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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929
CapitalJiJournal
Salem, Oregon
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The Railroads Win
Many years of labor by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in placing a valuation upon railroads to be used as a
basis for rate-making have been nullified by the decision of
the supreme Court in the case of the St. Louis and O Fallon
railroad, a nine mile coal line in southern Illinois. This line
was selected to make a test case upon the methods employed
by the Commission in arriving at a valuation.
In determining valuations, the Commission apparently
refused to consider the present cost of duplication under
modern costs, including the unearned increment in land
values accumulated since the original investment. These
values must be considered, the Supreme Court rules "as an
felement of value recognized by the law for rate-making pur
poses," under the provisions prescribed by Congress.
The act requiring the valuation of railroad property was
the chief legislative accomplishment of the late Robert M.
LaFollette and fifteen years of time and $34,000,000
- have been spent in the appraisal. Refusal of Con
gress, after ordering the appraisal, to appropriate sufficient
money to conclude it, has delayed the work and hampered the
commission. Now they will have to revise their figures to in
clude present valuations, a' gigantic task in itself and requir
ing many years more of expert appraisals all of which will
probably be similarly contested by litigation.
It was LaFollette's idea to get at the real investment in
the railroads and squeeze out the water so as to secure a base
upon which to fix rates to return a reasonable profit to the
railroads. But the Supreme Court in effect holds that the
' railroads are, entitled to interest upon what reproduction
.would now cost as well as investment costs.
As a result, the public wi!lvprobably be called upon to
pay higher freight rates based upon the increased value of
the railroads caused by growth and development of the
country, which will probably run into the billions. The ques
tion of what the traffic will bear, will probably prevent much
increase in rates for higher rates will divert more traffic to
highways and waterways, and so defeat their purpose.
The decision was a five to three one, Justices Holmes,
Brandies and Stone dissenting and Justice Butler not partici
pating, Justice Brandies stating:
The commission believed it could act only on proof . . . and that to
assign, under the circumstances, any weight to the evidence of 'recon
struction cost' would be mere conje'eture. '
Control of the Press
In speaking in the Senate yesterday on the attempt of
power interests to purchase newspapers throughout the
country, and the success that has attended a few of these
attempts as established by the investigation of the Federal
Trades Relations Commission, Senator Norris of Nebraska
declared that "if the time comes when all the press is con
trolled by the power trust or by big business, there is no
other position for free people to have than to have the gov
ernment take over the press."
Senator Norris is a Progressive, and a Progressive is
one who believes that the government can cure all ills and
abuses and all that is needed to establish Utopia is to enlarge
the scope and regulating powers of the bureaucracy. All
the regulation needed for the" press, to nullify power and
other propaganda, is a requirement that the ownership, con
trol and affiliations of the newspaper, be printed daily, and
an informed public will duly discount the utterances, and
nullify its influence.
The proposed remedy is worse than the threatened af
fliction. Government ownership or control would be about
the worst thing that could happen, for the government is
neither fair nor impartial, is intensely partisan and plays
favorites. In addition it is inefficient, extravagant, waste
ful and incompetent. If politics does not dominate, red-tape
bureaucracy, which is worse, does. .
If Government controlled the newspapers, we would
have a partisan Republican press, or a partisan Democratic
press, dependent upon which party was in power and a rigid
censorship to discipline, regiment and standardize journal
ism to conform to the dominant party. The newspapers
would be of no more intellectual value to the people than the
gagged press of Italy under Mussolini or that of Russia
under the Communists.
Of all the many foolish things the power interests have
done, the most futile is the effort to buy up the newspapers
of the country. Following the effort to propagandize the
public school children, and service clubs and its lobby ac
tivities, no possible program could be promulgated so cal
culated to outrage public opinion and defeat the purpose in
view. The attempt lends color to the repeated charges that
an unscrupulous combination is engaged in ruthlessly at
tempting a monopoly of the power resources of the nation
for personal enrichment at public cost.
