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. -- - -: & - TAGDJOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, September 21 1925 i - I aT " i kry rounds isst i : :"Ko Favor Sways Ui; No Fear ShaUiAwf' . From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 ? : THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chables A. Spbacus - - - . Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - - Managing-Editor - - llember of the Associated Press" i Thm Associated Press la exclusively entitled to tha use for publics Hon ot all Dwa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited M this paper. Fire Hazards in Schools AN effort is being made to stampede the taxpayers of school district No. 24 into voting a $650,000 bond issue on the ground that great fire hazards exist in structures it is proposed to replace. We do not question the sincerity of the advocates of the bond issue in this respect; and it is easy to conjure up the fears of parents over possibilities of disaster. The word "firetrap is frequently heard in the discussions. Taxpayers may well spend a little time to examine the build ings in question: the senior high school, Lincoln and Yew Park grade schools. Many will be unable to do so ; and to furnish them with pertinent facts this editor made an inspec tion of the buildings and examined reports of the state fire marshal. Some elementary guides need to be kept in mind. First, the fact that a building has stood for 30 of 40 years is no proof that it will escape burning in the future. Second, the fact that a building will burn down does not justify condemn ing it unless there is a grave menace to life which cannot be . removed. Third, the hazard of loss of property is not. signif icant because this loss is insurable and the district protects itself adequately with insurance. Fourth the hazard of loss of life must be measured in terms of building use. A school house is not so dangerous as a textile factory or chemical factory for example, where the air is filled with inflammable materials or gases; nor is it so hazardous as a hotel or hos pital with sleeping rooms. Fifth, the fact that a building has brick walls on the outside doesn't make it fire-safe for occu pants, because building fires rarely start in the exterior walls of detached-buildings like schools; and the interior of brick-walled buildings may be just as combustible as a wholly frame-building. One might think, in view of the current contention, that fire hazards are a late discovery in the schools of Salem, which would provoke the inquiry as to where the fire author ities and the school administration and board have been all these years. In truth they have not been indifferent. The schools are subject to regular inspection, and the board has .considered reports and acted thereon, with few failures to comply with recommendations. In only one of the buildings, the senior high school, now being considered do appreciable fire hazards to life exist. The fire marshal has called the attention of the board to these conditions ; and corrections should be made. If the bond issue is voted down it may be relied on that the board will make those corrections! There are two danger-spots in this build ing: one, on the fourth floor, where fire escape means of exit is inadequate and unsafe ; second, the ventilating ducts whose base is adjacent to the furnace room. These extend the height and nearly the width of the building; the air is circulated through them by fans, which makes a natural chimney for fire to ascend. It is entirely practical to reduce these hazards without great expense. The furnace room should be insulated and openings covered with fire doors. If the fourth floor con tinues to be used proper fire escapes should be provided. If additional means of exit is required from the auditorium there is a whole row of windows across the north side where exterior fire escapes could be connected. These changes might cost around $10,000; but the building would then be reason ably free from risk of loss of life from fire. At some greater expense the gymnasium could be lowered and the auditorium put on top of the gym with exits available in abundance. It is easy to condemn Lincoln and Yew Park schools be cause they are frame buildings that have stood over 40 years. A careful inspection will afford some surprises. The buildings are in excellent repair and in good condition; clean; spa cious ; airy with high ceilings. Neither of these buildings may properly be called a firetrap. Exits are direct and ample and the distance to the outside short. While in each building the furnace is under the central hall, it is well insulated with brick. From first floor doors it is only fifteen or twenty feet to the outside. At Lincoln the stairs do not land directly over the furnace ; and at Yew Park there is a third stairway leading directly to the outside. In both buildings good exter ior fire escapes serve the second floor. It takes from 45 to 60 seconds to vacate each building. The Washington school is not on the proscribed