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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. February 1, 1934 : "No -Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From Fint Statesman, March 23, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A- Spkacub - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F Sackett - - - - - Managing Editor . Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publlca- tion ef all ocwa dlspatclwia credited te It or sot otherwise credited la this paper. - . i ADVERTISING ' Portland Representative Gordon B. Bell. Security Building. Portland, Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant. Griffith St Branson. Int. Chtcaga. New York, Detroit. Boston, Atlanta apaBngim i i n i i iniii ml in r 11 1 I i n Entered at the Pottoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published ejierg 'morning except Monday. Butinett office, S15 S. Commercial Street. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Man Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon! Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. 60 cents; S Mo $1.15 ; Mo. Il.ts ; t year S4.0Q. : KlBewnere eenta per Mo., or f S.OO for 1 year In advance. ; By City Carrier: 45 cents a month; 1 5.0 a year in advance. Per Copy S cents. On trains and News Stands S cents. - County Gets an Agent MARION county gets an agent "without cost to the tax payers. The "without cost" part should be qualified for "state and federal agencies pay half the expense; and ; .farmers in the county who sign up for AAA benefits pay ,the other half. So much work was piling up for local ad ministration of the AAA that some official had to be des lenated to manage the work. The extension service "loaned" Harry Lindgren during the wheat control sign-up period; and he did a good job. Now the county agent will undertake the local application of the corn-hog deal; and later of the dairy and beef cattle deal which is being planned under ; AAA. This should give Marion county a good chance to test out the county agent plan. While his time will at first be . largely taken up with AAA work, there will be periods when he can visit farmers and discuss practical farm problems. A county agent is not merely to encourage production, but to point out ways for economical production, for improve ment in quality, for prevention of plant diseases, etc. . Marion county's agriculture i diversified, everything , on the bill-of-fare from soup to nutsis almost literally true. In Harry Riches, the county will have a practical farmer Sr who Is also technically trained. That combination ought to - succeed. Riches will have the knowledge that comes from years of actual experience in this locality and have back of iim the fund of information which the extension service js . constantly building up. t t City folks have no disposition to "wish" the burden of U a county agent onto the farmers. But the experience of other . counties has been that the farmers found the office so val i uable as a clearing house for information, as an agency for ' directing worth while farm activities that they themselves have insisted on its continuance, in some counties they have raised funds outside the budget to continue the county agent. Now Marion county farmers will have opportunity to - test out the agent plan. If they find the cost is more than off set by the gain then they will be fully justified in asking the county court to make the office permanent. It's up to the farmers. . Relief for Irrigators - . TXTHEN a few weeks ago we criticised allotment of funds ! 11 for investigation of the Benham f alb site on the Des chutes as a, possible location for a dam for irrigation pur - posesxit was with the presumption that the purpose was the j reclamation of new desert areas. Judge Sawyer of Bend, rwho is chairman of the committee, has sent us a copy of the brief submitted to PWA on which the allotment of $50,000 , for survey purposes was made. The object as outlined in the brief is to supplement the present water supply for the ir rigation districts in the Central Oregon area. Due to the de cline in stream flow of the Deschutes the lands now under projects have an insufficient supply of water. The stream flow averaged over 1,100,000 acre feet in the years 1908- 1913, but only 820,000 acre feet in the period 1928-1932. 4 The consequences have been that farmers on the five prin , cipal districts have suffered severely from shortage of water. Benham Falls is located 10 miles south of Bend. If the Bit proves practical and a dam is built there, the impounded - flood waters of winter and spring will be available for sum mer irrigation. Thus the effort is one rather of relief for present farmers than the opening up of new tracts to culti vation. This makes a different and much better case for the survey which has been approved. t - This paper lias never been among those that believes t reclamation should be halted until all farming is made prof I itable. Cities do not stop growing because there are some va , cant houses or because some old structures are unprofitable - investments. At present, it