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The OnTGDN gTATHSIAI?, Safest, h-e;ron, 7ednesJay ilornia April X, 1953 f--r . .ef'V . 3 Free List Suspended Finger Cu Dial rse u Tor person "The Cold -A'o Fatror Stcajf Us; No Fear Shalt Awe" - - From ftnt Statesman. Marca 21. 1S5X THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CaiKixa A. St&acuc - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon P. Saca-hr - - - - - Mlvnafins-Editor Member of tk Atsocmced Press Th Asaoctated fntt U exclunirelj entitled l tbm esa for pnM!c tloa At rn.il new dtepatctoa credited to It or am sttenrtn credited M ' ' - . T ADVERTISING Portland Representative . . Gordon B. Bell. Security Building. I"onlaot. Ore. a ... Eastern AdrertLsing RepresentatiTes . Bryant. Ortftttn Untnwn, ln, Cktvia Nw York. Detroit. Boston. Atbtnta EuUrrd at th V otto ff tern at Satem, Ortgvm, at Sscsmd-Class Matter, tukiisked steiy morning except Monday. Business ffte, t!S S. Commercial Street. ' ... SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Mall SutjscripUua Uatrs, In Advance. Within Oroco Dally and Sunday. 1 Ma w cents. S Ua $1.2 ; Mu. $3.25: t rear . Elae-wuvre- e rrnia j.er Mo., or $i.0S for 1 year hi advance. I'er Copy; 3 cent News Stan da S cent. - By CKjr CarrWr 43 cents a month; I&.M a year in advance. Not All are Crooks fjpHE crumpling of values during the depression years J. showed the cloven hoof in many men of large affairs, bus iness men, financiers, utility promoters, and others. The public attention has been focused so much on, the misdeeds of the high-stationed men of business that the men who have proven true to their trust of ten get no consideration at all. The troth is that many men used their private fortunes to protect the interests of' those who had trusted them. An illustration of this is found in the statement of a Chicago investment firm, Greenebaum & Sons, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. In a statement re viewing its record the firm says that in that period it made more than 60,000 real estate loans on ajl classes of property, and for 75 "years not one investor in their securities suffered a loss. After the disastrous slump which began in 1929, the concern experienced many defaults. To quote the words of M. E. Greenebaum, of the second'generation, the president who recently died : "For yean thoasaads of Investors had placed their trust In. ob and their interests necessitated the continuance ot the bus inesa yet the company4 resource fell far short of the de xaaads Cor faade caused toy the economic chaos. Without any legal - obligation oa as -personally, my brother, James, and 1 felt a moral obligation to save the good name which oar father and onrseWea - had labored for 75 years to build. We met it by pouring 15. 09, ' 600 into the company oar personal fortanea all we possess ed all we could borrow. This money enabled the business to continue and thus aid oar in res tors during this trying period. The Ideals of oar father, Ellas Greenebaum, founder of our bus iness, prompted as to give everything to protect the company's good name, to carry -on and serve the bondholders.'' One of the third generation is president now, and de voting his energies to salvaging as much as possible for the security-holders, with the object of retaining their confidence and continuing the business.- In a period when the moral defaults were quite as num erous and fully as collossal as the financial defaults, it acta a3 a restorative of faith to find some individuals and business firms which put a good name above great riches. 'rice o f THE air clipper ship of the Pan American Airways has successfully completed a round trip flight from the con tinent to Hawaii. The flight was made in record time, about 18 hours from land to land. The flight seems a very simple thing now. The route has been pioneered before, though nev er previously by commercial ships such as this one is. Back of the successful flight, back of this auspicious launching of regular commercial air routes, lie over two dec Aries of enwrfrnent nnrl nf trial smrl tfarrfflavt Tt ia not mrnTv the overseas flying attended with great peril, where many on tins' California-Hawaii flight have sank to watery graves-; it is also the years of flight trials