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?AGE FOTJIl .The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning; January 21, 1934 KNi&WS GIRL' By JOAN CLAYTON - 1 WhyNtffiyWeO& ) - "No Favor Sways tjs; No Fear Shall Atop" From Firt Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. J ' Chuuxs AJ Snucux - -'' Editor-Manager Sheldox F.i Saocett '" Managing Editor . Member Of the Associated Press The Assooiaied Press is exclusively enUtled to tha ose (or publica tion of alt bows dispatches credited te it or not otberwtso credited la this pa par. , , .,,- . ; i j ADVERTISING , Portland Representative . Gordon: B. Bell. Security ButldhiK, Portland, Ore. :': Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant, Griffith Branson, Inc. Chicago, New Tork, Detroit. ; i - Boston, Atlanta - Entered at tAe Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, as SecondrClatt Matter Published every morning except Monday. liusineti , office, SIS & Commercial Street. , , SUBSCRIPTION RATES t Kan Subscription Bates, in Advance. Within Oregon: Dally and Sunday, 1 Mo. SO cents: S Mo. Il.tt; Mo. $2.2i; 1 year $.. Kleewhero 10 cents per Mo, or S.O0 for 1 year in advance. By City Carrier: 4S cents a month; $5.09 a year in advance. Per Copy t cents. On trains and News Stands i cents. Gag TN adopting a rule which prevents any amendment from X the floor on appropriations .of representatives that body takes a long step backwards. It is a further abdication of its legislative responsiDiuty, a iur ther confession that it will not function according to its con stitutional and historical character. The rule was forced through at the behest of the administration, although many democrats revolted and the jority of only five. The growth! of parliaments on its insistence on control of historic in "the middle of the 17th century when the indepen dents in parliament sought to curtail the money-raising de mands of Charles Stuart. By this amendment the president becomes the appropriating authority through control of the committee on appropriations. out what he intimated in his escence of the executive and legislative departments of gov ernment. It was this which prompted Sen. McNary to de- clare his message was the finest repeal of the constitution he had ever heard . The cause of human liberty is centralized in the hands of one man or a small group of men. There is no necessity in this emergency for congress to abdicate. The president has the veto power over legislation which should be sufficient without reaching out to impose gag rule in the j chambers which are considering pending measures. Were such an amendment to be proposed in a re publican congress the so-called friends of the people, the congressional progressives and like the Portland Journal would suggestion. But! now never a self-styled friends of liberty. Accept or 7T1HE arbitrary action of the legislature in passing an X other sales tax," says the Oregon Grange Bulletin, 'after the people had spoken in no uncertain terms against this system of extracting pennies from the poor, leads to the thought that if democracy is to work, the results of elections must be accepted alike who lose.' ! : . A question! arises over what is meant by "accepting". In the case of the sales tax of last summer, which was re jected by the people, every party acquiesced in the verdict and no sales tax was ever, levied or collected. Does accept : mean however that the question that is the meaning, how may ment? For the! grange was long active for an income tax, presenting it time and again after it was rejected by the -people. And the grange did not "accept" defeat on power ' I 'll t !-. 1 'L 3 1 J 1 ' 1- XI 1. mu jegisiauon wnicn n endorsed ana wmcn me peupie re jected at the polls. ' The pending sales tax should be examined on its mer- its, and not discarded because sales tax, somewhat different ago. In a popular government ouiesce in the decision of the jneans should require them to ' or to continue to work for legislative changes they deem ad visable. Out of long experience minorities often wind up as majorities. j Just an Echo! "Looks like coming government ownership ot railroads. Next It may be a tryout ot single tax In every state. In Oregon this Henry George idea was tried and failed two or three times. - By the way, where is W. S. U'Ren, or was his heart not fully in It and he was merely working only tor the money there was in It? What a glorious opportunity there would cow be to win! Everything is 1 being tried and, with the consent of Portland, Blngle tax might be resurrected and put through." H. I. GUI " tn Wood burn Independent. Yes, there was once a ation on land. But the pendulum has swung in the other di