seems practical to delay addition- al projects while those now in development are completed. On .the other hand we can see in good irrigation schemes oppor tunities for thousands of people to find homes. We cannot think of the Rogue river and central Oregon and Hermiston and Vale just in terms of financial success or failure of the , districts as units, but should consider also their suocess as lo- cations of homes of thousands of people where they are living., thriving, and rearing their children under wholesome surroundings, . i li Benham Falls can bring water to thirsty lands and sustain people in their homes, at any reasonable basis of cost, then its development would appear justified. Will the Dollar Come Home? THE immediate question before the administration and the f inandaI world is this: "Will the dollar come home?" 1 i ?epresed the American dollar was the flight of cap rl!? en saw the country' wa3 headed for devaluation. Those who took their capital to gold standard countries when the dollar was worth par or a little Telow may bring it back - now and et $1.66 cents in American currency. That wili net the speculator a nice profit in terms of the dollar. Now if there is a sudden and general repatriation of the dollar . .from abroad, the effect would be to-put American exchange at a premium. So the administration has the two billion dol lar stabilization fund to play with to sell foreign exchange to preyent our 0c dollar from hitting back toward par. 5 We think it'doubtful if the American dollar comes home yery fast Capital is notoriously timid ; and the pros pects are nonetoo good in this country. Safety is still the . first consideration, and until there is assurance that th American dollar is stabilized this fugitive capital will not , return in great volume. It certainly will be better for trade and better for the administration program if there is no r swift return of this capital. For if it does return, it will add to our excess reserves and lay the foundation for a credit ex pansion, which with the cheapened dollar,-may make the inflation of the 1929 period look tame. ,j V Russia' Westminster abbey fa the Wall of the Kremlin. That Is. the likeness extends to the burial place tor fllustrious dead.' Just . as Britain's treat are entombed in the abbey, so Russia honors those famous in the USSR with burial la the Kremlin walL The Kremlin. ancient palace of the tsars at Moscow, Is now the seat of soviet power.. John Reed American communist, is buried there; and the three balloonist who relished after reaehinr tha tilhact inihui. recorded by human beings, 12 & mm miles, are to be entombed in -the I Take This Woman SYNOPSIS After three rears' travel la Europe, where she had rone fol lowing; her father's death,' younf and beaatifal Stanley Paic be came bored and returned te New York te find the "something sort ef sweet and important" which she felt she was missing'. Stanley finds Perry Deverest, handsome yeung lawyer, stfll as much in love with Iter as ever, bat her own heart Is utenched. She loafs for someone te love someone to really belong to. Then she meets the fascinating Drew Armitage. It Is love at sight. Drew's moat recent heart had been sophisticated Dennis St. "John. In breaking with her, he said; Tea know, Dennis, you're a lot like me you know when a thing is ended and you accept it gracefully.' Blareia Wingate invites Stanley and Drew to a dinner party. CHAPTER SEVEN Marcia' dinners were always pleasant affairs. She liked to enter tain and did it graciously and In cessantly. Tonight she sat at the foot of her long" Italian table and admired the high candles in their Renaissance candlesticks, admired the yellow roses that spilled care lessly over onto fine damask, ad mired her husband who sat eating his fish at the opposite end of the table. Ned was good-looking, he was a little brilliant, he was entirely suc cessful. Marcia was glad she had married him. They agreed on all the little things in life and ignored the bigger ones. It made their relation ship pleasant and uncomplicated. Ned was doing exceedingly well in the dignified profession of the law. Tonight Marcia looked at him down the length of her table and won dered how it would seem to be the wife of a Justice of. the Supreme Court. She hoped he wouldn't get fat. Conversation was always rapid and even a bit sparkling at Mar cia's parties. Not being particular ly clever herself, she was wise enough to surround herself with people who were as. a conse quence, she basked in a sort of re flected glory. People always spoke of Marcia s clever parties." One naturally inferred that Marcia, her self, was clever. There were a few who knew she wasn't. Nigel Stern, for instance, and Marcia herself. Her husband had never even sus pected it. Which proves, perhaps,! that Marcia wasn't so stupid after au. By the time they had passed from fish to entree, Marcia had de e i d e d satisfactorily in her own mind exactly how much Angela Rand had paid for her Vionnet gown, whether Beth Crampton really couldn't have children or just didn t want them, whether or -not Nigel Stern was having an