with ships of different types, of "stunting" at air circuses, of distance and endurance contestswhich have made possible the success which now Seems so simplex ' J Becall the early days of aviation. A few daring indi viduals learned to fly. They picked up "crates" and went around from city to city putting on exhibition flights, tak ing up a. few intrepid passengers. Scores of these fliers fell to their death. In fact that fate seemed xrertain for those who persisted m fbing, and especially for those who engaged in stunning. But these testa of men and of equipment afforded the experience on which commercial aviation now rests. And by commercial the word "money-making is. not meajit so much as serviee: service in quick transport of persons, of the mails, of express; quick communication between cities and "foreign countries; quick communication in raw coun tries which lack hi crrwa vs jmr! -railmaffa The clipper ship takes off neatly from Alameda and. ar rives on schedule at Honolulu. It repeats the performance in the pposjte directron. Continued, as is the rpectation, it vnH -become somewhat ccsmmonplace, fflce the flight of the Bremerton air ferry from Seattle, or the departure of an oceaa liner. But into thoat? flights acre woven the toil and the daring and the axxifio&ijZ ixrrnareda and temdreds of people. It ia -quite impossible to TOeaMme in human effort and sacrifice the rpriee vf success on this California-Hawaii air flijrkt. . Make the Investigation TO a special council committee wm referred the question of whether or not to authorize an investigation of charges preferred against Fire Chief Hutton. When a public official is under Ere,tand the criticisms are important an investigation-becomes inoperative Such an hrvestigatioTi is required to satisfy the public as to the official nnder fire and should be: welcomed iry the official -himself as giving him an oppor. tunlty to meet the charges. V;,-Wlule;the-:preseBt contention over the fire chief has some of the aspects of a family quarrel, it is too important s rnatter just to beimshed. up or passed ever or ignored. The complaints are of long standing. If now they are covered up by smart politics they-maygrow more vocal as time passes. t The committee is fully justified, in view of the nature ana extent of -the crrticism to recommend a full and fair in quirjr either by thercounca itself or by the civil service conv mission, which are the only bodies with legal standing. . A fresh Attaak oatta4e- eaaeaae tor aatomobUea mad teleahonea it ketaclnMBei.. Itat avary In I a Lua -aataeattva aava to axaka this drlaat perfediealryf also oae ca the fight MIL- For that natter every fcoesiaolder Is making the same attack every thirty days. Just after th bm cotna In. The taa will pvobaMr Jut aa sarrnanfal as the STersge Uad ia catting dawn his expenses for lights, gas and telephone. r '- Tavide and conquer Is the old role atea seems to be working la favor ot the opponent t iaunediato aayment ot tha bonaa. Tha ? ad TtaB b0U flrat divided the bonaa advocate. Then Sea. Harrison cornea la with a compromise which Mff"ea neither ot thether group. Maybe the .strategy la to 'km off th honns tor thin CnieX Bndgeteer O. Hood suggest better use of the state f ansa to provide subsistence for the inmate of state tnstitations, and proposes asking the state college to conduct a survey, etc That runy JM all right; hat doat, make the eoUege profs, the faro, man agers. Their success la apple and near orchards and poaltry farming ha not been, very eonsptemom at Corvallia. - . r ' The mayor ot Sprlagfiell fired aia policeman Saturday night and Sunday night ten hate were stolen front the Christina church, Kow the hatters burghers are talking about recalling the mayor S uccess I fin 'S' ! r Wo PROFITS OM Is JJ 1 jj J WAR MATERIALS J I f I : ep iimTIPi im7 Maaaaaaa'i mmt aaaaa inaaaai iar Health By Koyal S. Copelaad, MJ). MORE THAN a thousand children with harelip ar bora each year. No on knows -the actual reason for this defect. Many ar ef th opinion that harelip Is doe to aam mater nal Impression during the pe riod tha child U! carried, bat there ia no evi dence to support; this theory. alany women fear that their children win be barn wttn this defect. Hardly a week passes that I do not1 receive