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m 1l: - - Issued . Daily Except Monday by i4 ; THE OTATKSMAX PUBUSHlNa COMPANY .'''-' 215 S. Cum mercial St., Salem, Oregon r (Portland Office, 723 Board ot Trade Building.- Phone Beacon 1193) .. " i MKSItiKP OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS " t- The Associated rjeis is exclusively entitled to the use for publi cations! all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. : R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone Frank Jaskoskl .TELEPHONES: . Business Office - - - -Circulation Office - - - -Society Editor - T .'" Job Department ; - ' - ' Entered at the Poetoffice In Salem, SUING FOR 350 MILES OF NEW OREGON RAILROAD; . ' " BIGGEST CASE OF ITS KIND EVER FILED L'nGer the authority vested in the transportation act of 1920, the Interstate Commerce Commission can order the con struction of railroads into new territory or into territory not properly served ; provided that the proper showing is made that public service demands it, and that the extensions will not impair the road's ability, to pay a fair return ;on its in vestments. This is not a guarantee of railroad investments; it merely demands that the railroads serve the people accord- . jnjr to ineir cnazxers as duduc s a. ai i x v i ? W vy requiring mat a proper snowing oi ousiness pe maae De fore the roads can be ordered built. The act goes farther in that it' empowers the commission to refuse to allow rival roads to do foolish, competitive building that self-evidently ' can hot pay-4ike the great suicidal railroad war between the . U.iP.-and the Hill roads up the Deschutes canyon'a few years f rro.-.- ; v. -! ; :''.,-, .4 :. ' - -Balancing these two powers, the act seems a remark . liy statesmanlike enactment; as between forcing roads to l'l)uild for the pubUc;c6nyenienc;erand refusing to allow them to run" hog-wild over a. .bit of personal pique and building - jealousy, it seems a truly Solomonic law; j Under the first clause of this act, the Oregon Public Service Commission has brought suit before the interstate body, to demand the - building of about 350 miles of central Oregon; and through them, .the whole people of the United States-whetheror not the roads are anxious to build -cow. ' ' : - - - - .Oregon has 30,000 square miles of territory as innocent cf railroads as the day the last Oregon volcano heaved its iast sigh, and the Columbia started to dig its channel to the seaJ l Some of this country is not much more than map-making material. But there is already about half a million acres under Irrigation, or ready to be put into irrigation inside of 1 Thin 1 To Po TheBo ys . , '. .. , : The Copyright, Associated Editors. Vhy and How an :"An airplane is able to keep, up ' because U does not stay on any one patch of air long enough, to ' -glrcthat patch -of air time enough . -.to let the plane sink. It is Just - like a rock, skipping oTer the wa ter. The rock doesn't sink because r it doesn't stay on one pari of the surface of the water long enough to get a chance to sink. Both the ' rock, and the airplane must have . speed to stay alift. The upward pressure of the air -i ' on the wings is one factor which 'holds the airplane aloft, but not ' the greatest factor. The wings ot the plane are curved, or cambereo and as they enter the air at a high rate of speed, some peculiar .) things happen to the air. One of . these Is the creation of a -power-. i ! ful vacuum at the rear, or trail ing edge, of each wing.- This vac uum is the most powerful lifting ; force about the airplane, and the ........whole machine is constantly bouyr ; ed up in its aUempt to 'rise and destroy this vacuum. TVute Must Slide Easily : r Everything possible is done to i let the, plane slide, through the . i !j mm i I THE SHORT STORY, JR. I . iLMTEXIXG IX. i . -. t -. u -j Marie could repeat ev'ry word ; Of the strange conversation j she , ' heard; ' ;'; . . "How romantic,, Ihe signed r As she dreaniOy tried . -jTe picture Jut what had ecarrrO. Marie's eyes opened wldelher breath came In excited little gasps. he crouched low beside the hedge straining every nprve to hear what was going on on the other side. She had completely forgotten that she was eavesdropping. "Sweetheartv-you have made me ery . happy. We will bo mar ried Monday. Your father will be gone, so he can't object." . Marie had to grab the hedge for support. How horribly thrlll ' ing! I She recognized the voice of " ; J THT3 OREGON STATESMAN. SAl,fcM. OREfiON - - Manager - Managing Editor J Manager Job Dept. 23 583 10C 583 Oregon, as second class matter. A: servants, ana it protects mem a .. i m a a a railroad to serve eastern and and Girls Newspaper Bigseet little Paper Is the World f -I - "Airplane ; Fiics air as, easily as possible and with I little resistance. To am in mis. practically every exposed : part! f i an airplane is streamlined. , A man flying.. an airplane has to keep its' nose ' from' wobbling up or down, has to keep the wing3 from tilting up or down, and must see that the plane does not skid. He has a set of two controls to do this. . . - i 1 -V', One. of these controls is the rud der bar which he works with his feet and which governs the action ot the rudder and aids the plane In making turns, with the assis tance of the ailerons. . Joy Stick Is' Control .... The other : control is Uhe . joy stick, which comes up between the flyer's knees and which he work3 with his left hand, as a rule. Mov ing this stick forward or backward sends the plane down or s up -forward, down;! backward, up. Mov ing this stick to the right or left controls the ailerons and will send the plane over on its side right side if the stick ia 'moved to the right; left ; side if -the stick Is moved to the left." ' r i . :ft r hi m i ii . A ill A t ',;iJ..'i:,j.;.ri5M their minister's son. Through the hedge she could see him bending over the fair young Miss Good hart; who lived next door. And they were going to be mar ried! It Was .too exciting foi words. :; She knew . no one f ever suspected such a thing. The cou ple slowly fot up and moved away. "We'll have -to gojgjefe Florence now," . Miss Goodhart said. 'Here's where she comes In." : What usder the sun did they want with j Florence Pratt, Mario wondered, j She finally decided they were going to confide in her and she would help them to ar range the wedding, j She would be the only one jlhey would telli Suddenly MarleV hands went to- her biirnlng face in shame. What : had she been thinking about? Here she had been de- liberatelyllstehing to a conversa tion that was not meant for' her. Oh. how terrible she was! r, She sneaked Into the house with burn ing cheeks. " j She was glad no one was- at home, so the was not attempted to tell hefexciting news. She sat down to think what it Was best for her to do. What would her mother ?ay"ff she found out iiow she discovered it? . ... i;. ''ni --4ut how could she, erer wait till 1 T " ' v ? Ami -why iff 1 ther trSfo II mm one or two years. The country.has reached the limit of its powers, until it gets transportation. ; They can't raise crops that they can't get to market; they are at the absolute end of their rope. They must have transportation; with which they will be ready to absorb thousands of people into the splendid business of producing food for the world. The tim ber resources to be tapped by these roads are almost beyond measure. Col. Greeley, national forester, estimates that within the next five years Oregon will be called upon to quad ruple her present lumber production; and much of this pro duction must be the yellow pine of the east slope of the Cascades, served by these projected roads. It's time to get to work, for the whole world is calling Oregon. It is not possible that any comprehensive plan for state development can meet the approval of every locality, every interest. If any one big agricultural or lumbering center could have a monopoly of the new service, it would be human to desire it so, and let the next locality starve. But the com mission, considering all Oregon as on an exactly equal basis, can not play favorites. i -v . i ; ... . It has studied out a comprenensive pian may ervc mc timber interests of practically the whole eastern siope oi ,ine Cascades; of every important irrigation district; of the great f rvV ran cp territory" fhoro is mineral wealth there, commission could hardly withdraw a foot of its present de mands, if it is adequately to serve the state as a whole. j The hearing comes on at Portland, August 10. The com mission has gathered an immense amount of statistical ma terial showing what Oregon really has and is. It will be a magnificent presentation of a vast portion of a magnificent state; a section that has been neglected, despised, outraged, but that has the possiDimies Oreeon. The case is the biggest of its kind ever tiled; line- " " . . -i,o ya mnst statesman-UKe, most humane. It ought to have Ml fcj. . , : ' v ; , .... 3 .-. : .- ;V-;-;.