affair with Sandra Frayne. Perhaps that was why Marcia missed so many pportunities to say clever things -she never really put her mind on tny conversation it was always wandering off by itself, quite obliv ious to what her lips were saying. Tonight, having disposed of these fuestions satisfactorily, she turned ser attention to Stanley and Drew a.rmitage. She had known Stanley tor years intimately, she would have said and not been quite sure about it. She rather thought that oo one had ever known Stanley Paige intimately. Even as a school girl there had been a certain aloof ness about her, a shy withdrawal from intimacies. Marcia decided the girl had been too much alone first in a big house with only ser vants for companions, later at 18 SILVERTON. Jan. 31. School enrollment with tho beginning of the second day of the new term sLowed 26 beginners; between 20 and 25 in the senior high schcol and four new entrants in the junior hifiii school. Although the complete check will not have been completed until the end of the week, present indications, accord ing to Robert Goetz, superinten dent, are that the total enrollment will be larger than at any time heretofore. Miss Katherlne Slawson has charge of the beginners but some changes will have to be made as at present she haa too large a group on hand. Miss Caihaleene Cuddy, who returned over the week end -from a visit to Minne sota, Is filling the vacancy left by the death of Esther Moore Neave. Whether or not Miss Cuddy's position will be perman ent for the remainder of the year will be acted upon at the February meeting of the board, which falls on February 7. Contrary to reports about town, contracts for teachers tor next autumn will not be discussed at school board meetings until in April or May. Antrim's Birthday Occasion for Fete DAYTON, Jan. 31. Honor ing George Antrin on his 68th birthday, 14 numbers of his family and four guests enjoyed 25 NEW STUN UiST TERM PILES guaranteed removed without knife or needle. OLD SORES of ankind, STUBBORN SKIN IRRITATIONS, and ATHLETIC FEET, If you bad faUed to heal them by other aaeans, will qiffckl respond under our new method. Our herbal remedies are guaranteed satisfaction for GALLSTONES. u..v...xuiiia, naxnjia, i tLMAllSJl, ailments oi me? utK, BTUMACH, GLANDS and the URINARY SYSTEM of men and women. IS years In business. Licensed ft. D. physicians. DR. CHAN LAM Chinese MetHctoe mercial St Salem. a.m. to 1 p.m. rvA 1 metKMrs and Sarnrdara nnlr. fr If " III "He's certainly gone te nieces this spring. StiU handliftg your affairs. 8tanley?N schools where she had never really lost her shyness, then those years abroad with that impossible per son, her aunt. There had been that one winter in New York, of course. Stanley had been very gay that winter very happy. Marcia though it a pity she had not mar ried Perry Deverest then and es caped those years in Europe. And now she was back again and any. one could see for the looking that she was hopelessly in love with Drew Armitage. And the humor ous part of it was that everyone had been so sure she had come back to marry Perry. And now Perry had gone off north on a fish ing trip and Stanley was seen everywhere with Drew. Well. things happened that way, Marcia supposed, and sighed and looked at Ned at the other end of the table, beyond the glow of the can dies and the spilled gold of the roses, and was glad she had mar ried him and hoped again that he wouldn't ret fat. An hour later Ned Winzate. be ing dummy at the same time that Stanley happened to lay down her hand at the next table, strolled over to her and suggested that they go outside for a cigarette. They went out through French doors onto a narrow balcony. He held a lighter to her cigar ette, sat down beside her on the slender iron railing. There were boxes of petunias on the balcony they moved softly in a gentle breeze. "Seen anything of Charles Carle- ton lately?" he asked, referring to the man who was legally respon sible for Stanley's inheritance. "Not for a week or so he had dinner with me when I first came back. I thought he looked sort of shot" Through the half-onened doors Stanley could see Drew's dark head bent over his cards as usual the heart-twisting line of his profile clutched at her heart, left ner sweetly shaken. "That's what I thoueht saw him at the club this afternoon. He's certainly gone to pieces this spring. Still handling your affairs. Stanley?" "Oh, yes" She brought her a surprise birthday turkey din ner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Thornton an son Leo of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. T. Lawrence and family of Grand Island, beside local members of the family were present Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kirkwood of Wheatland, Mr. and Mrs. Keal Stoutenburg were guests. Mr. Antrim was born at Hope well, January 28, 1866 and his home has always been here with the exception of five years when from 1889 to 1894 he taught school in Idaho. He owns a farm and raises loganberries and wal nuts. Girl Tumbles From Horse but Only One Finger is Injured SUVER, Jan. 31. Fern An drews, while riding, a horse Fri day, was dragged off by a barb wire fence. While she was falling her little finger was caught and the ligaments were torn loose. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dickenson and children ef Toledo, are spending several days at the Henry Lamb home. Mr. Dickenson has Just un dergone a minor operation at the Corvalli8 hospital. Mrs. Mildred Belding visited the past several days at the Welly Kester home near Rickreall. Mrs. Nina De Witt underwent a major operation at the Salem Deaconess hospital Tuesday. DAXCE DRAWS CROWD WHEATLAND, Jan. 31. Good attendance was had at the Wheatland community hall dance Saturday evening. The six - piece local orchestra furnished the mu sic Co JSO Iff. Com Office boars 9:30 8 tun. to 7 n.m. I - l. By ALLENE CORLISS eyes back to Ned, smiled at him absently. "Full power of attorney, I sup pose?" "I suppose so I really dont know much about ft. I'm like father, Ned, I hate business. I don't understand it he didn't either, you know. Charles Carleton always managed everything for him, they were very close friends." "Yes." Ned nodded slowly. "I've heard my dad tell about them. Well, I was rather shocked to see the old boy looking so ragged. Yon don't happen to know what your money's invested in, do you, Stan?" "Oh, the usual thing, I suppose whatever money is invested in on Wall Street," she shrugged lightly. "It's never interested me much." "No," replied Ned. eauallv care. less, "I suppose not. Everything's probably all right, anyhow, but when I saw Carleton looking so sort of shot I rather wondered. They say he's playing the market pretty hard, Stan." Stanley tossed her cigarette Into the darkness; she wondered if Drew had missed her. If he would look np from his table and smile at her when she went back in. If she only imagined it, or if he did have a different expression in his eyes, which was just for her. "I thought men who had offices on Wall Street always played the market hard," she told Ned light ly. "Anyhow, he's made a lot of money for me I can afford to lose some." Ton probably won't. Carleton's pretty shrewd. He's been in the game a long time." "Hey, you two out there " called Johnnie Crampton, "arc you play ing bridge or aren't you?" ihey went in. Drew did look at her and Stanley felt suddenly warm ana Dreamless. She slipped into her chair and failed to raise Nigel's heart bid. They made three extra tricks. They had needed them for game. Stanley hoped Nigel didn't mind too much; Nigel assured her he didn't. (Te Be Continued) CoDTfWht. 19.12. ha AIU. f ,!... Diatributcd bj Kiac Feature, Syndicate. Tm. ' Policz Holder Gets Benefit Check The one dollar invested by Eck Dutoit of route eight, Salem, In one of the accident insurance poli cies issued to Statesman subscrib ers, proved to be a wise invest ment. Mr. Dutoit was injured In an automobile collision October 4 and has been un&ble to work since that date. He received a check for $70 through the Statesman office Wednesday. This check was the final payment of his total claim which amounted to $150. 51st in Size During the past year United States National advanced from 70th to 51st size among1 America's largest banks. This is a tribute to the thrift and prosperity of some 100,000 customers of thia bank and its branches. Deposits here are Insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance plan. D. W. BYRE L. C. SMITH Salem Branch of the United States National Oank of Portland Head Office t PortlandOregon ! Bib foflB By R. J. HENDRICKS Winema, Oregon Pocahontas: Indian History of Modoe War by Jeff C. Riddle, her ' son: - (Continuing from yesterday:) "The evening hours glided by, the strangeness wore off, and by the aid of an interpreter the conver sation became interesting. "Winema sang love songs In the Modoc tongue. Frank told stories of civlUced life. When the Darting came Frank was more than, half in love with the little Winema, and ahe altogether bo with him. m "The visit was repeated, and soon Frank learned enough of the language to understand what Wi nema meant when she sang 'Kam- lsnostlnto' (a Modoc love song.) He trembled when he remember ed his betrothed. He faltered; Ire hesitated. What had been only a possibility in the beginning be came a probability. "Driven on by his growing love for the -Indian maiden, he at length proposed to her, and she accepted, on condition that he would, in conformity with .the usages of her people, give her fa ther a present. Among the Modocs it Is thought to be a disgrace for a woman to live with a man who does not think enough of her to give presents to other people. Frank assented, and, in the pres ence of her cousin and her hus band, the compact was made, and they were married, after the forms of the Modoc Indians. Wi nema collected her personal ef fects, and went home with Frank Riddle, his wife. "The miner's cabin began to change its appearance. Under Frank's tuition, and through the occasional visits to her cousin and the few white women who had come with their husbands to this mountain world, Winema soon put away her squaw dress and habits. She learned to cook ac cording