a letter asking wbetber Vt. Ceseiamd there Is any j truth m tha statement that harelip Is hereditary. Let me assure yo-i that there la no reason to believe tbe defect occurs ts fannUes and can be hTwW down from mother to child. PVeeeat at Birth Harelip ts a congenital defect. By this ht meant the abnormality is preaect at birth. It Is caused by a failure of proper fusion of the palate la th development of the child. Tbe defect may be very hsht ar decidedly marked. It may be con fined to the Up or th soft palate, or there may be a aid gap la the hard palate alma. Bat bareHp ts osaaBy associated arith deft palate. Children bora with this defect can now be assured of complete recovery. This has been made passible by th improved teehnion and akm ia th operation Cor the correction ef this deformity. Let. me acsare yoq that la th hands of a competent anr geoa this operation aeed not be Beared. Tbe reeutta are mora, than -retffyinc Usually tt is difficult to eweset Am mot ef th eaaratam. daft paavte aad harefip.eaaealy he cored by surgery end It J heat to have this eaesatkm perf erased aaaooa as pea. afble. -May . Retard Growth la many instances the aiSkted chad ts aaxbla t -take -proper Boor Whmant and peeper growth and de velopment are retarded IT the defect at not overcome. To .prevent lose of -weteht aad atxengta th chBd meat be fed thrangh kmar nipple, medt dne drpppers or feeding robes. .If tha chad' at of neraaal weight and in fairrjr good health do not de lay th opeaatien. Tha exact time foe peralioa should be determined by The wrfwm. Be wm take into coasUeeatloB th age aad health ef the ehOd aa well a the l extent of th defect.' If": he may resort to a amthm. By this ts meant that.the defect J corrected ia two operation. Thai at often the beat war to. or.' ceed. Aaswar aa Health Qaarle &arx Q. Uy father Is always tired aad sleepy. Um . Acorn after Would this be do to aceapariea keep aha Indoors most tha time. AWMe evercaxtaa aad back of proper eaards woatd b factors, roar father troabl hi probahly da to aatav4atadcatleaL - Ha- aboold make aar that hla sj ilmii Is dear, ror farther pertiaihua eend araett eat year i fCoyyrlffkl, 33, X. T. , IscJ , rfwnw wJ&.-?-4m .111111. I Petitions are being eircelated fa tbe second Judicial district oa behalf of Judge George T. Sktpwarth of Eugene for appointment- to the position of federal district Judge, ft the office) la created aa la anticipated. Jadge Skipwerta la a very capable Jmdge and a deaao crat; and aia appointment would be highly regarded by tbe public and tbe legal professioa. H , Astoria Hah packers aad fisherman bare avoided tbe mutton head ednea which has provea costly to both, ia recent years. This year .they were able to agree oav a price for aalmoa before the season starts, so both will bare full time for working- while the fish ere running. Bits For Breakfast By EL J. HENDRICKS j Address at dedication of tablet to tbe Dorion woman: U S To complete the record of the event, the writer ia naked to print his addre&s of Sunday, April 7, 125. when the United States Daaghtera ot 1812 for the state of Oregon dedicated their tablet to Marie Dorion at the St. Louis (Oregon) church. In which she was burled on September C, 1850. Complying with the request, this la done, taking three issues, to day's, tomorrow's and Friday's, beginning: . t "A people that take no pride In the noble achievements ot re mote ancestors will never achieve any thing worthy to be remember ed with pride by remote descend ants' So wrote llacaulay. "It la appropriate that we here assemble to pridefullr honor the fortitude and faithful devotion of the Sacagawea of the Astor over landers, who overcame greater handicaps aad suffered far more hardships than that sister guide and heroine ot her race, the bird woman with the Lewis and Clark anabasis of the western world. Defenbach visualized Gen. Wil liam Clark and Wilson Price Hunt, as they sat over their wine aad pipes at St Louis (Missouri) In later years, musing: "Curious, is it not, that each of us had a woman in his party?" It is peculiarly appropriate that the United States Daughters of 1812 sponsor this project They stand for perpetuating memorials of the brave deeds of the conflict that frustrated the highest hopes of the men In the Astor