-. The attitude that Oregon should assume, was vividly presented by one of the boosters at Burns, where the State Commission held a meeting.:, They haven't a raUroadat Burns; they are gasping for the transportation that wU save their Uves on a splendid irrigation project. But he said, replying to another man who told what Burns would get out onhTplani "For heaven's sake, forget this Burns gain, and think of all central Oregon. We've all got to stand for rail road deveCmeS as a whole, and help each other to make our country big enough to pay the men that serve us- No more of that stufr?It's goodTor our own town;' what we want il for ua all!"' How they cheered the speaker! ' All Oregon for, all Oregon, and raising grain and spuds and timber and steers for all the world to buy and .gW-r that is the story. All Oregon could produce the eyidenceto make the building order as certain as the dusk or the dawn. The new Salem hospital build ing must be finished and occupied. There must be no thought of giv ing up the task till it is done. I " Loads Of Fan i Edited by John M. Miller. , Fcter Puxzle Saji "By using the same three let ters in different order you can flu in the blanks in the following sen tence: 'When the fishermen haul ed in the there were only ' fish In it.' " ' , "You can change 'bed'? to 'cot in four moves, changing Only one letter at a time. For example, case, cast, mast, fast, fact." "If you put the same letter at the .beginning of the: following groups of letters, they will form a sentence: , aul idted olly's retty oaies." " , ' ' Answer to Today's Word? Puz zle: ; The two wordis are:" net, ten.:' ..' Answer to Today's Word Puz rle: To change "bed" to "cot:" bed, beg, bog, cog, cot . Answer to Today's Word Pus sle: "Paul picked Polly's pretty posies." f 1 ' it a secret? Why did they want to be married while Mr! Good hart was away? She was worried about it all week. But most of all she worried because she had done Something r she ' shouldn't. : Sht had listened in! iU-kil "-' Saturday night Marie went with her mother to a play given by the young people of the church. Some how she didn't enjoy- it much. She was surprised to see ' who the hero and heroine' were. Wouldn't the church people be astounded when thty knew .what she knew about them? She was only half listening when i suddenly some thing about the play struck her as vaguely familiar. v "Sweetheart," the hero was say ing, "you have made me very hap py." ? Marie heard no more. Be side her Mrs. Pratt 'was whisper ing to her husband, "Now. It's almost tinio for Florence to come In."- ' ., . - hip SoM PISH STOlUE f, were TRue. - - h that is still a national asset; ana n that too will be served. The ot jgwu uiiuiw , J .a. s - AAmoriMiiTiva t n u me uwsi w.- all Oregon back of it. The new hospital facilities are needed. It would be a disgrace to Salem to allow the thing to hang in the air. And if would be poor business, too. , . . " One thing about a third party is that it nearly always finishes so. Peru made .July 4 an official holiday. 'It is a courtesy to Uncle Sam, but holidays come easy South" America. . The worry about coming In con tact with the new counterfeit $1000 bills Is chiefly confined to daily newspaper reporters. , The "Slogan editor will show next Thursday that Salem is the best school town Jn the country If you can help, please hold up your nana. - The machines will no doubt help; but the wise flax growers Who have fields ready to pull arc not taking any chances. They are pulling it by hand, jj ' . Everybody in Salem now real! zes that there is good business in beauty; that The City Beaut I ful will be a, good, cijty to stay in and do business in. It will keep growing, and Its growth will be solid.. .Also, there -will be never ending Increase of business on account of the established fact that Salem is the bulb center of North America. Next week's Slo gan pages -will tell about the ad vantages coming to Salem because this city is an educational center. INVESTMENT COMPANIES At the time Mr, Crews took office as Oregon state compora- tion commissioner j several com panies were operating In Oregon engaged in the sale of installment savings bonds and similar secur Hies which appeared j to him to bring them within Jtne statute re gulating-building and loan asso ciations. ' . The first concrete case submit ted to this department under this administration was the plan of the Municipal Reserve , & Bond Co for a permit to dq business of a like i nature, and the department being of the opinlon,that this case as well as the others now doing business under a similar plan should be brought under the pro visions of the building and loan statutes, submitted that casa to the attorney general for his '' op inion with the foHowIng letter: June 1 9. 1923 "Hon. I. H. Van Winkle,, At torney General. State of Oregon- ! FUTURE DATES I : 1 . Jaltr 20, Friday Band roarert, ViHoB prk i- i f ? " Jnlv'22. Snnliy Union rhrr.-a errire Willsoi, part. July Jj, Weilnrsflj.-r AnnuI WUronsia , pirnir, fair ;rnoil. - . ' ' Jnlr 29. KundT l"ni-on etufh aerTlra, WilUon park. ' . July SO, Mnn!T trond Iptib of Will mm a. I.ar.i t. .nmtm .i-lliHil 4 Am I own- " ', ' . Aacaat 1 ! 