rection, and now the cry is universal for relief of real prop erty from taxation. The income tax was designed to afford such relief , and it does to the sales tax is another effort to tax puts all the burden, on the erty, incomes, sales, and improvements on real property. We think the state outside of Portland has enough sense not to attempt a single tax, which is ern forms of -wealth creation The liquor commission promises that every county In the state will soon have a ram store. Not that there has been any deficiency that was noticeable, especially since repeal: but so the state may be getting revenues from sale. It will be interesting te observe whether the patrons will stick to their bootlegger when the state store comes tn. Price will no doubt be a factor; ox quality oy tae state stores. At aiae west was airaid the bandit who asked for her "poke" ot money would smash her nose It she resisted. Mae was wise to hand over the money. She saved her face anyway; and that seems to be uaw vuici. aua iu iuet "1 ' n A MnnhltMlt. WAV. AM 1 i.v mm mm tiauuu, .a v ermont, eenoing a sen ator and a representative to congress. Termont keeps the faith of : Calvin fnnTMita .V . Ji , . v vwu,n imvu wo ycuuiuuiu swuigs sue wiu nave company. . .Xt i8" to look taoogh Carter Glass Is the only republican left la she senate. Inat aa wa .ti. f k.. v. .v . -1 "vw 7 . . . w vo wiu wai rcpuoucan ia uie What chance wfil tha tve Jury, ten ot whom are middle-aged tiAW -will Va. ritl. I . , a. " . Spokane Is having a ski tournament today, but they had to . ravw ui Rule bills submitted to the house amendment carried by a ma has beeri largely conditioned the purse. This battle was Thus he seems te be carrying presidential message, the coal is jeopardized when power the demagogue newspapers wail loud and long over the complaint is heard from these Acquiesce? by those who win and those may not be resubmitted? If the grange advance the argu the people voted against a in character, some montns minorities must always ac- majorities, but that by no surrender honest convictions the grange must realize that movement to put all the tax extent of its collections. The relieve real property. Single land, relieving personal prop certainly not adapted to mod and transfer. plus perhaps a' better guarantee least the brands should be honest . . . " ""w yu. awua eeems uregoa delegaUon la congres. T - miri.ut urM..t- v.. married women? Well, maybe a. - . a . T uis7 awt w ogie tne dames. uvu u.a uucaan mountains- "" tWHKmNi ft. lirM, m. 6 a ! , - ., at ,..- i ' : - (tin mm Health By Royal S. Copeland, M.D. NOT SO long ago I tola you nome- thlng about earache. Ia that article it was pointed out that repeated at tacks of earache may b a stgn of some serious dis turbance. That condition re quires Immediate attention and U neglected may lead to perma nent damage and distressing deaf ness. A report print ed in a recent number of the New Tork State Journal of Medi cine, states that defective hearing is uncomfortably prevalent among Dr. Copeland school children. This state of affairs Is unfortunate and should be dealt with vigorously. Though complete deafness is not as common nor as difficult to detect as partial deafness. It Is all too com mon. To prevent it. It Is of the greatest Importance that defects in hearing be recognized at an early age. Testing the Hearing Early recognition of this handicap Is exceedingly difficult with the facili ties at the command ot the public schools. The usual watch-tick test, the use of the tuning fork and the whisper test, are excellent methods of testing the hearing. Unfortunate ly, these are not very practical when examining a large number of chil dren. In addition, these tests are not thorough enough to detect partial deafness. I am glad to say that the use ot these old-tlmo methods is no longer necessary. A new instrument has been devised. By the use ot this device, as many as forty children can be examined in a period ot fifteen to twenty minutes. The results of such examinations are more than gratifying. X hope it will be made available to all schools. I cannot say too much about the Importance of early recognition ot impaired bearing tn children. Bear in mind that a child who is Ustlesa, Inattentive or backward in his school work, may be so only because his hearing ia impaired. "ProbUm" Child I believe that aQ children absent from school because of an ear, nose er throat condition, or because ot the after effects ot scarlet fever or some other infectious disease, should be taken to the physician, for a careful examination of tha hearing. This procedure Is also advised for children who show marked backwardness in their school work, especially those with