to the model she had be fore, and was not long in attain ing to the distinguished title of 'a first rate housekeeper.' a "When the dry season had come, Frank and Winema visited her people. Secot had been dis satisfied at the marriage, and was not appeased by the half dozen horses Frank had sent him as a marriage present; but when he found Frank to be a good shot, apt at story telling, and strictly temperate, he manifested his ap probation of the marriage by re turning the horses and adding to the band from his own herd. S "As the summer months wore by, Frank won not only the heart of the father, but of the whole tribe. He went with them on fish ing and hunting excursions, and, being a brave man in times of danger, and a splendid shot, with either pistol or rifle, he soon took rank as a brave. "It was during this visit that one of those stranger than fiction affairs transpired. Uleta had felt grieved at the loss of Winema. and gave signs of aberration of mind, which disappointed love so often produces in life, for the In dian is human, with all of human ity's attributes and weaknesses. He had not, however, manifested his insanity to such an extent that his people should keep watch of him; he was permitted to go upon the hunting and fishing journeys. He was observed to be alone much of the time, and seemed especially depressed in the presence of Frank and Winema. Nothing passed before the -eyes of the tribe to create suspicion that he meditated barm to either Winema or Frank: but Winema for some reason suspected him, and when the band went into the Cascade mountains on the annual bear hunt, at huckleberry time, he was of the party, as were Frank and Winema. S V "They had been in the moun- Chest Colds mS .... Best treated without "dosing" visas .Manager .-Asst. Manager tains several days, and Uleta had not 'shown a spirit of dislike, bat nevertheless Winema kept her eyes on him, lest he should Injure her husband. She discovered that he would wait in camp until Frank had left for the day's hunt, and then start In an opposite di rection. "This was to her sufficient rea son for following him, which ahe did on one occasion, and found, as she suspected, that he changed his course to that taken by Frank. As he crept slyly along the trail of the white hunter, Winema kept in sight of him, and discovered that he was more intent on strik ing her husband's trail than in raising the griszly bear, - "Late in the day the report of a rifle was heard in the distance. Uleta quickened his steps, and Winema kept on his trail. Sud denly she stopped, and, raising her gun for she is a good shot fired apparently at some ob ject. It was not at a deer or bear, nor at her disappointed lover, but simply to give him knowledge of her presence. He turned at the sound of the rifle, and precipi tately fled in another direction He had been detected in drawing bis gun on Frank Riddle. "He left the camp,, returned to the Tillage on Link river. Here he wandered about several days, and at last threw himself from a canoe at the outlet of the lake and was downed. His body was afterward found on the shores of Lower Klamath lake. Another circumstance occur red during this hunt that demon strated the courage and sagacity of this remarkable woman. Her husband, being ambitious to ex cel in hunting, was reckless in his encounters with the griizly. He raised a young cub, and, thinking to capture it, dropped his rifle and ran after it. The cub made good his' escape by climbing a tree. Frank, unwilling to. be out witted, beran throwing stones. Very soon the cub raised the cry, much to Frank's encouragement. He plied the stones: the cub cried again. Frank had thrown with good aim, and had evidently wounded the cub, which gave signs of letting go the limb. Just at. this moment his fun was interrupted by a sound which put life into his limbs, such as he had not felt since his boyhood. 'Wah, wah! came to him from the breaking bushes. He knew well what it meant. and lost no time in putting in his very best Kentucky Jump3 down SCENE: Anxious motorist consults garage expertg Dat e Ogden: "Fix her up so she won't KNOCK." 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Away went Frank and on canre the she bear As he now describes the race, 'it was nip and tuck 'twixt me and the bear, with the latter closing up the space at a fearful rate, con sidering the stakes they were run ning for. -Every muscle of the man was going duty, while Mrs. Bear was paying; out energy in quantity promising to be extreme ly unhealthy to the hunter. Frank - shouted with every jamp, the bear wah, wahed' at every bound. Frank thought his 'time had come and was almost in despair of ever - seeing his brown skinned wife again, when, suddenly, as if she had dropped from the clouds, she sprang be tween the racers, and, spreading her skirts, shouted in Modoc so loudly that the mother bear sud denly halted, and turned about, making way to ,her cub. "The breathless Frank crept cautiously to where he had drop ped his gnn, covered at each step by the little rifle in Winema's hands. 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