29Xnanl .aaeaaipKaak af , Bor Scoata at' Caeca.. : ; f Aipt t- 9 stiwiwt faar J rills matcW -at Clackni tifta raa(a. fitptambaf 2 ta 2SW Orfoa atata tall. Dear Sir: This department has now under consideration the ques tion of supervision and regulation of several companies whose prin cipal business is the sale of in stallment savings bonds which mature at a fixed time to their face value in consideration of he payment ot regular lireiaiimenis. The companies in question all operate on a plan identical to the savings and loan plan amd are the following: The Municipal Re serve and Bond company, the Western Bond and Mortgage com pany, the - Columbia Bond and Mortgage .company, the Mortgage Bond company, all oi Portland. and the Investors Syndicate of Minneapolis. "Section No.j 6948. Olson's Or- egon Laws, provides that The name building and loan associa tion shall include all corporations J . doing' a savings or loan or investment business on the build ings' society plan whether mutual or otherwise, and whether issu ing Icertitificates of stock; which mature at a time fixed in advance ...it or not. ' j "In Tie w of the fact that the plan of operation of all the above mentioned companies is the same, the ! law : applying to onej would apply to the: others. For this reason I am submitting! to you for your consideration the- prelimin ary i statement ot the; Municipal Reserve .and Bond company to gether with all papers pertaining thereto and request that you fur nish . me with your opinion . as to the following questions: ' j ,. "1. Is the plan of the Munlc- Ipal Reserve .and Bond company to be . considered as an ! investment business on the building society of Sec. Laws? plan, within the meaning No. 6948, Olson s Oregon "2. Should the Municipal Re serve and Bond company; be su pervised and controlled jby this department as a savings and loan association?. i'1 j "For your Information I am submitting herewith a copy of the report of Mr. Jay Morton, audi tor of this department, j on the matter above questioned. ! which fully described the plan of opera tion of the company In Question. Respectfully submitted, ! "W. E. CREWS," Corporation Commissioner." Thereafter, on the 16th" day of July, 1923, in a very elaborate and carefully considered opinion. the attorney general submitted to the corporation department- his conclusions where he held as fol lows: , ' j - L"It is my opinion that (the busi ness proposed to be transacted by Mutual Reserve and Bond com pany brings It within the! scope of Section 69.48, Oregon Laws, and that said corporation should not be permitted to do business in this state upon the plan1 Indicat ed by the documents submitted with its application until it has; complied with the statutes of this: state relating to building! and loan associations and savings jand loan; associations, and that, when it has complied with such: statutes, it will be authorized to transact such business only in the manner provided for the transaction of business , by ; such associations, which does not include the right; to issue bonds . or Investment cer tificates 'which mature it a time fixed iu 'advance or to transact! business on any other than a mu-f tual plan provided by utes.',. -"'. " ,. said st'atl The " interests of tae people of the .state of Oregon are concerned in this atter, in this way: They are entitled to have their - investments in. j sach eej-' curities conserved andt protected n every reasonable possible way. But a hardship may be worked upon Oregon investment concerns doing a legitimate and safe busi ness, though issuing certificates maturing at fixed times, if there is no vay to allow them, under present laws, to continue to issue such certificates. If present stat utes do not cover ' the matter, a new one ought to be nacted at the next session of the legislature;. There .certainly should be a vir found to allow sound home in vestment companies tc do' busi ness; and still permit the corpor ation commissioner to have strict supervision over their (operations and this .latter statement ap plies with especial strength to the foreign investment concerns doing business in Oregon. 