faulty speech, and all who are referred to as "problem children". When teachers, as well as parents. realize the significance of ear disease and are instructed In the means of preventing this disorder, the preva lence of deafness will be greatly di mlnlahed.T I am more than confident that when proper measures are taken for the relief of ear defects the wel fare of our children win be greatly advanced. Do not overlook the signs ot de fective hearing. Bear ia mind that this, as weft as poor vision. Is a com mon cause of backwardness In school. Neglect ot such defects ts a serious stumbling block to the prog ress of the afflicted child. ' Answers t Health Qaeeiea B. P. Q. Would nasal catarrh cause halitosis? A. Yes. it is possible. Clear UP the underlying catarrhal condition. (CopvriaM, 1U, X. F. 8H lcj GRAND SIASTKK VISITS HOLALLA, Jan. 29. Georre f. winnow, Tillamook, grand maatMP at - nraran fMA Yallnw lodges, visited the MolaUa lodge Wednesday night. The meeting was attended by almost 100 mem bers from Canby, Rock Creek, Sil verton, Portland; Salem and Mo-Ulla.-Addresser by Winslow and Adam Knight, Canby grand secre tary of the encamnment. wr tha Ifeatves jit tail ejenjnj. fry Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS The case of C. J. Helt, reformed In Oregon prison: S The magazine section of the Sunday Oregonian has been run ning a series of articles, conclud ed in the last issue, "by C. J. Helt, as told to Hal M. White," with Bensatlonal headlines and pictures, telUng about the long service ot Helt in the Oregon penitentiary tor train robbery, after a career of crime in California. S In a few words: Mr. Helt, away back under the administrations of Governors Lord, Geer and Cham berlain, served a long term in the Oregon prison, and, as he himself told it, endured a lot of incon veniences on account of the poor accommodations and indifferent fare there. He was hard boiled, a recidi vist, consorted with Harry Tracy, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape, and suffered the then pre scribed penalty of a flogging at the whipping post. Some time thereafter, concluding from , the lessons of his own experiences that a career ot crime did not and could not pay, he took to reading books in the prison library and. all by himself, with" no prompt ings from the administration at the institution, reformed. And. as the story goes, he did well after final release; accumulated prop erty fast; was lucky in real estate deals, and has gone straight; is now a successful poultry breeder near Eugene. S He laid on a good deal ot "sob stuff" In his story, and made it appear rather raw in its details. There was complaint concern ing prison conditions during sev eral periods In the time Helt was serving b,ia sentence. In one of these periods, there was especial ly vicious propaganda, and Rev. Thomas L. Eliot, the famous min ister of the Portland Unitarian church, preached a hot sermon to his large congregation, con demning the purported abuses at the Oregon institution, In which he charged that the food was scant and awful and the punitive prac tices horrible. The late A. N. Gilbert ot Salem was superintendent ot the prison then, and he wrote Rev. Eliot a letter, inviting him to make a per sonal investigation; to come un announced and incognito, choos ing his own time, and, making himself known only to him (Gil bertj or the warden, who was then Henry Brophy, he would be given all the time he wished, and every opportunity, to make in quiries. a Rev. EUot so came. He spent a good deal ot time interviewing the key men on the Inside from whom the propaganda was chiefly com tng. More than that. Rev. EUot was given a meal with the in mates, at one ot the tables at which they were regularly served, and with the a a m dishes and utensils they used. This, also without the least chance for ad vance notice. a 1 The upshot?, Rev. Eliot wrote Superintendent GUbert a letter ia which he acknowledged that he had been misled, and, more than this, ho preached another sermon, In the course ot which ho apolo gized for the injurious strictures ot his former one. That settled that Rev, Eliot was an honest as well as aa able man. Of course, he did not find, and did not expect to find, Ideal con ditions ia the Oregon peniten tiary. The buildings were old. They were not wen fitted or arranged & Meatlfij jgej, eiea for the dark days when they were erected and furnished. They have been much Improved since the time Mr. Gilbert had charge; but some of the handicaps ot faulty construction and arrangement ner- slst to this day. As to the old whipping nost and cornoral nnnlshment. thesa devices and practices are aU but things of the past in nearly au American prisons, and