enter prise, which was distinctly Ameri can as opposed to British plan, outlook, interest and ambition. The Lewis and Clark party left two (perhaps three) men who he- came early settlers here. The As- torians left an, besides the Dor ton woman and her son. Joseph Gervais, faithful neighbor and -helper of Jason Lee, was one his bouse was the -place of the first school in present Oregon aad ot the "volt" meeting; its location still known to a few but yet un marked. Capt Tom McKay was oae, among tha most able, true aad brave men who stood for Jus tice between the two races the blood of which coursed la hla veins. One of the Astorlana must have given old Waconda, first rival of St Louis, its name: the name which constituted It the one among the many , ghost cities of Oregon that was God: for the As torlana under Hunt found the In dian tribes along their way call ing the God they worshipped Wa conda, whose home was, they-believed, in the high peaks ot the Rocky mountains. For nearly 85 years the reen ord that .has brought- together taia tribute paying uatlage wax plainly written In the little book kept by the faitiful fathers ot the St Lpui church here. This was the second church of the de nomination fa present Oregon; waa a .ttourisMar . parish for 1 long yean before Salem, the capi tal of the territory aad state, had a CathoUc canrea. Missionary priest went from . here to ' work land administer at what waa to become and became Salem. Sa lem's first Catholic church was dedicated April 10, 18(4. The fourth pastor at Salem, 1274, had beea St Paul's pastor the" year be fore. This church Is a year older than tbe Catholle church at Ore gon City, and seven years older than the first one at Portland, Oregon. Two and a halt years ago, J. WUlard Gay ot Portland told your speaker that his great grandmoth er, the historic Dorion woman, was burled in the St Louis church. Tour speaker believed him; so did Prof. Cleveland S. Simkins, member of the faculty of the University of Tennessee, Memphis, who is also a great grandson, through the historic Gay connection. But your speaker refused to publish his belief, wait ing for proof that could not be Questioned. There Is also a con nection by marriage with the Jo seph Gervais family. The first husband of Marianne ToBpln, daughter of Marie Iowa Dorion Verne Tonpin, was Isaac Xavier Gervais, son of Joseph. His son Jerome and Jeromes son Louis, and the children of Louis, are prominent upstanding Oregon, people. But that search will run far; is only started; it win be pur sued. Isaac Gervais fought under Capt. Tom McKay, who drew the first blood (of Chief Gray Eagle) in the Cayuse war; also In the so called Rogue River and Yakima wars ot 1855-6-7-8, when the sav age tribes from the Missouri river to the Pacific oceaa were ia lea gue to bold back the covered wa gon Immigration and wipe but the whole white race. For the matter of that, so did three Deloars. and members of every prominent Ca nadian French family In the St. Louts and St Paul sections. Bap tist Dorion rode as second lieu tenant la Capt. Wm. McKay's Company 9 in the Cayuse war, ac cording to the muster rolls. The second blood of the Cayuse war was drawn at the same time by another McKay, Lieutenant Charles, who with a shot from his silver mounted rifle put out of commission Chief Five Crows, to whom had been given by the mur derers Lorlnda Bewley, teacher, and she had been ransomed much against the desire of that lustful savage and, in the bearing of the McKays, the Cayuse. leaders were boasting that they would go to the Willamette valley aad kill all the- white men with clubs and take away their wives and daugh ters and other belongings boast la;, too, that they could swallow white mea'a bullets and not be hurt by them. The chapter ot Mrs. Dye Ia her "aicLoagblin and Old Oregon was not overdrawn -the oae In which she described Capt, Tom McKay's historic ride over old French Prairie sTiataionlng to hi company the husbands aad son of wires with IndJaa blood to go with aim and hold back and pun ish - the Cayuse murderers and their allies; a call the response to which was immediate, eataasl astic and, in. some form or other, unanimous to the great relief of all tha whit settlers in Oregon, aad-te the surprise ot some of Kbeta. The