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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem; Oregon; Sunday Bfornlng, February 18, 1334 II By ALLENE oman corliss Crystal-Gazing Again PACE Fomt ". Take This W Wa Favor Sway 9 Us; No. Fear Shall Awe' From Firrtfctatesman. March 23, 1851 -THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CB4KLES X. SntACCC - - - - Editor-Manager SHTLDOlf P. Sacxett - - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press Tha Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the uss for publica tion ef all news dispatches credited te It or not otherwise credited la this paper. ' ADVERTISING Portland Representative Gordon B. Bell, Security Bunding, Portland, Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives . Bryant Qrtrtith Brunaon, Inc. Chicaso. New Tork, Detroit, Boston. Atlanta Entered ct the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-CUut Matter, Published every morning except Monday. Burinese ' ffice, ttS S. Commercial Strett, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: If an Subscription Bates, In Advance. Within Oregon : Dally and Sunday, . I Ms. cents; I Mo ll.Ii; Mo, 12.25; 1 year 14.60. I Elsewhere M cents per Mo., or $M0 for 1 rear In advance. By City Carrier: 4S certs S month: $5.09 a year In advance. Per Copy t cents. Oa trains and Newa Stands S cents. Home Building Deficient 'A WRITER in American Builder" estimates there is an J. accumulated deficiency of 13 billion dollars in home building and repairs. As one for a considerable chunk of that sum to be spent in iresn paint to preserve as well as beautify. Other repairs are per haps as urgently needed, unless feit under a drip very long. They will fix the leak, or move out. Perhaps that accounts for the many new roofs which one sees, especially in the country. The farmers have been doing a lot of shingling while material prices were low. During the middle 20's there was an accumulated sur plus of housing, but that has been more than extinguished in the almost complete stoppage of building since 1930. It is now estimated that 800,000 homes a year are needed for adequate A m . s . m boosing. Since city apartments are sun overDuntmost oi tne construction will probably be in detached houses. People have gotten along by doubling np. When people lost their jobs they moved in with relatives, sharing expense or at least sharing shelter. Meantime the population has in creased; couples have been married; new living quarters are required. So revival of building, it would seem, cannot be much longer delayed. Nowa great handicap is means of financing, but homes in a way finance themselves when the necessity comes. . In the decade of the 1920s the average number of fami lies provided for in new residential units in 257 cities was 231,600. ".This declined to 27,381 in 1932 and 26,800 in 1933. But more people are living today than five years ago, and the process of doubling up cannot continue indefinitely. - Building is one of the great gauges of prosperity. Its rise and fall mark the tides of business. When building revives it will not only indicate the end of the depression but will of it self generate the business volume which marks the return of prosperity. A measure of "prosperity is the cubic footage of housing provided per capita. As wealth increases people crave more spacious homes, and better furnished living quarters. They may have a town house and a country house. With depression this consumption of house space decreases. As fast as in comes are restored now, just so will the money be spent in providing more attractive and more comfortable homes. The consequence of a building revival, especially of small homes, on the lumber industry is easily understood. Oregon as. one of the greatest lumber manufacturing states will feel this quickening pulse of business almost immediately. The lumber "demand so far has not been very heavy this spring. Perhaps the code prices were raised too abruptly. But it does seem certain thatbuilding will come, and that its needs will call for vast quantities of Oregon's pine and fir and hemlock lumber. Our working plant is here, all ready to turn out the quantities of lumber which increased home construction will need. Caution Signal THE strengthening in the price of municipal bonds puts the city in a more advantageous position in its moves to ac quire the water plant. But since the dickerings with the PWA are attended by so many delays and so much bickering it seems to us the. thing to do is to proceed steadily with con demnation suit. $950,t00 is too much to pay for the property now, especially if the money is to come from city bonds sold at s shorn f i aAiinf Tna AAnWAmn ofiAn rmf wmll --. fAWiAita i and costly; we are feeling safe in saying that the saving will I be so great that the city will be more than compensated. I Meantime the price of our bonds should go up nearer to par, so the city would benefit at both ends of the deal. Once having acquired the plant the city is in position to talk with PWA on a very definite basis; and could close up a " 1 . 