list; but we visited it for good measure. This patriarch is over 50 years old but it is a grand building yet. Repairs on it have cost less than for Parrish which i3 about ten years old. Ex cept for a few patches in floors the original stair treads and flooring are still used. They are kept in good condition, well painted or varnished. There is an abundance of room, though some closet space and shelving are needed. High ceilings pro vide plenty t)f air space. In fire drills the building is vacated in 34 seconds. The second floor has four exit stairways be sides exterior fire escapes. Fire hazard to life is almost non existent as a practical matter. The worst feature about the grade schools is not the fire risk but the poor lighting. At Yew Pork we saw rooms about 25x30 with only a single drop cord and light bulb. At Lincoln the trees come so close to the building sunlight is cut off. In the third grade room however an experimental installation of bowls providing indirect lighting which is wonderful. Sev eral thousand dollars devoted to such improvement in illum ination'in all the buildings would surely result in saving of eyesight and better school work. These old grade school buildings impress one as being sturdily constructed, with spacious rooms, though with win dow arrangement not so good as in modern buildings. No parent should be ashamed of them; and npne should fear for the safety of the children from fire caused by the burning of the building. The children are so trained in fire drills and the exits are so convenient that they would be out of the building in less than a minute. A note should be added in commendation of the princi pals and janitors. Everywhere the schools are well maintain ed and kept clean. No litter is allowed about the furnace doors. Wood fuel is wheeled in only as needed. To conclude: fire hazards alone do not justify condemn ing the grade school buildings ; they might of the high school except that it is practical to reduce or remove them at not too great expense. This is submitted for what it is worth, as the opinion cf this editor; and is based on personal inspection and consultation with competent authority. Jittery Stock Markets STOCK markets are jittery over war scares. Recently they have been moving up, evidently on the scent of war prof its. Coppers and chemicals have been strong; Friday mar kets slumped, also on "war scare". It reminds one of the stock market flurries at the time the world war began. So risky was the market that the stock exchange closed for. a period when war broke out.; Later came a bull market as American firms gathered in war profits on munitions contracts. In late 1913 on the eve of the Wilson peace move the market took a nose dive, which caused the government "to investigate the short selling to see if there had been a leak in information about the Wilson peace move. After the United States entered the war stocks, except ri I l lllilll The Great Game of Politics - - -. i -.,., ... By FRANK R. KENT ; CojjTlcht 1933, by The Btlttnwrt Sua Postponing Decisions Washington, Sept. 20. FOR the first two years there ap peared to .be a deliberate New Deal effort to postpone Supreme Court decisions as to constitu tion a 1 i t t of New Dear acts. It -has been stated many times that this was on the ad vice of Dr. Fel ix Frankfurter, the Harvard sa vant, who prob ably has had more to do with molding the Roosevelt poli Frank X. Kant cies than any- one else, and whose young disci- pies, wedged into a variety of jobs, largely constitute the so called Brain Trust. THE theory of postponing the test was understood to be based on be lief that in two years these nation al planning experiments, which are more like the proposals in the socialist party platform of 1932 than anything in the democratic platform, would have achieved success and become so firmly es tablished that the court would not dare upset them. This idea proved wrong on both counts first, the chief experiment NRA failed; second, the court struck, at. its foundations with impressive unan imity. But for the government policy, the invalidity of the NRA could have been determined in six instead of twenty-three months, and a year and a half of futile labor plus much money been saved. NOW, the question arises as to whether it intends to pursue the policy of postponement or wheth er it will reverse that policy. Sev en out of 10 administration laws enacted at the last session of con gress are believed to be uncon stitutional by an overwhelming majority of competent lawyers. But, unless the administration chooses to facilitate instead., of delaying decisions, not one of these acts can be finally passed upon before the next presidential election. In a recent survey Mr. David Lawrence pointed out that the average time elapsing between the passage of New Deal legisla tion and court decision has been 15 months. It took twenty and one-half months to get" the gold clause decision, twenty - three months and eleven days before the NRA verdict was had. THE AAA and the TV A cases have taken an equal length of time to