N. D. Associated Pres MATURITY-MATERNITY MIDDLE AGE At these three critical periods a woman needs a medicine ah can depend on. That's why so many take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. 98 out of 100 say, "It helps saeT Let it help you, too. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Dr. CtobUe H. Chan, N. D. ' S mi KNAVE'S GIRL CHAPTER FIFTY-SEC It was all over. And Patricia, lying In her own bedroom, safe, secure, flung across the bed, was sobbing. She was still In evening dress. Julian's orchids, crushed and crumpled, still clung to her rhinestone shoulder strap. She had wept, she thought, forever. She thought that she would nev er stop. For weeks she had controlled her self; The floodgates were loos ed at last. Deeper she forced her shaking body into the pillows. She wanted to. beat her head against the floor, to scream un til she could not think, to do any thing that would annihilate the desperation of her spirit. Her own violence wore her out but she was still Bobbing quietly when Julian rapped at the bedroom door. It's very late. Patricia." No answer from the girl. Bits (or Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS When Chinese paid share of state taxes: m S The early pioneers of Oregon were against not onjy slavery, but also the harboring of negroes at all in the country that was being settled and later comers were inclined to make hard sledding for other races with dark, yellow or brown skins. S m The original constitution of the provisional government, framed at the Lee mission and adopted in the open air meeting at Cham poeg July 5, 1843, provided: ."Article 4. There shall be neith er slavery nor Involuntary servi tude in said territory, otherwise than for the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." That made Oregon a free soil country, as it had been in effect since the coming of Jason Lee in 1834, or soon thereafter, when Lee and Dr. John Mc.Loughlin agreed that Indian slavery should be abolished. S S In March, 1844, there was an affray at Oregon City, in which two white men and an Indian were killed one of the white men being Geo. W. LeBreton. sec retary of state for the provisional government and a man of singular usefulness over which affair the public mind was much excited. When it was realized that a tree negro was to blame, it was the general opinion that something ought to be done about it. Something was done. When, the fourth Tuesday in June of that year, the first little legislature of nine members (called legislative committee) met at Oregon City, the opportunity of ridding the in fant empire of Oregon of all black men presented itself. So a law was passed providing that in cases where slaves had been brought into Oregon (as some had been), the owners must remove them within three years from the time of their coming; that, their own ers failing to remove them, they should be free. Also, that any free negro or mulatto in the Coun try, of 18 years or older, should my A - Always the Finest Tobacco , , r ... - J ana only tne Center Leaves "Please unlock the door. Let me in. I must talk to yon. Ton must be sensible." "Go away, Julian. For heaven's sake go away." When yon want me I'll be in the card room. I'll wait. If' need be, till morning but we must talk it out." His footsteps retreated. She heard him going down the stairs. After a long time she sat up and looked dasedly about the familiar, luxurious, rose-colored room. Out side the storm, like her own de spair, had reached its height. Drapes of rosy taffeta shut out the sight of it but not the sound. She could hear the wild dash of the rain against the panes, the creaking of the trees, the howling of the wind. Julian was waiting for her in the card room. As she had seen him a thousand times before, she have two years to get out. It a male, and three years if a female. If younger than 18, terms of ex clusion should run on the attain ment of that age. Penalty for not getting out. whipping, with Z9 stripes, to be repeated every six months, until the colored or half colored person did get out. And the penalty to run against color ed slaves unon eettinsr their free dom within the territory. S S There were no whlnnincs. but the law stood until (and presum ably after) the Oregon country became a territory. When Oreeon adonted a state constitution and was admitted to the union, that instrument con tained this provision: "No free negro or mulatto not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitu tion shall come, reside or be with in this state, or hold any real -estate, or make any contracts or maintain any suits therein; and tne legislative assembly shall pro vide by penal laws for the remov al by public officers of all such negroes or mulattoes and for their effectual exclusion from th state, and for the punishment of persona who shall bring them into the state or employ or har bor them." S That provision was never strict ly enforced, any more than the law of 1844 but it remained in the constitution until it was fin ally voted out at the general elec tion of Nov. 2, 1926, the returns showing 64,954 in favor of re taining it, and 108,332 wishing to have it deleted from our funda mental laws. S But the legislature of 1862, ac cording to the spirit of the con stitution, enacted a law provid ing that every negro. Chinaman or Hawaiian, and mulatto, residing in Oregon should pay an annual poll tax of 85, or falling to do so should be arrested and put to work upon the public . highways at 50 cents a day until the tax, plus the expense of the arrest and collection, should be dis charged. (To be continued) A t .'' v ..... : ' IRHV r&SP V4;Y :-yyy ; rJ-S tmf ; V y' i - svvY ''ii I jf '' ' . & . 