11 1 at i a i loan very promptly, or as promptly as xne state nas ior its five coast bridges. So far as PWA running out of money, that does not seem in immediate prospect. For self -liquidating projects we look to see the government in the loan busi nss for a long time to come. It may be that all banking will shift over to federal auspices at least for long term credit. v Tlfr allinr rrfn?a iVia rnv ciiM frof 4-Via 'nrica fWaA - 'V WVH.Mft W.. -- U11VU1U fc " UW A 1AVU by court action. There is nothing in the present situation which justifies rushing in to sell. bonds at a sharp discount ' in order to pay the water company an excessive price for the 'property. - The council must realize that success of the enterprise dependVon keeping the capital investment at as low a figure as possioie. inis is particularly true oi a gravity now pro ' ject with its expensive pipe line. Excessive investment at the "beginning mean3 higher water rates or special tax levies to ! pay off the bonds. We ought not to start off with paying too 'much for the plant and getting too little for our bonds. -, v; . The modern involution doesn't seem .to come from street riot- fng smelt at has prevailed in Paris " the aide ot the government which their modern equipment of machine runs, artillery, airplanes, and T tanks. The technique of revolution will have to change to "boring - fr.ni within ft tH.av V fnKa ' of the soldiers which overtarned the established government. This : situation is rather old too, because Roman emperors finally became . creations of the praetorian guard. But the experience in Paris and : Vienna should tame those Impetuous bomb-throwers who think they . can start a revelation by a street , - The railroads hare filed a petition seeking a 15 cut In wages paid employes. This ts aot aa additional 1S over the 10 now ' being deducted from pay checks ot employes, bat 15 from the . scale which prevailed in 19X9. The petition may be set down as a gesture: The roads do not expect any farther wage redaction but , hope to continue the present 10 cat; and the petition Is jast part : of their strategy. The president has Jumped into the 'matter and sked a continuance of present wages for another six months' period - ana inai is prooahiy waat botn aiaes win agree to. Once again The Statesman gets the new which other morning papers coming into the city miss. Salem editions of Portland papers : failed to carry the stories of the crashes of army planes drafted into air mau service, with two deaths in Utah and one In Idaho. The States man keeps its forms open until 2:15 a. m. getting the very latest news. Portland papers must fgo to bed scriDers. this time gap gives the covering tate news.- j ' Klamath Falls is supnlyintf the tery. About all that is kmow is that they have the "corpus delicti and the man who applied the "delicti to the corpus. This ought to , give data for the ranging imaginations et writers ot detective stories. , Klamath saw right, away this wasnt an ordinary reservation knilnr . and hired a great criminologist to ensed's lawyers claim their client tae perieci crime nas oeen penormea titer au. looks about he can see need it be roofs. People will not recently.The odds now are an on controls the army and police with aa tm Pnirl. If waa riot. by 11 to serve their country sub- local paper a great advantage in state with a class A study the case. Meantime the ac- has a perfect defense; so perhaps Eight O'Clock is Just That; Still Its Earlier to Some Than Others By D. H. Talmadge, Sage-of Salem Do you remember the joy ot sending a comic valentine -to the man who was howling mad when he received it, and the disappoint ment you felt when the man who received it only laughed good naturedly? There seems to be a mean streak in most of us. Our heartiest laughter is caused by the discom fiture, frequently painful, of our fellows. Not greatly to our credit, if you ask me. But like the sweet potato and the distinguished Popeye 1 we am as we yam, and goodness knows we might be a heap worse. GId Galllcker, who lived at Tur key River, was one man in a thou sand (figures estimated) and his funeral was the most largely at tended of eny in local history, which is significant, although he never amounted to much hi a busi ness way. Most of the town jokes were perpetrated on him, and he always made believe the jokes made him mad as a hornet. But as a matter of fact he only pre tended to be mad and got a heap of pleasure from the jokes. I al ways figured Gid was a sort of public benefactor. We see people who are involved in certain circumstances as we feel we should be if similarly in volved, and more frequently than not we see Incorrectly. There Is a story of an Illinois merchant who considered himself rather a super ior person. This merchant, having refused Ulysses S. Grant credit for a small bill of groceries on a cer tain occasion, stated to the group about the store stove that Grant was no good. "I pity the poor devil," said the merchant piously. He was quite unable to see Grant as Grant really was. We do not seem to know one another very welL Nor do we seem to know ourselves very wel Life Is pretty well shot through with over - estimates and under - esti mates. Small talk: Eight o'clock Is eight o'clock, but it is a heap ear lier to some folka than it is to others ... A coonskin overcoat jras seen on State street a sunny day or two ago, and it appeared to be making things w ana-for all there was in it . . . The high-point The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers CORRECTION Amity, Oregon. To tha Editor: In regard to aa article which appeared in your paper which said in part,' "At a meeting of the lo cal unit of the Amity district of the Dairy Cooperative, Max Gehl har's stand on the