reach the final stage- Decisions are expected on them daring the Oc tober session. The prevailing be lief is that the TV A will be up held, but the AAA knocked out so far as the original act is con cerned. However, AAA can, it is claimed be continued under new amendments adopted at the last session and which cannot be test ed, unless the government coop erates, before the election. That it will not try to hasten action on them nor on either the Guffey coal or the Wagner labor board act is regarded as certain on the fir8t, because it is regarded as unde sirable to shut off "the gentle flow of checks" to the farmer before election; on the other two, be cause organized labor leaders want to get as much advantage out of these laws as they can be fore they are declared unconstitu tional, as nearly everyone expects them to be. SO it seems likely the AAA and TVA decisions one of which the government is likely the win, the other lose will be had before the election, but the people will not know definitely about the validity of the acts of last session until after they have elected a presi dent. As the validity of these acts ought to have some effect upon their judgment, it seems a pity the test will not be allowed before the vote. It would make clearer the issue between the New Deal and the basic law of the country. However, it promises to be fairly clear despite the postponement. The idea that there is conflict between the two seems to be sink ing more deeply into the public mind all the time. It is interest ing, too, that it is the Jef fersonian type of democrat what is more in tensely against Mr. Roosevelt on constitutional grounds than any one else. One of these from Vir ginia recently sent in the follow ing quotation from Thomas Jeffer son to refute the suggestion that Jefferson could even remotely ap prove the New Deal direction. "In questions of power," wrote Mr. Jefferson, "let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with the chains of the constitution." Emma Kramer Returning To Monmouth After Year Absence in California MONMOUTH, Sept. 20 Miss Emma Kramer is taking posses sion of her home on S. Whitman street for the winter, after an ab sence of a year, part of which time Miss Kramer spent In Cali fornia with relatives. Her sister- in-law, Mrs. Edith Bon Durant. of HlUsboro, will make her home with Miss Kramer. Mrs. Edna Tarnell, who has oc cupied the Kramer residence, has moved with her daughter. Miss Edna June, to the Young house on is. Monmouth avenue.. - S 'i rails and utilities, were buoyant, and 1919 and 1920 saw speculation rampant, followed by the toboggan ride of late 1920 and 1921. - ; - Speculating now is like gambling, and the swings are wide and losses or gains big. Should war come some compan ies would profit, and speculators would begin like foxes to smell out the winners. It is- a sad day though when stock trading gets its stimulus from war's waste. Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS How Sheridan got four , -train of rations routed . for Lee's hungry army the . day before its surrender: V - The average reader knows young i. second Lieutenant Phil. Sheridan, then aged 30 years and less than 6 months, left Salem Sept. 1, 18(1, called to the Civil war. (He was born March S, 1831.) Also that he told his friend A. Bush, founder and publisher of The Statesman, upon leavings that he hoped for promotion; be lieved he might get to be a cap tain if the war lasted long enough. a S S And that. In three years and a few days more than seven months thereafter, through General Cus ter, under his orders, he received the flag of truce (a crash towel) from General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox court house, April 9, 1865 ending the Civil war. S In his Memoirs, General Sher idan wrote of a pathetic if some what amusing incident of the five last days ot the war. His account follows : S S . "From the beginning it was ap parent that Lee, in his retreat, was making for Amelia court house, where his columns north! and south of the Appomattox riv er could join, and where, no doubt, he expected to meet sup plies, so Crook was ordered to march early on April 4 to strike the Danville railroad, between Je tersville and Burkeville, then move south along the railroad to ward Jetersville, Merritt to move toward Amelia court house, and the 5th corps to Jetersville itself. (Amelia, county seat of Amelia county, Va., is about 35 miles east of Appomattox, county seat of Ap pomattox county.) "The 6th corps got to Jeters ville about 5 in the afternoon, and I immediately intrenched it across the Burkeville road with the determination to stay there till the main army could come up, for I hoped we could force Lee to surrender at Amelia court house, since a firm hold at Jetersville would cut him off from his line of retreat from Burkeville. (Jet ersville is about 10 miles from Amelia, and Burkeville a little over 10 miles further west.) "Accompanied only by my es cort the 1st U. S. cavalry, about 200 strong I reached Jetersville some little time before the 4th