Madame Dorloa- family, too. Hake ep with the historic Stasis family, coming downr from Stephea Stasia, co-dlscoverer of gold ia Calfferala with Jaaaea W. Marshall aad Capt Chan. Bennett all three from the vicinity ot what became Salem iadeed. the first gold rushers went frenm. the Wil lamette valley, and they organised the state of California, with Ore gon's supreme Jadge, peter H. Burnett for governor, and with tome of our provisional govern- : , stmopsis; Darius' a narr h Welrlr lira. Viol tnilerBanh. ia uuuilcud and her Jrvats atohtxu Asms w vnsta war job and Jimmy Kirkmrn. her neighbor, and their tenant. Sc. Gregnxy Val- ptobo artist, vuena Tsar ber.a aswspauei rrporut aad dl Pitted J2oagiae W. Cooltni t JdEoogia w ttatxcai enert, afarjorie TiailLaj " fimnf P.... Diane, a specialty dancer, are also present. The crim occaxred while ,th , Jaooae era in darkness aad dram were beating for Eofer Znlaiaacav Violet bad been sara-mo-aed to. private telephone ia hat bedroom. Her maid. gta found her .chloroformed aad" gagged. Aboor that time. Price Merriaxn. Violet' secretary aad companion, who operated th lights for Roger's dance, had dif&catty ia tarxonay thaes on after ha vine put for Mogera entrance. Tharhet disappeared daring the performance to make a telephone can aext door. Valcoor had ron there to get soma ot bis paintings for Violet , Elsie the maid claims she was bory ia the kitchen when th teirnhons rang, but both Mer riam and Cupples. th butler, state she waa not there. According to Capples th call was from th tele graph of&c stating it had a rses ag from Montreal for Mrs. Elderbanav A check-op reveals there was no such call bat that Glenn Thnxber telephoned at 12:21. Tbnrber emphatically denies this. As a is shoot to let Darden Into bis room. Thurber discovers his key ts missiitg. The reporter's fin gerprints ar found on Mrs. Elder bank's phona. Valcour claim that while he-was ia bis studio getting; the pictures, he saw Thurber come in, but did not see him go oat again, nor did he hear Thorbcr telephon ing. Roger tens th polic be was putting th finishing touches to his make-up between 12:25 and 12:45 P. M, the trm the mnrder was committed. A black smudge as of burnt cork is found oa Violet's bed. clothes. A tracer . torroborrres Tnnrber statement that b tale phoned bis office from the public telephone in the Kirk-man boas. Darden examines Merriam's apart. men! a few door away from the Elderbank residence. CHAPTER XVirj Darden moonted the steps to the skylight and examined the lock. It was merely a sturdy latch that could be opened only from tbe inside. "Any signs ef anything t" asked atmtitt anxiously. Oh, I cant teH." said Harden, de scending. "1 ha vent the proper equipment But I want te ask yew a favor. Mr. Merriaas. 1 want oar ongeT-prrnt maa t go over this place thoroughly, just as a precau tion, to-morrow, and Td rather you didn't stay her to-night I dont waat to take any chances of muss ing things up. Go to a hotel. wQI year" "Why. certainly. acreed Men rlam, but act with great alacrity; "Ton don't snpotae aavbedr eon Id have eortie through here to-nightJ oa yon to ex tram the reef T" Darden looked at him keenly. "I cont know. WhjT 1 aosx one at tae kern ta mi apartment the other day went off aad left it in tbe lock, you know as one saaaetimes does, aad when I retoraed it was gene." "Hml Dont know who might have got ft eh? You'd better change your lock.' Darden looked a rewind with ap- Crent easualaess. He- thrust his sd through a rear window and looked for fire-escape. There were none. He looked toward the Elderbank house, three doors away, which was still lighted brilliantly. He withdrew bis head and thrust it back again, attracted by something that had almost escaped bis notice, i He flashed his light on it . There were no shutters on the window but in other days there bad been, and a hook embedded ia the masonry on either aids had served j as a catch to hold each shatter epen. ment's fundamental laws among that fledgling state's first lairs and we having then the only dele gate in congress from west of Mis souri, our people, with his (S. R. Thurston's) aid, broke California, fall pinioned and full panoplied, with every right and privilege, of statehood, into the Union, with no waiting at the door