butter- code was indorsed by the members.' This is not true. A vote was not taken at all and If there had been a vote takes I think we would not have been back ot Gehlhar, Please correct this In your pa per. . Also" wish to correct another item which appeared in your pa per some time ago. This was a report of the meeting of the lo cal Farmers' union (Amity) that we went on record aa being in favor of sales tax. Now the min utes of the meeting will show that we roted against the sales tax. Kindly correct this. I MAHLOK WILLIAMS, President of County Local Farmers Union. D. H. TALMADGE editorial of the week from this viewpoint Mr. Sprague'a tribute to Era LeGallienne in tho Sunday Statesman . . . Salem liked "Car olina," the Fox film in which Janet Gaynor, as a girl from the nawth, saves an ol' plantation in Sonth Carolina from the deadly blight of southern pride. The fea ture has been shown to excellent business at the Grand during the week. A capable cast, Lionel Bar- rymore outstanding . . . Many a young' man has attained a high place without work and in a short space of time, but he didn't stay . 'Well," says a feller to me the other day, heaving a sigh, "It appears like we're going to have Borne more of that dam' sunshine" . . . Of course it is not murder to nag a person to death, but I have known of aome instances in which it seemed almost like it . ... It is said in these parts that a man has Bits For Breakfast By R, J. HENDRICKS- The terrible story ot the Whitman massacre: m (Continuing from yesterday: ) "We could find but little and did not linger long. Hanging by the window was a smaU bag with my childish keepsakes in it. When we came from under the floor, I started to get" this and stumbled over a small tin cup. I asked mo ther if I could take this and hav ing her consent placed It in my little reticule. Later fAther split a stick and fastened It to the cup so that we were able to get water from the river while he was gone to the fort tor aid. "Francis Sager lay at our door. I stooped and placed my hand on his forehead. It was cold In death. There was only star light to guide us and as we came out of the house we turned to the west, went down through the field and cross ed the Walla Walla river near the month of Mill creek. Father made three trips to carry us across, first taking my two brothers, then my self and lastly .mother. We. then secreted ourselves the best we could in the bushes. "When daylight came we found that. we were near a trail and could hear the Indians pass and repass, laughing and talking as they carried the plunder from the doctor's house. Our thought was to go to Fort Walla Walla on the Columbia river, near what is now known as Wallula, . which was about 30 miles distant. "gone native" when he eats buck wheat cakes all the year round . . . I am told that quilts are ia fashion again. Perhaps because It is becoming customary again for folks to go to bed . . . Bill Gahls dorf, the younger, went to the coast Sunday. Bill is like Byron and Stevenson and a lot of other guys he loves the sea. Says the weather was like June over there ... It is stated on the authority of a Salem woman, who should be a competent judge of -such mat ters, that the Undo Bob Connolly role in "Carolina" is the best piece of work Lionel Barrymore has ever done. I am disposed to agree with her. But I dunno the state ment takes in considerable terri tory . . . When we any of us pronounce anything the "best" we mean we like it that much, and that is really all we do mean . . . Al Adolph, who was 'compelled by 111 health to give up his place on the managerial staff of the War ner Bros. Salem theatres, has been in town during the week. He is 50 pounds heavier than when he went to the sanltorlum. We were all glad to see him . . . There has been but one Chaplin in the movies and I more than half -suspect there is but one Stanley Lau rel,. A delightful contrast to the average run of movie comedians . . . We must be pretty well ac quainted with folks before we can truthfully say that we know them. When one man speaks ot a dirty shirt the shirt he mentions may be much dirtier than the dirty shirt another man mentions . . . Frequently a word holds a differ ent meaning for you than It holds for the person who fires it at you. This fact is of considerable im portance to folks who .make a hobby of collecting insults . . . Seems odd. does it not? Richard K. Fox's old Police Gazette, which was banned because respectable folks thought it immoral, came to its end because respectable folks thought it too tame to be interest ing . . . Janet Gaynor was born in Philadelphia in 190C . . . Exclu sive of hundreds killed and in jured in Austria and Paris, Tues day morning's first page carried news of 13 violent deaths, most ot them in Washington and Ore gon. Ben Tnnk says he thinks a nice peaceful war would be a relief. "Tuesday night we were able to get but a short distance before mother gave out. When she could no longer stand, she tried to per suade father to leave us and so to the tort and try to get help. At first he would not. He said, I can not leave you, but I can die with you. Mother waited until he be came more calm and then pleaded duty. How often that word has helped a faint and faltering heart! "When darkness came again and all had lifted their hearts to God in prayer, for they were pray ing people, he made ready to go. They knew that he could take but one ot ua with