THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928
PAGE FOUR
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The Power Trust Probe
The fact that the majority 'of the United States senate
ordered the Federal Trade commission to probe the power
trust instead of authorizing a senate probe, seems to have
unbalanced our esteemed contemporary, the Portland Jour
nal. It raves and shrieks hysterically and in a catalyptic
convulsion consigns the senate majority to damnation.
In an editorial entitled "The Rotting Parties," the Jour
nal establishes a new standard of democracy and a new guage
of republicanism. Of the Democrats voting against a sen
ate nrobe, it says : -
By' the Jelfersonlan test, they are not Democrats. By the Woodrow
Wilson record in public life, they are not Democrats. They are veneered
reactionaries wearing the Democratic label.
Twenty Democrats voted with Senator Walsh and lor an Investigation
that would lift the lid. They are a true expression of what Jefferson,
Jackson and Wilson stood for.
Of the Republicans voting against the probe, the Jour
nal says:
By the Lincoln test, the 28 are not Republicans. By the Roosevelt
record of war on forest, power and other monopolies, they are not Re
publicans. They and the 18 Democrats are in a party all their own, a party of
betrayal, a party of boot-llckers of Big Business, a hermaphrodite party
that Is nameless and platformless.
,
Since when, it might be asked, did a political investiga
tion, conducted by senate politicians, on the eve of a national
election, for political effect, become the test of Jeffersonian
or Wilson democracy, or of Lincoln or Roosevelt republican
ism? Nor are we willing to believe that the senators, who
voted as they did, comprising many of the ablest men, are
"boot-lickcrs" of the power trust. Moreover, the Federal
Trade commission was organized for just such probes, and
the senate is already investigating almost everything under
the sun and getting nowhere.
We are inclined to think that the power trust made a
mistake in opposing, by a huge lobby', a senate investigation.
It would have been better policy for the public utilities to
have declared, that while they did not want investigation,
because they believed it not needed, that if the senate was
determined to have one, it be as thorough as possible and
that Senator Walsh, who started it, conduct it, and show up
any rottenness, if there is any, for their own benefit as well
as the public'sand if there was none, to give a clean bill
of health.
It must be admitted that the power trust is under a
cloud of public suspicion. Its open purchase of a senator in
Illinois, its corrupt and pernicious political interference in
Maine, in Pennsylvania and numerous other states, has cre
ated a public hostility that any white-wash by the Federal
Trade commission will only intensify. Consequently the
utilities have not aided their cause any by working against
a senate probe but have only damaged it.
The Portland Journal, however, need not dispair. If
the senate prove faithless to its Jefferson, Wilson, Lincoln
and Roosevelt test, it can set a shining example by conduct
ing an investigation of its own into power trust activities in
Portland and Oregon. It has all the evidence before it, in
cluding the pyramiding of utility company capitalization by
endless mergers and absorptions, each accompanied by pro
motional inflation. It has the open record of their interfer
ence and domination of polities so there is no lack of op
portunity. For many years the public utility companies have con
trolled the administration of Portland. Until a few years
ago, they openly paid the mayor a bonus to make his salary
large enough to keep him on the job. One of their hench
men is county chairman of the Republican party. Their in
fluential lobby is always on deck at the legislature. In ad
dition they maintain a political publicity bureau. When
public clamor against increased rates became too strong, an
other of their henchmen organized the Ku Klux Klan and
started a racial and religious war in which the high rates
were completely lost sight of as intended.
Now the proposal is made of another utility merger in
which a company capitalized at $81,000,000 is to absorb a
rival $23,000,000 company. This invokes a pyramiding of
capital similar to those in the past and is part of the plans
of the super-power trust that by interlocking directorates
controls the power of the nation.
Here at home, is ample opportunity for the Portland
Journal to live up to its ideals, though it has been strangely
silent in the past. Why roast the senate for side-tracking
power trust investigation at Washington, when it can con
duct its own power trust investigation in Portland? If the
utility companies come with clean hands, they will be the last
to object.