happily so. But Mr. Helt. who furnished the material for the Oregonian articles, while he paints his own experience in connection with them as black as he could find English words adequate for the purpose, goes on to say that It was after this horrible nightmare of his soul that he beean readme books, and thus was led to what he describes as his reiuvenatlon and reformation. Is it too much to sav that, in his case, he is blaming the very horse that carried htm safely over the stream? And that oerhans. in his case, no other horse would have been strong and tall enough to bring him xver? Mind von. this is not Justify ing the use of that horse in other cases of this kind. The best equipped and one of the best managed prisons in 'the world is the Minnesota state peni tentiary at Stillwater In that state. No corporal punishment is em ployed there; no "bull pen." either, ' and no solitary confine ment, in the old sense of complete darkness and a blanket and bread and water for definite terms. The wrltpr. last vr nw th solitary confinement cells in that prison-i-only four or five of them, for over 1300 Inmates. And, at that time, ther were emntv. Thev are dark, and solitary. But when one Is used, the man who has broken a rule of the Institution is given ample and clean bedding, and, at .meal times, he is furnish ed adequate food to preserve his health, but limited as to variety. He is told that he may remain in solitary" as lone as he likes an hour, a day, a month, or long er. And he may cut his time as short as may please his own whims. He may be restored to his former status and quarters the minute he Is ready- to acknowl edge the error he has committed, and promise to behave himself thereafter. The average penalty? Two or three days. There had. last year, been no successful escape from Stillwater prison tor 24 years. Of course. there are few attempts, rhnnrh tne number of men outside the walls, on. "trusty" duties, as in the farm employments. Is always considerable, proportionate to the whole -population. Farm industries are various, an eh as creamery, with a cheese factory planned etc., etc., with more land in pros pect, in order that all the hams and bacon, etc., might be prepared there, from hogs raised oa the place. H In every state of tha union, ex cepting seven, cornoral nnnlah. ment has been abolished. It has also'gone the war of the rack and thumbscrew la all the federal pri sons. Including those ot the naval ana military arms of our govern ment The seven states in which cor poral punishment is stlU used, for offences committed in their atata prisons, are all in the south. They are: Arkansas, the only punish ment Mississippi; 15 blows ot the strap aUowtd. fiouifc, garaU&a, ga i CHAPTER FQTT-SEYEN x ' ) Patricia was on her feet, was struggling with tha window. The curtains blew into her eyes, whipped past Into the room, billowing like flying banners, stiff and wringing: wet. The garden, lost in swooping darkness, was a sheet of solid rain. Tugging, sobbing she rot thi win dow down and saw the neat round hole that cut the glass. A bullet hole! Someone hidden in the fury of the night had stood outside, taken careful aim, pulled a trig ger. Julian, concentrated en his cards, his white head a perfect tar get had never known what struck him. He had been alive one instant dead the next i Who, then, had opened the win dow? Who had turned off the light? Where was the murderer now? As a last and final touch of horror, Patricia guessed. The mur derer was in the house. Screaming she fled -from the room, through the half open doof into the dark ness ot the corridor, running blind ly, bumping against the walls. She knew one thins only. Somehow she must reach a telephone. She darted for the living room. The storm was shrieking with a thousand tongues. As she reached the foyer there was a roll of thun der and a flash of lightning, un earthly blue. The foyer was bnl tiantly illuminated and the long and curving stairs. A man was coming down the stairs, a flash light in his hand. The girl saw him and he saw her. The man was Bill MeGee. His sinister triumphant smile was the last thing Patricia saw. The walls seemed to rock in ward, the floor seemed to melt be neath her feet She sighed, swayed and slid unconscious to the floor.... Somewhere far off Patricia heard a dull and muffled engine throbbing. like the purring of a giant engine. Her head ached, ached. She opened vague eyes, tried to rise, moaned and sank back again. A bar of sun light shone on a bright green car pet That puzzled her. In the gray ness of half-consciousness she re membered rain, pouring rain. She was about to close her eyes again when in one sickening instant it all came back, the