hiin. Which would it be? Finally he took my little brother, John, who was skk and weak, hoping to leave him at the fort to be sent to our friends in case the rest of us should be lost. Such a parting aa that was! I hope I shall never witness the like again. How we listened to his footsteps as he slipped away in the darkness! Just think of that Ione man carrying a sick child nearly 4 years old, and he had never been over the way but once. He was nearly drowned while at tempting to cross the Walla Wal la river, but managed to get out on the same side that he went in and continuing on finally crossed near Wallula and arrived at the tort just before daybreak. He was put in a room where there was nothing but a fire and given a cup ot tea and a tew scrap to eat. He asked tor help to get us in, tent airfceantifsl Stanley Paige loses her fortune through market specalatlsa bat harder blew ceases wkea bar flaaee. the fasdnatiar. Irresponsible Drew Armltage, tells her It wsuM be madness te marry on Us Income snd lesTes tewn. Penniless sad broken-hearted. Stanley refuses to seek aid f rem her wealthy friends. Desiring te make her ewa way, Stanley drops eat ef her exclusive circle and rents a chesp furnished reem. After a week ef leneHaess and trying te adapt herself te her peer surroundings, Stanley calls en Nigel Stem, one ef her society friends, and asks his aid in secur ing a position. Nigel urges her te marry the handsome aftd wealthy young lawyer. Perry Deverest, who has leved her devotedly for yeara, but Stanley's heart Is with Drew. Nigel suggests that she think it ever, and then. If she still wants a position, he will try te place her. Stanley does net ge back te Nigel, realising it would mean meeting afl her eld friends. One day, when Stanley is more lonely than usual, she meets Johtf Harmon Northrsp, a struggliar young anther, and is touched by his sincerity. Stanley t nally procures a position and grows curiously content. Them. tee. hav ing Jeha Harmon waiting for her at the end ef the day. helped make ftktnra brighter. Ha had a wav ef making life seem gsy and friendly. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO And to John Harmon life had be come. Indeed, just that. He had come down from Vermont, a too thin young man, shy. awkward, in tense; with a too great love for words and a half-realized fear of people. As a Utile boy life had hurt him badly. There were certain thtnrs that he could never remem ber about his childhood . without feeling a little sick. The winter he had had to wear a girl's coat to school. The coat had belonged to a cousin and was a good coat; but It had a fur collar and big pearl but tons. He had been nine, a fine-fea tured, horribly sensitive child. One night he had taken the coat and rolled it into a tight bundle and rone down to the river behind the house and" pushed it through a hole in the ice. The next morning his father had punished him fearfully but he had bought him a coat. Then there was the summer that woman had lived at the house. His mother had been dead three years then. And this woman had come and John Harmon had been glad at first be cause he no longer had to wash dishes and she cooked food that was good. Then one day he had come home unexpectedly and had found her in his father's room going through his mother's things. For a moment he was like a person gone suddenly mad, and so he had. He had flung himself on her and scratched her face and sunk his nails into the soft flesh of her neck, and all the time he had been sob bing and his eyes had been quite blinded by tears. The woman had left after that, and his father had been better to him. Not exactly kind, but more indifferent. His Aunt Martha came to live with them and in her own way had been good to him. But it hadn't been a happy childhood. Except for his writing. John Har mon had always had that. He had hugged it to his heart and when everything else had seemed to fail him he had always had that. It had taken the place ot the mother he had never had, the father he had never loved and the girls he had always been afraid of. They had and was told that his wife would surely be dead, and that he had better not try to get us children. He replied to McBain (Wm. Mc Bain, in charge, of the Hudson's Bay- company's fort) that he would save us or die in the at tempt. Fortunately for us, an Am erican artist by the name ot Stan ley (note Tuesday's Issue), who was out painting and sketching for some company in New Tork and had been out in the Colville country where Rev. Eels and Rev. Walker had their mission station, came to the fort the same day father got there. He offered his horses and what little provisions he had left and made the sick child as comfortable as he could, for they would not keep him at the fort. "A Walla Walla Indian was se cured as a guide and they came back to us. He had left us in the dark and was net familiar with the locality, iff of course it was difficult tor him to locate us when us m PS m hBErii S W "! - A JS-aa - X I r- mm. : . I A 21 I . XtSi i ii. i I T xr VI! They were never sdf-censdleua, but always intensely interested in each been so hard and. bright and noisy those aixls who had sat beside bim ia high school and stood talking In groups on snowy stress corners and waved te bim in the summer from ipeeding automobiles. They had de manded so many things that he dldnt have money, and -Urns, and a careless. dUppaat attitude toward Ufa and lore. Especially toward love. John Harmon couldn't be careless about lore, or flippant. couldn't be anythinr about it, in fact; except afraid of ft. Afraid of it aa all sensitive, imaginative peo ple are afraid of things they do not understand, hare never encountered. But -if John Harmon was afraid of love, it was with an exalted fear. In his own- way he felt that there must be, that anyhow there should be. something fine and lovely sad a little sacred about love. He couldn't be careless about it he couldn't be flippant. 