corps, and, having nothing else at hand. I at once deployed thi3 handful of men to cover the cross roads till the arrival of the corps. "Just as the troopers were de ploying, a man on a mule, headed for Burkeville, rode Into my pick ets. "He was arrested, of course, and being searched there was found in his boots this telegram in duplicate, signed by Lee's com missary general; " 'The army is at Amelia court house, shoTt of provisions. Send 300,000 rations quickly to Burke ville Junction.' One copy was addressed to the supply department at Danville (large city about 70 miles distant from Appomattox and near the North Carolina line), and the other to that at Lynchburg (about 20 miles west of Appomattox.) . "I surmised that the telegraph lines north of Burkeville had been broken by Crook after the des patches were written, which would account for their being sent by messenger. "There was thus revealed not only the important fact that Lee was concentrating at Amelia court house, but also a trustworthy ba sis for estimating his troops, so I sent word to Crook (General Crook) to strike up the railroad toward me, and to Merritt, . . . . on the heels of the enemy, to leave Mackenzie there and close in on Jetersville. Staff officers were also despatched to hurry up Griffin with the 5th corps, and his tired men redoubled their strides. mm "My troops, too, were, hard up for rations, for in the pursuit we could not wait for rations so I concluded to secure if possible these provisions intended for Lee. "To this end I directed Young (chief of scouts or spies) to send four of his best scouts to Burke ville Junction. There they were to separate, two taking the rail- Twenty Years Ago September 21, 1915 The Chemawa Indian school will this year send 12 of its grad uates from the eighth grade to Sal em high school. Definite arrangements have been made for a complete drain age survey of 75 square miles of French prairie to be started with in a week by a government engi neer. A city ordinance is pending providing a fine of $2.50 for home owners whose sprinkling systems deluge the pedestrian sidewalk. Ten Years Ago September 21, 1925 Federal dry forces are concen trating on illicit dealers and leav ing petty offenders to local au thorities. The international convention of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs is meeting in Portland this week. A Seattle woman planted a neat right on the Jaw of a traffic offi cer In that city today when he told her to retrace her steps when the signal said "stop". road toward Lynchburg and two toward Danville, and, a soon as a telegraph station was reached the telegram was to be transmit ted as it had teen writeen and the provisions thus : hurried for ward .... As the enemy had been feeling us ever since morning (Apr. 4), to leant what he was up to t directed Crook to send Da vies' brigade on a reconnoissanco to Paine's crossroads. (Gen. H. E. Davies, who wrote one of the best books on Sheridan.) -V V . "Davies soon found oat that Lee was trying to escape by that flank, for at the crossroads he found the Confederate trains and artillery moving rapidly west ward. "Having driven away. the se cort. Da Ties succeeded in burning nearly 200 wagons, and brought off five pieces ot artillery. Among these wagons were some belong ing to General Lee's and to Gen eral Fltzhugh Lee's headquarters. This work through, Davies with drew and rejoined Crook ... I sent despatches to General Grant, explaining what Davies had done, and telling him that the 2nd corps was arriving, and that I wished he himself was present. I assured him of my confidence In our cap turing Lee if we properly exert ed ourselves . .V General Grant, who on the 5th was accompanying General Ord's column toward Burkeville, ... set out for Jeters ville immediately, but did not reach us till near midnight. . . . We went over to see Meade .... In this interview Grant . . stated that the orders Meade had already issued would permit Lee's escape, and therefore must be changed, for it was not the aim only to follow the enemy, but to get ahead of him. remarking during the conversation that he 'had no doubt Lee was moving right then.' . . . . When, on the morning of the 6th, Meade advanced toward Amelia court house, HE FOUND, AS PREDICTED, THAT LEE WAS GONE. It turned out that the retreat began the evening of the 5th and continued all night." S Here Sheridan in his Memoirs described the battle of Sailor's creek, on April 6th. He said: , "Just after crossing Sailor's creek, a favorable opportunity of-: fering, both Merritt and Crook at-j tacked vigorously, gained the Rice: Station road, destroyed several hundred wagons, made many pris oners, and captured 16 pieces of artillery. "This was important, but more valuable still was the fact that we were astride the enemy's line of retreat, and had cut off from join ing Longstreet ... a corps of Confederate infantry under Gen eral Ewell, composed of Ander son's, Kershaw's and Custls Lee's divisions, Stagg's brigade and Miller's battery . . . The complete isolation of Ewell from Longstreet in his front and Gordon In his rear led to the battle of Sailor's creek. ONE OF THE SEVEREST CONFLICTS OF THE WAR, for the enemy fought with despera tion to escape capture, and we. bent on his destruction, were no less eager and determined." (Concluded tomorrow,) Osborne Prune Drier Running Two Shifts as Harvest Hits Strides AMITY, Sept. 20. Mrs. Dora Schoolcraft of Dilley was a guest at the home of Mrs. J. M. Umph lette Tuesday and Wednesday. Prune picking is well under way in this locality. The W. R. Osborne prune dryers are running two shifts daily. There is an average crop but the prunes are small. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers CONDEMNS LOOSE CONDITIONS To the Editor: Portland, Oregon, Is manifestly paying a tearful price In tears, blood, civic decency and econom ic destruction, for the privilege ot obtaining revenue from the sale of Intoxicating liquor. Figures re cently given out by the city police department disclose, there have been fifty-one traffic fatalities during the present fiscal year, with nearly three hundred Injur ed, and sixty-five percent of the damage done was attributed to intoxicated drivers. No matter which way you turn in Portland you are confronted with booze, booze, booze. When you can't se it openly through the windows you can smell It In the air. Like the rancid fumes that emanate from the paper mills, one can scent the sour odors of malt from any direction. I have never seen liquor in the apart ments where we have our rooms, but the hallways smell like e brewery. Street cars, motor buses, grocery stores, hotels, hospitals, mortuaries and churches, all reek with the disgusting mal-odors of fermented brew. God knows any place Is bad enough these days, but Portland should be given the fur-lined bath tub for low down debautchery. A fellow who walks down the street here should possess the agility of a mountain billy-goat, to side step the automobiles caroming over the side walks, with maudlin drivers at the steering wheels. Take it from me, folks, if yon should have any business in Port land, drive np early In the morn ing and stay oft these highways after nightfall. Yon may get your new ear smashed up : and . your neck broke. Skeptics will doubtless say that a statement like this is just fan atical balderdash, but the figures are on my side, and eo are the undertakers. 'Personally, I hold I such an Infernal prejudice against liquor, that I would never con- Good-bye S iff- v . fS . aMaaMmMMaMfiHakii . 4 6 CAST INTO EDEN" CHAPTER XXVTI Jerome had dreaded the neces sity ox mutilating the rare old Spanish chests. He was connois seur enough to appreciate their beauty and antiquarian enough to , estimate meir value. Also he was sailor enouch to feel a nth nf ell. perstition at the finding of the keys - moment wnen Bome- tnmg or infinitely greater beauty and value was threatened. Th Hi. version created by the sharp jin- K'lnis naa sreaaiea Jerome. The chest keys suggested clothes and clothes suggested the responsibility of civilization. A man at home whose income had ceased should not take unto himself a wife until he could support her, so why do so anywhere. . Linda also had dreaded violating the chests, but for a different rea son. She had come to accept the absent proprietor as the Lord of the island paradise, but no loving or meTciful one. She thought of him as a beetle-browed tyrant with a shambok in one hand and a steel hook where the other belonged. She reasoned that nobody but an unholy terror would dare go off and leave valuable possessions unpro tected. The chances were that his name was known and dreaded aU along the Coast. The sign on the Tree of the Forbidden Fruit seemed to indicate as much. It promised immediate retribution with no ref erence to name or address or the guilt or identity of the violator. Thus relieved in mind and ex hausted in body they fell asleep much as good children do on Christ mas Eve, when the excitement of a joyful situation is soothed by the fact of its benefits being close ahead. Every person of sense loves to savor happiness a little before its assimilation, and such a process is not arrested by sleep. The sub conscious is happily aware of the bright promise, and diffuses the sense of benefaction. Jerome was awakened by the macaw's: "Well, what in blazes do you want?" several times repeated. This impolite question appeared to be the extent of the bird's English diction. It was the sort of which one rendition might make a hit, and the second be still a laugh, if prop erly synchronized. The macaw had so far kept with in the line of demarcation that sep arates the comedian from the bore. It had accomplished this by absent ing itself from the house premises : until something appeared to be go ing on. Jerome reflected on the un conscious subtlety of putting on the single act in one's repertoire at a moment when it could make a hit, whatever the situation. That, he reflected, was what had got the par rot species popularity, just as it had got the owl species an ancient and lasting reputation for wisdom through what