Ribbons and Laces
By KIIIV AYKES
CHAPTER XLVI
Ltmln's mind flew ahead to a day
when they would be married ln
was not sure that it would be n
hnppy thing to bo Andrew Lincoln's
wife I Would there ever attain be
other women in his life? She re
membered that he had once cared
for Joan Astley, or, at least, had
allowed her to think that he cared.
How many more Joan Aslleys had
thcro been In the years that were
gone?
She asked yet another anxious
question:
"But will you always love me?
Always? Won't you get tired ol me
.-mama day. nemans? '
Ho shook his head; he found her
very adorable in her childish anx
iety. "You must do content to wan
and find that out," ho told her.
"But I want to know," she In
sisted, "because I shan't always be
even as nice as 1 am now. Z often
have headaches and get cross; and
when wo are married " She broke
off to ask quickly: "Why, what is
tno matter?" for he had taken nis
arms from about ber almost as if he
was anyry.
He gave a forced laugh.
"Nothingl I thought I heard Mrs.
Johnson comlnflr. Go on! What
r-ere you saying?"
Linda looked at him with appre
hensive eyes.
"Mrs. Johnson is out," she said,
slowly.
"Is she?" He took her hand,
drawing her asaln into his arms.
"Well, don't waste the precious
time asking me foolish questions,
and telling mo thiiiRS about your
self which I don't want to hear and
don't believe. I don't believe you
are ever cross. You couldn't be! I
don't believe I should love you any
less if you were and I should love
you more if your head ached.
With a little confiding movement
she laid her head down on his
shoulder. . ...
"It aches now," she said, with a
half-sign,
Lincoln turned his head and
kissed her hair.
"You want a holiday. 111 take
you away somewhere, shall X?
Where would y.J like to go?"
"Mrs. Johnson said I ought to
have a day n the country,"
He laughed at that.
"Nonsense! You want a week, or
a monthl When shall we go?"
"Whenever you like."
He looked into her eyes.
"You will be pleased to go with
me, Linda? he asked slowly. To
go alone with me?" he said again
with emphasis.
Linda nodded. "I shall love it"
Already she felt brighter and
happier; she closed her eyes and
tried to iornec mat mere was an
other man somewhere in the world
whose voice had been sweeter music
to her than Andrew Lincoln's; then
suddenly she looked up.
"I forgot to tell you. I had such
a funny letter from from my
mother."
He raised his brows.
"Did you? Well what did she
say?"
Linda told him as well as she
could.
"I should forget it," he said swift
ly. "It's no use worrying over other
people's peculiarities."
That a what Mrs. Johnson saia,
but all the same, I hate her to
write to me like that."
I thought you didn't care for
your mother."
She shook her head.
"I suppose I don't, really, and yet
, . I wish she had not written like
that."
He stroked her cheek.
"She will soon forget it."
"Yes, she will be pleased when I
tell her about you!" She gave his
hand an affectionate little squeeze.
'She probably knows that you have
in aunt who is a countess and
mother loves a title."
Andrew Lincoln looked away from
her.
"What , , . what will you tell your
mother about me?" he asked jerkily.
Linda answered readily enough.
"That you love me. That we are
going to be married."
There was a little silence, then
Lincoln bent and kissed her again,
with almost passionate regret it
seemed.
"Well, don't tell her yet" he said.
"Don't tell anyone till I say that you
may. We must have everything
fixed up first."
Linda agreed readily to Lincoln's
suggestions.
"It will be much nicer to keep
our engagement secret for the pres
ent." he urged fondly. "Something
which only you and I know about.'
He broke off sharply, turning his
head, as there was a footstep out
side the front door and the sound of
a latchkey.
He moved away from Linda an
grily. "I thought Mrs. Johnson was not
coming back tonight? he said
sharply.
Linda nodded, flushing In con
fusion. "I thought so, too. She told me
so."
But It was Mrs. Johnson, for at
that moment the door opened and
she came into the little hall.
She looked rather pale and
breathless, as if something had hap
pened to upset her, and she stood
for a silent moment looking at them
before she closed the door behind
her.
Linda began hurriedly to tidy her
hair; she felt confused and shy; she
was sure that Mrs. Johnson would
guess now that Andrew Lincoln
loved her; she waited with a fast
beating heart for him to speak.