for pro visional or territorial forms; ex cepting the brief Bear Flag re public incident In short, Oregon is the mother of California, and at most times -pxoud of her loud and lusty daughter who has ia many ways outran her slower go ing and more modeet mother. Without such pilots and forerun ners as the Dorion woman, and the early pioneers following, tbe Bri tish flag instead of the Star and Stripes would long ago have float ed not alone over Fort Astoria, where It would yet wave, but would have greeted the morning breexes throughout all the country west of the Rockies and their ex-, tensions, from Behriags sea to lowest lead's end of North Amer ica. In so much were the bird wo man and her red sister harbingers of destiny: shall we say heralds of Providence? The story of the sufferings stoi cally borne of the lion hearted woman who came overland with the As tors is too long to more than iefer to briefly her,. If not in some respects too terrible, and almost beyond belief. As the party came dowa the Snake river val ley, having mistakenly and un luckily turned southward instead of following a route approxlmate lng that ef Lewis aad Clark, tbe man were called apoa to taeeaad endure all the pangs ot thirst and banger approaching tbe point ef the most painful of deaths. And, through all the horrible hell of It leading; a small ebDd, carry ing another en ber back, and a third within a few weeks of birth, she trudged aa, fairly outdoing the stroageat ot the asen. natil they repeatedly registered their undying admiration la acts of sportsmanship Qualifying that hungry baad, to the last mother's son ot them, for tbe shining rssks of the order of knighthood la Its fullest flower. (Continued tomorrow.) JAMBORXE IS FRIDAY 8ILVERTON, April 2 The senior Girl Reserves wilt Join tbe stunt makers at tha Junior Jam boree Friday night Miss Ruth Vance, adviser, has been helping the girls practice tor their stoat Looped tightly around the hook on urn side or the window njearest ruiv iioseaa waa the end nf a stent card, which dangiad down ia- Ceaaneiy ia tha ttarVp'Fr Dsrrkn reached for i and patted tt law He kept anHiax. and hi amasrment grew. The cord, it ap peayed, was seventy or earbty feet - ""What tha Atrrf! V mtm.ttmA tir. den.--- "Where oa earth did wm ewt thai from I gasped Merriasn. - "in a hear fieainr one Croat Una. -1 men an'H mTI it " mm. tnented Darden. "What have too been a-ainjr ft f or? "Me? Why, I haven't used tt for anything!" cried Merriam irritably. "I nawir i 1Va Wk. a. earth, should I have a ashing line J t" ..... oangunjr our into the coortl "A who! ball of cord, vou'd bet. ter say.-" Darden drew la the end of the Use. the balk of it coiling ta bxms at bis feet He fingered it ginger inere were twists and curls near the free end of the. line which seemed ta indtrata tKa 4 kal k.. StrODhr irnotturl Jim mttimA twl the cord waa stiff enough to retain paruy inese convoiuuons. Evident iy something had been tied on the end of it, and then untied. -New l know yoo doat sleep here to-niHtt-" sakl Hia STiiint mwIIi "NobodV sleena hra hut a tmlioa. man and he'd better keep awake I " Inaseetor MeFTntn v cide bureaa visited the scene of the crime oa the following morning, which was Tuesday. September th eighth. Sergeant Darden, keen and ttreleae aa aver aftw m fv tumM of sleep, reviewed minutely for his sopenor ma oevetepments of the night McEntry was a heavfly boift. mns tached individual with steady gray eyes and a dtmiinating solidity of demeanor. He was apparently good h moored, bnt there waa. a cranite back-wall behind his Jovialneaa. On ieu oe was a man who bad never been bullied and seldom deceived. He had m rVflh tvr- rw n..rinn. XI a had muscled his way op, as they saia u ue nnaerworia. xrom a pa trolman's post Murders were his specialty, aad ha had investigated hundreds of them. He classified his murder instinc tively as. he viewed the matrix of the crim. There arere ax mur ders, knife murders, club murders, strangling, all the work ef dis tinctive varieties ef kffiers. There were murders for profit, for re venge, for concealment; ordinary assassination by thieve and cow men, poison conrpiraciee of the warped though cultivated mind. Bat the Elderbank did net fail easily into any ef these general categories, ft