04VYY' Y- "Y ' Y ' V' fry''-y" YY?;; vvj x : s; wYY f v tnsam " By JOAN CLAYTON Imagined him now, slumped In the leather arm chair, a pack of cards spread on the table before him, his forehead knotted beneath his shock of snow white hair, his gray eyes intent, his mind absorbed up on some problem of the only game he considered worth a mo ment's concentration. Julian wait ing for her to eome and talk It out. What use was further talk? There had been too much talk al ready. Words that got them no where. Julian would never understand He was incapable of seeing her side of it. For him the problem had been solved. He, Julian Hav- erholt, had saved the situation. He had saved the shreds of her reputation. Certain doors might be shut to her, certain stories might go the rounds, certain very proper people might sniff and raise the eyebrow. The fact 're mained that Julian's audacity and nonchalance had scored again. He had snatched victory from defeat. By his magnetic legerdemain he had turned a major scandal into a front - page romance. The girl admitted that, bleak and unre- joicing. A spotless reputation and here was hardly that was little solace to a breaking heart. Futile to remind herself that oth er girls had married men they did not love for reasons less urgent. She was not like other girls. She was herself. "I can't," she said aloud. "I can't." The storm raged on. The win dows strained as if they might burst in, the latches groaned, Presently she walked across the room, pulled hack the drapes and peered through the streaming panes into the wildness of the night. She stood there for many minntes. Once she whispered, "Clark." The wind whined In maniacal fury, the tree tops rioted togeth er; somewhere- a loosened shut ter, blown with every savage gust, banged to and fro against the house. The cataract of noise was maddening to insanity. That shut ter. There it went aagln. "Why doesn't someone fix It? Patricia demanded in querulous- ness, near hysteria. Her own voice frightened her. Pressing her hands against her throbbing tern pies she turned from the window. jerked at the drapes. Something caught. The pin that held her or chids. She tore the runined flow ers free, flung them to the floor, Suddenly she removed her crumpled frock, walked to the closet and selected not a night gown but a tailored suit. She hardly knew what she was doing, Mechanically, she stepped into the skirt, pulled on the frilly little blouse, the simple coat. Next she changed her stockings and her shoes. Her plan was formulating She had borne enough: she could bear no more. Escape at any cost was the essential thing. To pit her decision against Julian's will, to face his arguments, his threats. his pleadings was impossible to night. And, she must leave to night. At the desk where she had sat so often, she seated herself to write her parting note. How hard B B B LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS Checks Colds first day. Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 minntes, Maralla in 3 days. Fine Laxative aad Tonic Most Speedy Remedies Knows it was to frame. A dozen efforts were east aside. All at onee Pa tricia swept the ernmpled sheets together, tore them Into bits, toss ed them into the wastebasket. "Ton coward," she said. "Ton utter coward." (To be continued) HOME FROM SOUTH WACONDA, Jan. 18 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vlesco, who have made an extended trip to south ern California and Mexico, re turned this week. Improving Benjamin S. Bark J 37S North 24th street, is reported Improving slowly from an illness which has confined him to hU bed for the past three weeks. Obituary Spriggs Mrs. Ella C. Sprlggs, at the residence, 725 Fairmont street, Thursday, Jannary 18, at the age of 86 years. Survived by daugh ter, Mrs. Frank W. Durbin. Mem ber of the Oregon Pioneers of 1852. Private funeral services Saturday, January 20, at 1:30 p. m. in the chapel of Rigdon's mortuary. Rev. George Swift of ficiating; please omit flowers. Tito Charles B. Titus, aged 82, of 2275 Laurel avenue, Tuesday, January 16. Survived by children, Herbert C. Titus of Longvlew, Mrs. D. B. Kleihege of Salem; sisters, Mrs. Corwin Cross of New York, and Mrs. A. B. Palmer of Cascade, Mont,; and five grand daughters. Funeral services will be held from Riedon'a mrrrf nr-r Friday, January 19 at 1:30 p. m.. wun Kev. Humphreys officiating. Fukutomi Florence Fukutomi. at a local hospital, January 17, at the age or iz years. Survived by father. Charley Fukutomi; two sisters. Margaret and Betty; three broth ers, Ray, Jae and Bobby Fukutomi all of Gresham. Remains were for warded to Gresham for Interment by Clough-Barrick company. Rocque Joseph Rocque of 385 Bellevue street, Salem, died January 16. Born at St. Beatrice, Quebec, No vember 23, 1876. Survived by wid ow, Emma Rocque; sisters, Mrs. Eva Campbell of Two Rivers, Wis., Mrs.-Emily Patrow of Goodman, Wis.; brothers, Napoleon Rocque of Salem, Alfred Rocque of Lena, Wis., and Albert Rocque of Green Bay, Wis. Rosary at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening at Salem Mor tuary. Funeral services -Friday morning, January 19, at 8:30 a.m. from St. Joseph's church. Inter ment St. Barbara's cemetery. 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