might be called the "reverse English," in this case, si lence. There were more people like that macaw, he told himself, than there were macaws like that macaw. They had one line, and if they were clever enough fend self-contained enough to hold it until the right moment, their reputation became estab lished. It occurred to him then that the macaw for all its limitations and one-phrase boisterousness never de livered ..without an audience. Je rome got np and went out to see of what this audience might consist. There was none apparent. Tet the macaw, perched on its high branch, and entirely indifferent to such a dead-head as Jerome, kept on re peating at nicely timed intervals: "Well, what in blazes do yon want!" Between these efforts it policed itself a littlfc The chances were, Jerome thought, that there was an audi ence invisible to himself in tha bush, sent- to any method of control, federal control, or any other kind for t will have nothing to do with It. Bat If I were compelled to choose between the systems of li quor control we have in Oregon, and the old time .saloons, I would take; the saloons. , . ; Portland now has 1400 licensed places that are dispensing Intoxi cating liquor, and 1 do not sup- SummerThere Isn't Any More not far away. It could not be Cap tain Moriarty, because the greatest ambition of that Gentleman of For tnne had been to leave the island and report tfhat he had found there. Even without such a report, ?v nrSntly desired to leave the island. It could not be any of the gorilla family because the ma caw was too used to them to waste elocution. The macaw, Jerome decided, must have been formerly the pet of some English-speaking agent of a Cen tral American port and a man who disliked any interruption to a siesta that was prolonged. His peevish interrogation had impressed itself on the bird's mimicry and, with that odd intelligence that birds possess, it had learned bow to use that He rapped again, then looked phrase whether to impress or to annoy. The fnnfiw tA n. .ItAwn 4V. slis-htest friendliness chumminess, which is a low-grade inendimess for mutual satisfac tion. The social relationship of the miflv had lieon ntW tli.l . neighbor who looks in only when Bomeuung unpleasant is Happen ing, not to help but to comment and then resort. Thera was nnl-V.in dearing about the macaw. It had never approached them more close- lv than it favorila krin-li .knn twenty feet overhead, from which- k naa seemea to watch them for awhile with prying scorn, then give a derisive cry and fly away. Jerome now reflected that tn macaw never ripped out its Eng lish vocalism except at something unusual, something of a trespass character. The bird's intelli associated tha query with tha sud den annearaitM f mn.lwi. r. there was nobody to be seen about u premises. Tha sun was wn cm meant that it was ali-Mrf k.i day. Jerome was annoyed-at hav jwrslept for the first time They had to haul tha dory out of pose It ever had more than two hundred saloons at any, one time In its history. The Oregonlan re ports that the entire municipality U In the throes ot gangster rule. Racketeering and open Igambliag ar rife here, and .every one In authority from the mayor down, seems to have sold out lock, 6tock and barrel, to tha-aatellltea of the underworld. - !' i lire H jcfHh i t By HENRY C ROWLAND the living room and work her down to the beach. This ought not to be difficult as the pitch of the stream was fairly steep and the stones in its bed smooth and slippery, in some places covered with moss. He stepped inside to awaken Linda and rapped sharply at the door of her room, which was ajar. There was no answer. He rapped again, then looked inside. Linda was not there. The wooden shut ters of a window were open, and its asreen that raa hnn nm was also open. More startling still. hue na ox one oz tne oig richly carved chest thst trwl tMi.rt wall beside the window was raised, uem up dj props at timer end. Jerome's first. mnt?nn.. at this Pandora box curiosity that inside. Linda was not there. had aw.kne. T.?n 3v i- m . light of dawn and driven he see what might be in this handsom est of the chests. She might have awakened him when she found she copld not wait. Then he wondered why she had seen fit to slip out of the window. Sh in... 1 , tt ub wisneu i 86 rl3r sUrt for the r , rr"5. w no sense la her letting him sleep on. lind.'- Chest. when h id oustance. It was more of a throatv ssrXwTnJ f pitc the Lohenirta winVlwT " nia vocalism capped tha oddity vltoSfiL?1 Pormanc? With all they had to do. whv t chest, then slip out of the wiB&w MmTanTsUrt mlrJSZ7 tT em? a wedding march? It was not the time nV Srnre.1?- -bo-ut tne. present situation to warrant Hme hard at work dragging the dory down the bed of thVKoo? (To Be Contimwli IMS. Stat rmmrn Sndfc This is exactly the condition Portland will have as long as Oregon has legalized liquor, for gambling, - racketeering political corruption, bribery and prostltu re the logical fruits, that Mjrfrom the branches of this gi gantic tree of depravity. " ALLEN O. HESS ' Portland, Ore.