scene in the card . room, Julian sitting open-eyed with a bullet in his brain, her frenzied flight toward the living room, Bill McGee moving down the stairs. He was coming toward her. Where were the servants? "Annie," sereamed the girl. "Annie. Annie." No one answered. The echoes died te brassy silence. She was quite alone. She swung her feet to the floor and somehow stood. She stared dazedly at the bed where she had lain, a strange bed, fastened to the wall. The small, cheerful, sunny room was entirely unfamil iar. The floor was swaying oddly beneath her feet The distant throb bing too was odd. AU at once she realized-that she was aboard a boat In a kind of frenzied panic she staggered to the porthole op posite. Outside was a waste of sun lit water. . There was a door, locked. The girl hammered, pounded, shouted to exhaustion. No one answered. How had she got here? Who had brought her here? Dropping to a chair she wept in weariness and bewilderment and despair. It was a long time before she tried to think it out When she thought it out she felt the beginning of fear intolerable. She had fainted. It was Bill McGee who had brought her here. "Kidnapped," Patricia said aloud. It was Bill MeGee who had brought her here and Bill McGee had murdered Julian Haverholt She felt that she was living through some evil dream. This could not be true. At any minute now Julian would be shouting at Never Kick a Hot Stove Door Shut With Toe oi Your Rubber By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem "When winter comes can spring be far away?" Apparently it can not. It makes an effort to with draw now and then, but without much success. Thus far this sea son. History is a record ot momen tous events, some ot which arc secondary, and others ot which are not worth the space they take on the clock. I said as much to a visitor from up valley one day this week. But it didn't prevent him from telling me of what his pa once told him ot seeing Dan Rice's circus here back in the '60s. If the story is true, and it may be in part Dan Rice was the first man to bring a circus into the Willamette valley. The statement has an historical flavor, and is probably as exact as much other history. It is pos sibly true, as the visitor said, that the attractions ot the Rice ag gregation included Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt and the two Warren girls, the four most fa mous dwarfs in the world; the Kentucky giant Colonel Bates, and the giantess whom he mltl mately married. Miss Swan, each of whom was almost eight feet tall without high-heeled footwear, which boosted their height to somewhat more than eight feet; prison farms, and also in Tennes see and Alabama. Texas, 20 blows allowed. Virginia, where Its use is restricted. The reader must know that prt toners la the south are largely black, and that they are segre gated, even In penal Institutions, from the- whites. But the reader will be surprised to know that of late the proportionate number of white to black inmates has been increasing , in. other words, there is mora reformation among the bad colored folks than among- the bad "poor white trashy . y-XCoatlwB4 pa Taday), " The doer opened slowly. A man stood there, a young man with a stupid brutish face whoa she had never seen before. her door, his arms full of the morn ing papers. Julian. He was dead, murdered. This was the morning of his triumph and he was dead. The girl bent her head and sobbed for him. Julian Haverholt had been her enemy; he had been her friend. He had given her all he knew how to give; he had tried to rob her of her heart's desire; he had loved her in the only way he knew; he had done his best to wreck her life. She had quarreled with him; she had laughed with him; she had hated him hot she had been fond of him, too ell that was nothing now as the. man himself was noth ing. "Julian," she whispered in the silence, "Julian." She was sitting very quietly, her eyes bleak and despairing, fixed upon the porthole, upon the danc ing sunlit waves, when she heard the rattle of a key, Instantly she sprang to her feet and backed against the wall. The door opened slowly. A man stood there, a young man with a stupid brutish face, a man whom she had never seen be fore. He carried a tin tray of food. "I guess you're hungry," he said, ealra and matter of fact "Let me out of here," Patricia cried and made a mad rush for the door. "That wont do no good," he an nounced indifferently and kicked to the door. He asked a second time, "Are you hungry?" "You've got to let me out of here. Open that door, I tell you, open that door. You can't do this to me!" "What are you going to do about it sweetheart?" he inquired, sUil indifferent but grinning