Junior High Schools
Here Wiil Graduate
342 Boys And Girls
Three hundred and forty-two Salem ninth graders will
complete their junior high school work June 7 and will be
ready to enter senior high school in the fall according to the
check-up made by Principal H. F. Durham of Parrish junior
high school and Mrs. LaMoine R. Clark, principal of Leslie
junior nign. scnooi. tiaiem scnooiv-
children do not "graduate" irom
' the eighth grade, the first definite
break from the elementary division
coming when Junior high work is
completed and promotion to the
senior high school earned.
No formal graduation exercises
will be held at the Junior high
schools but special attention will
be given the Leslie graduates at
closing exercises, Tuesday, June 4,
and at Parrish Junior high at a
closing assembly on the last day of
school, June 7.
Boys outnumber the girls In the
graduating classes at both Junior
highs this year. Parrish will grad
uate 140 boys and 112 girls. Leslie's
graduating Includes 46 boys and 44
0'rls.
Parrish Junior high school will
graduate the following: Oraydon
Adcock, Arlo Adlard, Aaron Ander
son, Lawrence Anderson, Paul An
derson, Robert Armprlest, Gordon
Backc, Chester Banta, Elmer Bar
kus, Ralph Barnes, Victor Barth,
Cecil Bartniff, Delbert Blbby, James
Blckfor, Thomas Biuinglsey, Laur
ence Blalsdell, Albert Boardman,
Jack Bowden, Tom Bowden, Mich
ael Burger Orval Cameron, Ray
mond Cates, George Causey, Daniel
Church, Kenneth Clark, Kenneth
Coffey, Donald Collins, Edwin Co
omler, Roy Crabb, Troy Crabb,
Albert Cribbens, Claude Cross. Wen
dell Cross, Edwin Cutler, Donald
Doerfler, Wayne Daughton, John
Dunlavy, Billy Dyer, Howard Elli
ott, John Evans, Harry Eyerly, Fred
Pagg, Gilbert Faxon, Kenneth Fll
slnger, Norman Fletcher, George
rorgara, uienn fox, Artnur Franke,
Ewald Franz, Glenn Gallaher, Paul
Gibson, Leonard Gilbert, Walter
aruenieider, Darren Guthrie. Rich
ard Hall, Ingvard Hansen, Donald
Hatch, Marvin Hettick, Emery Hob
son, Edwin HoffneU, Robert Hulst,
Tuggy Itow, WlrWenks. Eldon Kin
ton, Virgil Kinton, Virgil Kubln,
Bradford Lee, Daniel McCarthy,
James MCKenney, Donald Magee.
Lewis Melson, Ralnh My ers. Rldi-
ley Miller, Howard Mills, Waldo
Mills, George Mlltonberger, Gerald
Minton, Donald Moore, Kenneth
Morgan, Ray Morrow, Harold Muhs,
Earl Mulkey, Ralph Nelson, Fred
Noeskl, Harold Norton, WUbur Ol-
sen. Macarlo Padilla, Gordon Peters,
Jack Poulln, Delta Powell. Dlonlslo
Ramos, Delmer Ramsell, Thern
Randall, Elwood Raymond. Gerald
Reed, Fred Reldy, Emory Relts, AI-
Dert Kicnarson, Charles Roberts,
Francis Roddy, Roy Rutschman,
Edward Ryan, Stewart Sawyer,
Edward Schunke. Mason Shutt.
BIU Skewis, Glen Smith, Lawrence
Smith, Gordon Sternberg, Kenneth
Stuart, Roy Sturdavant, Donald
Sugai, James Summers, George
Tandy, Frank . Terusakl Oordon
Tonkin, Wallace Tower, Melvln
Travis, Robert Tweed, Melvln Van
Cleave, Reginald Vosburgh, Theo-
uore waioerg, uaymond Wallace,
Homer Welty, Charles West, Els
worth Wetherby. Oordon Whlttlmr-
ton, Clyde Wlcgand, Robert Wlens,
Lyle Wilbur, David Williams, Fred
Williams, George Williamson, Earl
Wlntermute, Donald Woodry, Rob
ert Wygant, WUllam Yarnell, Maz
Morgan, Bernard Thompson, Wal
ter wiens.