6o he had kept away from it. And then he had come to New Tork, and one night he had sat on, a bench in a little park and had spoken to a girL That night had1 been the beginning of a new life for John Harmon. Something had. happened to him then and in the ays that immediately followed that made a definite break in his life. From then on he always thought of the past in terms of "before that night" and 'since that night." And he thought less and less of "before" and more and more of "since" and his eyes lost their fear and became confident and his mouth lost its tenseness and learned to smile frequently and with a com pelling sweetness. And to Stanley both the smile and John Harmon had become very important. In world which had gone suddenly meaningless and chaotic he was the one thing she was sure of the one thing that made each day different from the one before, different and a little de lightful. No matter how hot it was, nor how late she was, he was always there waiting for her, at the cor ner of her street or on the steps of the old brownstone house; his hair damp and little curly from the heat but his eyes gaily oblivious to he returned. Finally he called my mother and when she answered the Indian jumped from his horse and came to us. He had his hand in his blanket and we thought he would kill us but he raised his hand and said 'Hia klatawa,' meaning 'Hurry and go. Then we knew that he was of the Walla Walla tribe and not a Cayuse In dian, for they did not use the jar gon. Father said, My God, Mar garet, are you still alive?' and fell across us. Such a meeting as that was.! "It was now getting light and we were soon on our way. We started and soon came to what ia now known as Mud creek. The banks were steep and we had to unsaddle the horses to get them across. The Indian bent willows down to form a sort ot ladder and carried all the things and us chil dren across on it "While he was saddling the horses we saw a Cayuse Indian lanionea, neionDony, inendhness 4& moaerase mciencv ziSfcm otters eniaiens. anything except the fact that they were once mors looking at her. 1 1 did .some swell work last night," he would tell her, hurrying te meet her, thrusting his arm through her slim one. "Wrote forty psges of darn good stuff watt till you bear itt" He was working days on short stories but his nights were dedi cated to his novel. He had sold an other story to Maynard, editor of the Review, and was getting en couraging letters from other edi- , tors. i "It's only "a question of time, Stan," he would tell her earnestly, wrinkling his forehead into a sol emn scowl, matching his long strjde to her briefer one. "They like my stuff. They say it's good, but not quite good enough. But it will be, you wait and see. I'm getting better all the time the stuff I did last night was smooth as silk." He was not always like this, of course. There were nights, a good many of them, when he smiled a bit grimly and tried "hard to act casually indifferent. Those were the days when things had not gone so well with him; when what he wrote went suddenly wooden and he tore it up and thrust it into an already foil wastebasket. But whatever his mood he was always ridiculously glad to see her, to talk to her. He worried about ber and told her so; took her to eat at much more expensive places than he could afford so that she might have better food in a cooler atmosphere. He bought her flowers because she loved them and had never been without them; and San days he went with her out of the city and kept her away the entire day. They found much to talk about on these days, lying on their backs in the warm sun, their arms flung upward to shield their young eyes, their voices eager, now fast and enthusiastic, now alow and lazily relaxed, as their mood might be. They were never self-conscious, but always intensely interested ia each other's opinions. CTe Be Centiaued) Cop-risat. til2. by AUene Certnrt Distributed by Kiaf Feature Syndicate, lae. about half a mile away on a little knell. Soon he came to us with hand on his gun and told our guide, who was unarmed, to be still while he killed that white man. The Walla Walla Indian shamed him out ot this by telling him that it would not be a brave act ta kill a sick man who had his sick family with him. S S "The Cayuse replied that he had never killed a white man and was not anxious to do so and would let him go, for the rest of the Cayuses would soon get him anyway. Father had heard that if an Indian accepted tobacco from anyone he would not injure him, so he offered this warrior a piece of tobacco. With a laugh the sav age accepted It and placed it in his bosom, and, turning, rode off toward Waiilatpu. "We passed out near some ledges, and as our orders were to go to the Umatilla near (Turn to Page S) . r, MM f KM LJCSMM - F" Serving Salem and Vicinity Since 1878 Clough-Barrick Co. FUNERAL SERVICE L. E. Barrick Virgil .T. Golden