slightly. She stood very still. A bitter realization of the futility of any protest stopped her. Tears, hys teria, pleading, threats would never move this man. "What are you go ing to do about it?" he had asked her. Indeed what could she do 7 She sat down again. Her hands were trembling as she smoothed her skirt but her voice was steadier as -she said: "Where are we?" Without troubling to answer, the other placed his trsy upon a table, poured out a cup of tea and hand ed it to her. "You better drink that" She drank the tea, she ate the burned toast the badly cooked eggs, the strips of thick, frizzled D. H. TALMADGE and a monstrous elephant which later had Its name changed and became the "Jumbo" of the Bar num 4k Bailey show. I am willing to let the dwarfs and the giants stand for what they may bo worth, but I am un able to Bwallow the "Jumbo" story. r-ernaps something it wrong with me, but it Is a fact that I have had only two really good laughs la two weeks. Eddie Can tor, who has been cavorting through the - Goldwyn spectacle, "Roman Scandals." at tha r.mnd during the week, caused one of taese laugas. tad W. a Fields In "Tilly and Gus" at-another the atre ceased th,e other. And now Ton know the aort: of grouch I V- -i bacon, while her companion loung ed against the bunk watching her. "Feel better now, sister?" She said In a low, savage voice, "111 feel better when Bill MeGee hangs for the murder of Julian Haverholt" , "I guess he won't" the other re plied, with an odd, unexpected chuckle. "Wont what?" she demanded sharply. , "I guess Bill wont hang this trip. Maybe, you don't know it but Bill, he's smart You'd be sur prised." Terror clutched at her heart She felt the sweat spring into her palms and bead her forehead. She saw the man stretch a languid arm into the bunk, lift a smart pigskin bag and drop it to the floor. It was her own bag, the bag that she had packed the night before. "Aren't yon going to unpack, sister?" He added significantly, "Youll be with us quite a spelL" The girl swallowed with a dry throat mat does Bill want with me?" "Hell tell you himself. Hell come aboard at nine o'clock. BQl probably will want to see you first thing." With which statement he left the room, dosing and locking the door behind him. The slow hours drag ged by. Patricia paced up and down, evolving in her mind a thousand futile plans. Darkness fell slowly. Outside the water turned from blue to gray, from gray to black. As night closed down, the girl's panic grew. She beat upon the door and the unyielding glass of the porthole. That got her. nowhere. She sobbed and stormed. That got her nowhere too. There must be some way out What was it? Press ing her hand against her aching: head she tried to think and thought of nothing. They were coming in to shore. She had first seen the twinkling lights of land with a wild hope that had long since vanished. She was trapped below. Suddenly, after a long time, there was a bumping and a scraping, the stateroom rock ed to and fro, the engine ceased its throbbing. They had docked! Bill was aboard, was coming below. She heard his footsteps outside her door. He was in the room. Cr Be Continued) 1932, Ij Krat Fcttura Syndicate. In A person should, of course, be able to laugh heartily when some body falls and breaks a leg or something, but I can't. Just gloomy. What a grand thing is content ment! Dolph Eitch, at Dover Crossing, said his name may not have been so darn elegant as some names, but you had to ad mit it was catchy. Never kick a hot stove door shut with the toe ot your rubber. Seems as If you should hare known better than to do that Who's afraid of the nice warm rain? An eastern irreconcilable de clares in a news weekly that pro hibition will soon be restored to the national constitution. I reck on he just felt like saying some thing. Motion picture advertising In eastern newsnanera fat aaisl tn Ka showing the effects of the drastic censorsnip system set up recently by Will Hays. The new regula tions forbid "leg art" and pic tures ot nudes or semi-nudes. Not in effect here aa yet Or is it? Following every "roar" the film producers order a clean-up ot indecent and misleading adver tising. The NRA roar may be ef fective. Probably the busiest daytime block in Salem is Liberty street between Court and State. Bnt the greatest traffic Is carried by Com mercial street tn. which wheels are turning day and night . An elderly man tells me that he fears he Is breaking down, be cause when he eats aa onion on Sunday he can still taste It next Friday. Shucks! that isn't a sign of a breakdown. It shows only that he has "tumbled" to some thing. The most interesting news from southern California these days OSnet 4a ArlraU JeUaca. - v
