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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, September 21 1925
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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
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The Great Game
of Politics
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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.. -
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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:
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- 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.
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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.
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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 :
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"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.
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"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.)
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"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."
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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 .
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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.