Dorothy Alexander, Lois Allen.
Mildred Anderson, Dorothy Apper-
son, uoris Armstrong, velma Arm
strong, Eva Arnold, Leondine Aspin
wall, Eula Bailey, Helen Benner,
Donna Bishop, Esther Black, Eliza
beth Benncll, Dorothy Bowen, Lily
Burch, Margaret Burdette, Beatrice
Burton, Nadlne Cameron, Charlotte
Carrau, Ethel Chapman, Amanda
Clark, Marguerite Clark, Josephine
Cornoyer, Louise Cramer, Susie
Vries, Olivia DeVrles, Eva Doner
Lapp, Gertrude DeVoe, Evelyn De-
dred Hill, Albert Hobble. Doris
Arlie Dorrance, Emily Downey, Vera
Faulkner, Gretchen Gamer, Ella
Garrison, Esther Glbbard, Thelma
Gillette, Stella Golden, Helen dos
ser, Zora Greener Marion Gregg,
Phyllis Gunsley, Florence Gunston,
Rosa Lee Hadnot, Cella Halliwill,
Esther Hansen, Clara Harms. Phyl
lis Hauge, Suanna Hawkins, Mil
dred, Hill, Alberta Hobble, Doris
Hogg, Dorothy Holly, Naomi Horn
schuch, Miriam Jewett, Loretta
Kahler, Lillian Kayseiy Ruth Ken-
ArvtUa Kubln, Jane Kuhnke, Char
worthy, Evelyn King, Violet Kruger,
lotto LaDsw, LucUe Lea, Anna, May
Lewis, Kathleen Llndbeck, Pearl
Loken, Madotyn McKillop, Margaret
Mag M, Esther MarKina, Hazel Ma
son, Faith Mattsort, Elda Medler,
Leona Orey, Marie Patton, Alice
Peters, Lillian Peters.
Lola Pickens, Dellma Poulln.
Marguerite Raymon, Leora Redfern,
Karlene Rice, Edna Rtffey, Lucille
Rolow, Elsie Rose, Dorothy Ruecker,
Garnett Rundel, Marjorle Sanders,
Virginia Schmidt, Mary Sehorn,
Marlon Slewert, Grace Skinner,
Mary Slick, Alvena Smith, Wllmetta
Snider, Jean Snyder, Erna Thomp
son, Helen Thompson, Theresa Ul
rich, Doris Unruh, Jeryme Upston,
Doris VanPelt. Elizabeth Vaughan.
iLillian Vincent, Virginia Wassam,
Eunice Wenlock, Ruth West, Mar
Jorie Wilson, Velma Woelk, Clara
Wyatt, and Margaret Zlellnskl.
90 LEAVING LESLIE
Leslie Junior high graduates In
clude the following: Edward An
derson, Berten Atkins, Carl Bar
nett, Grover Bellinger, Jay Bertel
son, Perry Brown, Willis Caldwell,
Everett Clark, Thad Clayton, Frank
Cross, Dwayne Duncan, Glenn Fis
cher, WlUls Gocbel, Glenn Golf,
Delbert Graber, Kendall Grover,
Millard Groves, Bertrum Halseth,
Rodney Hardman, Paul Hauser,
Billy Hemenway, Robert Johnson,
Boyd Lynn, Claude Martin, John
Maxwell, Karl Neuenschwander,
Lorenzo Otjen, Harold Pearce, Leo
Purvlne, James Reed, George Ruck
er, John Saul, Jlmmie Schon, fPaul
Shater, Sidney Shaw, Conrad'' Sle
wert, Lloyd Stetnke, Donald Stock
well, Robert Sturgess, Raymond
Turnfdge, George Usui, Clinton
Vincent Floyd Waltz, Stanley Wil
kinson, Victor Williams and 'Rex
Morris.