was a bigs-powered jewel theft with accidental murder, th In spector told himself, bat it was not at all what tt bad seemed it first ght the work of ordinary "prowlers." To prewL in tae argot or the naderworid, is to burgia. MeEnJry absorbed the salient aspects of the ease without com ment Jk daylight investigation of tha mrfl kal eanamJ nmtm mmm additional due. if ft could be called la clue. ItwasapencLaoftneneil laf heavy lead, reand, f vantiahed cedar. wUboat aa eraser. Evidently ft bad been sharpened ut eneei and urn pun a anre-eagaa axuie. Tae point had been broken off. The naaefl hail ham funuf .n fh of -Jixmy aUrkmanw boose, adjoin ing sirs. Eiderbaaka It had Iain in th vain all iMit Jt JTaA possibflity of finger-prints. MeEniry had pencil experts witb tn ealL Ha dirf rtnt W mtW txl omniscient xnecialista in tb haml. cide boxean. because there was available to him at aD times, in technical matters, tbe best talent aad the mc advanced thought that tha world's greatest city afforded. He instructed Darden to send a man with tbe pencil to its manufacturers and distributors, to ascertain if pos sible when it was made, the lot in which it was shipped, tbe special uses to which extra-eeft pencils of The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers SfS OF UNBELIEF Editor: Safety Valve. - "Survival of the Soul" as sug gested by the new (or old?) skep tic, Clareaoe Darrow ef the Scopes trial fame. It Is with great sorrow and re gret that we read this statement of Mr. Darrow ia your paper. An other brilliant aad great mind added t the many -of which God said: "In knowledge there Is grief, and in wisdom, there is sorrow. We (and I lndude all good Christiana) shudder with fear and tremblings, not personal fear, bat fear for this maa'e aouL And also, we pity him. For out of this man's own mouth, he stands condemned. Why? Why does this man, not satisfied with sending his own soul to eternal damnation, try. to take others along with him? To answer my own question permit me to say that this Mr. Darrow, by hig-own admission Is a "material ist One who deals with cold facts and stark reality. One who, when it Is raining, says it is' wet, and when, by the same token, unless he can see into the future life after death, says with his blas phemous lips that "there is no such thing.- "Elol" "Hoi" "With hold thy band yet a HtUe whne." God says in the "Word" that the stn ot unbelief shall not be forgiven. It Is the only sin for which God. la all Ms kindness aad love for aaan can sever find forgiveness ia the "Lambs' Book of Life." Due to some faulty teachings seats where along this man's lite, be lost hie desire to walk with God, And at some place along tbe way, "He" turned bis. face away tram this IndividaaL "My Spirit shall aot always strive with man." So said the Lord. I am wondering, was and Is Mr. Darrow a wiser man than Solo mon? Was be wiser than Ikhne toa? History tells us that "Ikhna toa" was the first man apon tbe earth Ja the Nile valley who had the vision of a one and only God. creator of all things. Tbe trouble with Ikhaaton's God. . "Atoa" meaning Saa God, was that he was, to them of .Ikbnaton'a day, thhr variety were put. Similar In quiriea were being Bade oa tbe sub ject ef the cord fooad daegnag from' th. window of . Price Mer riam's -anarOnent,. - Tbe' Insueclw ordeied . tt erriani land Roger Doaaedetaiaed at head quarters for eijestjoninx- The col. ored mai(fs roaming' friend, Johnny Hankins, who. had drifted Into hi Harlem lodging -at fotn o'clock with a enigma wad ef en dollar bills 1a his pocket, also was being detained. - He admitted not without pride that th an dollar bill had been garnered ia s crap game, ia which he bad started with e&Jy five doflara It was only after a sier of very rough Questioning, however. that he confessed bavins dropped by Mrs. Elderbank honae the aiah before to borrow that basis five dol lars from bis lady friend. Elsie Seever. Mrs. Eldrbanks ehanffear. Chlf . Spencer, waa aaother persoa ouea tioned. Q had been excused from duty late the previous afternoon, aad had spent the night with rela tives in a distant Long Island town. His alibi was- an assailable, and he could tell tha police aothina of value. Tbe finger-print expert Captain Nobiey, eaeld ancover nothing as. fnl ia