But all he said was: "I thought
you were not co..ing back tonight?"
Mrs, Johnson met his angry eyes,
cooly, almost with defiance.
"I changed my mind," she said.,
She passed him, and went into the
little sitting-room, switching on the
light as she went.
"Did -you have a good time at
Brighton?" she asked carelessly.
"And will you stay to supper with
us?"
Lincoln did not answer; he stood
looking from Linda to the elder
woman with a strange expression in
his eyes, then he took up his ha
"I can t stay; thanks all the
same." He spoke Jerkily; he took
Linda's hand, and pressed It. "I
bhhW see you tomorrow," he added,
and without another ord of fare
well took his departure.
PROGRAM AT PARK
SCHOOL TOMORROW
A combination Washington and
Lincoln day program will be given
by pupils of Park school tomorrow,
Washington's birthday, at id : lb
o'clock in the morning. Mrs. W. J.
Entress will give a talk on Abraham
Lincoln and Mrs. Mary L. Pulkerson,
county school superintendent, will
speak on George Washington.
The complete program, to which
friends and patrons of the school
are invited, will be as follows: song,
"America ; " poem, "My Hero," by
Adelbert Henderson; exercise by
seven 3A children; exercise by Elma
Hudnall and Bobby Baker; "Why
Sambo Came Home," by Waterman
and Eddie Hamilton; "Washington"
by three 5 A boys; song by 3 A class:
flag drill by 1A and 2B pupils: talk
on Abraham Lincoln by Mrs. En
tress; recitation by Billy Lacey;
recitation by Gerald Cottew; song
by 3A pupils; Lincoln and Wash-,
ington sayings by 12 8th grade boys;
"Making a Flag," by four 5 A pupils: i
flag drill by 12 4A and SB pupils;!
song by first grade 'children; exer-j
else by four 3B boys; song by fourth, j
fifth and sixth grades; Gettysburg
address by sixth grade; dialogue by
Bernlce Fitzgerald and Mary Huns
saton; "Lincoln and Washington" by
Gaylord Miles and Delbert Grimes;
song by the sixth grade; talk on
George Washington by Mrs. Fulker-
son; minute by eight boys and eight
girls of the 5A class; song, "Amer
ica, the Beautiful."
After the program school will be
dismissed for the day,
COUNTY WORKERS
GET INSURANCE
Traveling Auditor George Woods
of the Industrial accident commis
sion spent some time at the court
house yesterday going over the rec
ords of employes for the purpose of
gathering daU under the new law
going Into effect January 1, placing
all county employes engaged in haz
ardous occupations automatlcal'v
under the workmen's compensation
act
While the law was passed by the
last legislature it did not become ef
fective until January 1. All county
employee. In the state engaged In
hazardous occupations are tuiecwa
by the act
Mr. Woods told County Clerk Boy
er that the cost to the county will
be $2.45 a thousand dollars on the
payroll, this, however, affecting on
ly the payroll of the employes to be
covered by the operations of the law.
Employes aitected will not be cler
ical or regular officials, but only
those engaged in employment where
dingerous factors enter In, such as
in road work, bridge construction or
other kind of building operations.
While he made a resume of the
books and payrolls yesterday, he has
as yet made no report on the ap
proximate number of employes like
ly t come under the provisions of
the act, or could he give any ap
proximate estimate ot the probable
annual cost to the county. i
Remote Tasmania is to have a
large .silk mill.
LOCAL INVESTORS !
LOSE IN FAILURE
Thirteen residents of Marlon and
Polk counties are listed among the
creditors of the defunct brokerage
house of Overbecke & Cooke, Port
land, In the schedule of bankruptcy
filed by the receiver in the federal
district court yesterday.
Those" creditors listed from this
section of the state are Dr. William
Cole, Charles Eppley, M. C. Halvor
scn, Louis Lachmund. J. F. Young,
and W. W. Looney, all of Salem; N.
G. Mickel of Mt Angel; John
Guthrie Silverton; Louise Miller,
Jefferson; E. T. Pierce, Aumsville,
and Dclmer L. Powers and H. Zim
merman, Aurora,
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