Lucille Blngenhelmer, . Marie
Bone, Constance CartmlU, Laurel
Clayton, Jessie Cooper, Ruth Dake,
Carol Dasch, Aleen Day, Ruth
Falk, Laura Flagg, Leora Gerlg,
Echo Hall, Helen Hansen, Betty
Mae Hartung, Vilhelmina HJalmson,
Eupha Humphrey, Katherlne Hut
cheon, Alice Hysler, Josephine Jaeg
ler, Helen Keudell, Dorothy Krebs,
Alice Lambert, Vivian Lanktree,
Louise Macklin, Irma Martin, Doris
McCalllster, Marguerite McCarty,
Agnes Moore, Frieda Morley, Lulu
Beth Naxan, Ruby Neer, Myrtle
Pearsall, Letha Polk, Myrtle Rlne-
hart, Catherine Skelton, Arlene
Smalley, Margaret Smart,, Roberta
Smith, Lucille Stammen, Leona
Stover, Helen Taylor, (Dorothy
Tucker, Charity Watson and Mar
garet Williams.
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ODOM BIDS LOW
FOR CONTRACT
ON 1 5THSTREET
P. L. Odom. contractor who Is
now building the South Church
street bridge, whs the successful
bidder at the council meeting Mon
day night for construction of the
North 16th street bridge. His bid
was $7612.93. There were two other
bids. Ridgan Brother sof Wood
burn bid $7645 and P. L. Frailer of
Salem, $6060.
On motion of Alderman Dancy,
chairman of the committee on fire
and water, the city recorder was
instructed to advertise for bids for
the construction of a fire house at
the North Salem sub-station. Dan
cy stated that no progress could be
made at present on the South
Salem station because of lack of
funds.
The recorder was authorized to
advertise for bids on another
$100,000 block of dty aewer bonds.
With $300,000 of to total author
ized $900,000 already sold, expendi
tures to date total $318,383.04, This
expenditure covers the actual con
struction of sewers and purchase
of sewer materials, and In addition
to that numerous incidental items,
Including hardware and tools, ma
chinery, repairs, freight and legal
services. The question came up in
connection with the situation on
South Rural avenue. Alderman
Vandevort, chairman of the sewer
committee, said that the city was
all ready to pave the street, but
that It has no sewers, that there
was no money to put In the sew
ers and that It was necessary that
the sewers be built before the street
Is paved.
The street - committee reported
favorably on petitions for the pav
ing of Royal street, Kearney street
irom Liberty to High, and Ford
street from Mill to Simpson.
Relative to a protest against the
assessment for the Improvement
of Wlllson street the committee re-
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Ladd & Bush Trust Co.
ported that the protest came In
too late.
The police committee reported
favorably on the proposed estab
lishment of a two-hour parking
limit on Liberty street between
Trade and Ferry and City Attorney
Williams was instructed to bring
In the necessary ordinance.
A resolution came in irom tne
planning commission providing for
a "no reverse turn" sign at Front
and Center streets and for four
"slow" signs at the intersection of
Market and Brosdway. Alderman
Kowlts and Townsend said ordin
ances would be necessary to make
these regulations enforcable, but
the council was of contrary opinion.
A petition was received for the
paving of Oxford street from 12th
to 13th and another for the vaca
tion of Pine street from Front to
the Willamette river. Petitions
were received from T. M. Hicks and
the Oregon Oravel company for
the vacation of several parts of
streets.
City Engineer Rogers was auth
orized to level High street at the
new High street bridge.
An ordinance was Introduced to
change the name of Waller street
In Brooklyn addition to Adams
street
Mayor LIvsley announced the
appointment of Alderman Wilkin
son on the band, public buildings
and ordinance committees, Alder
man O'Hara as chairman, of the
ordinance committee, and Alderman
Slmeral on the committee on brid
ges and approaches, all fill placea
held by former Councilman Wen-deroth.
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