his examination of Price Mer riam's apartment. Tbe stairs to the roof looked as theagb tbey had bees wiped dean, be reported, and the same was true of the wiadew sill near which tha cord had beea sus pended. Whether this careful deans, ing had been done by th tndostrioas housemaid or ether persons, tt could not be established Cunning crimi nals. Nobiey observed, were well versed in this trick, and canarae criminals had robbed aad killed Vk let Elderbank. Detectives e-aestloned th house maid, the girl who helped her. and every tenant of the bouse Merriam uvea to, and here there was devel oped one lead of possible promise. The housemaid. Mrs. EUion, who bved ia th bacaeut.aJoaeidaa superintendent of the small house. Two weeks ago she bad rented a two-room apartment ea the aeeead floor to a maa whom she aad seldom seea since, lira EUion was near sighted, and people came and went with -their ewa keys, ee this was not remarkable. The man had given th same af Garrke. He bad famished references, bat lira. ESion had lost them, wheeh waa I net af cenaeaaence because Mr. Carries had paid two- Booths rent ia advance for bis f arnisaed fiat What did Br. Garvice look tikef Why. herweeof medium tatSd, eyes either bcowa or array, aose neither straight nor peg-, "just sort ef in between." Plain-faced, If Mrs. EHiea remembered right, seemed sort of aervoua. She'd know aba if she saw him again, but that was as near as she coald describe aim, She did not know whether b looked exactly prosperous or rather shabby. - Detectives catering fat aparV meat of XXc Garvice could not find atraoeof kirn no Irfrl no cloth. tag. ace even a etgaxetx huts. The further eramfnarfon ef Mer riam. Dnaae, Qena Tbnrber aad tbe negro Johnny Hankins at bead- quarters likewise availed nothing, thsnga the examination was tedious and turbulent No tree ef state iewelrv er elatJiinjr had been -faemd at JZan- kins's alace ef abode. Hi storv of the cran game was verified, biscon frerea as that sport agree lag that Jahsay had shawav an ahorUy be lore one e ciacx and bad -displayed fire dollars as his sol DreKminarv capttaL Th crapgame had been held at a place ea West Flfty-ainth Street Detectives traced tbe five dollar bill (which Johnny bad en m having cleaned out the ramei to the branch bank where Mrs. Et derbank bad secured ft on tbe pre nous Saturday, so that tt evidently had beea paid to Elsie Seever In wages, . and her story seemed sub stantiated. CTo Be Continued) Cantleav use w I imnamatmn the sun. No one In that day thought, to look behind the San. to see what or who made tt shine so bright. In pity and compassion I write these lines, and continue with faith, hope and with prayer for the soul of him who Is lost for ever, unless he. ot himself, makes aa effort to look through that "veil" which was rent for him, for me. and for your readers, at the time our Lord Jesus was cru cified: Bead Proverb lt:-. BERTRAM L. HAMILTON. LIBERTY. April 23. The lo cal Christian Endeavor sponsored an Easter egg: hunt ea the school grounds Sunday afternoon, with Jesse Johnson, president in charge. - A eoateet feature . was that to determine the funniest "Easter bonnet" present r Patsy Dasch won first on that score. Prise for -fladiag the most eges went to Msry Sargeat; for the prettiest egg to Wilma Sargent: Phillip Forster was first ia the egg eating contest Attendance was good. Special Easter service were held here. Rev. Edgar P. Sims delivered, tbe Easter sermon and these numbers followed: Rec'ta tions aad readings by Wilms Sar gent Poeaid Johnson. Cecil Sa gent -Josephine Westenhoese: tonfc "He Arose," by Tillman Hauser. Phillip Forster, Mary Sargent. Jacqueline Jadd, Wilma Sargent. Mildred Leek. Patsy Dasch; duet "Raster Bells." by little Bobby and Le Verne Sar gent; song, Muriel Baker; read lag, E. B. Haaser: vocal duet, James Rose and WUlard Hauser; harmonica sola by Glen Leek. ' . BETTK KORINEK WIXS STAYTON, April tt Bette fiorinex wen nrat prise, -one dot lar, la. the anneal Legion Auxil iary rorsT roster contest, second prize went to Bette Aane Goede; third prise -to Max Start oa aad ' honorable mention to Leona Bnr mester. ; Barbara Watte rs aad Paddy Mechen. Judges were Mrs. W. A. Inglia, Mrs. Eugene Span' lol and Mrs, Mike Wendtt, EGG Ml STAGED FOR CHURCH YD 11