1 CAUSES OF CRIME ; Statistics for the pasi ten yeats show that 85,000 murders haje been committed during this period in ihe United States. Every hour during ' the year someone is as sassinated, the proportion - being one out of every 12,00(1 men who die by the murderer' jHatjd. In this we have the unenviable dis tinction of leading the civilized world in' the ratio of sjaylngs, as in Europe 4he figure stands' at one murder for every 634,000 In habitants. ' "t , " i' The causes of the murders are many, but criminologists lay h$T FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1923j greatest .blame at the public's door. Technicality and sentimen tality are the chief foes of law and order, they maintain, and the assassin knows when be commits his crime that these two assets Will be of tremendous value in saving him from the gallows and In many cases from long confine ment in prison. Also modern psychoanalysis is blamed -for rais ing in the minds of the people the idea that the criminal is mental ly deficient and therefore irres ponsible, and as a result he is not infrequently let loose on the community to commit ' further crimes. j Commenting on this situation. Sir Basil Thomson, the former Chief of Scotland Yard, remarked tjiat the number of police em ployed in American cities in pro portion to their population ' is much smaller than considered sa fe in European countries. The agents of the law are so over worked that it is impossible for them to take adequate steps look ing toward crime prevention, : In which branch of police ' activity the Egnlish and continental for ces excel. 1 Then, too, according to Sir Basil, the "ordinary prac tice In some American cities seems to be that when 'the newspapers lose their interest in a case the police allow if to drop. They are so much overworked that they have no option." The result ! Is that the malefactors feel reason ably safe in their criminal pur suits, as such a staggering number of murders attests. BULLFIGHTING PASSES The name ot Spain is associat ed with toreadors and bullfights. But, according to a Madrid news paper,. the glories of the bull ring are departing and the popular In terest in this 6port has waned. The Spanish public has turned enthusiastically to i. new and bloodless sport, the "American game of baseball., The Madrid writer hails this as a victory for the moralist forces in Spain. The best' Spanish auth ors have been waging a wordy campaign, against bullfighting for a decade or more, because of the brutalizing effect on the audien ces. The high cost of living lent a helping hand, also. ' Matadors began demanding tremendous and ever-increasing slaries, causing admission prices to ascend beyond the reach of most purses, and the public turned to cheaper amuse ments. Those who paid the ex orbitant prices for tickets felt themselves cheated, as the Hu mane Society usually took a hand In the proceedings. ' eliminating r SUM1M1EI5L (Sh ! JD) Vicious .. j v . a everything the name Ton will find TRYE'S DELICIOUS BACON as fine as FRTE'S DELICIOUS HAM. The best part of the bacon side Is used to produced it. v It v is economy ' to buy a whole FRTE'S DELICIOUS HAM. And yon save money when yon buy FRTE'S DELICIOUS BACON by the FRYE & l 7 thOBe gory details that formerly held the spectators enthralled. The bull's horns were wrapped and scarcely a drop of blood was shed: Under such circumstances we have the word of the Spanish writer that the performances of the brave toreador cavorting ar ound a harmless bull had a sus picious resemblance to the com edy of Charlie Chaplin. . . Not all of the Spanish public Is pleased with the passing of the bull ring, however. .SOme lament it as the -death knell of the old fighting spirit that , once led the Conquistadores over the seas ; to subjugate a new world. But the majority- feel that it Is - a step upward and will do much to im prove the "reputation of Spain In the eyes of foreigners who have been repelled by the brutality " of bullfights. ' . . GOLDEN DOOR KNOBS When the s. in of an Illinois dog-catcher bough three brewer- ies people were mildly Interested When he built .a palace, bearing golden door itnobsj they became downright suspicious. ; , He also had a fleet oJ five limousines with platinum trimmings - and he had almost priceless rugs dangling on his walls. .. No wonder the old crowd looked, on with amazement. Now the. internal revenue collect or has dropped in with a demand for some 8300,000 of evaded in come tax and the prohibition en forcement officers are checking up the breweries. He Is accused of making real beer in three brew eries and supplying it to a large section of the state. - He seemed to have political protection 'and he was on his way to getting all the money in the world. But he developed social aspirations.' He was blackballed by a club in Jollet and got revenge by buying the building in which the club had long been housed and turn ing It Into the street. Then came the house With the diamond-studded door knobs 'and with it the visits of the government officials.' If ' he had been content to run his three breweries and remain an unassuming .bootlegger he might . now be merely . one of the world's richest men instead of a defendant in various actions brought by the government- The society Dug was his downfall. So f This young ; "camp cook" knows that she has. a pleasant surprise in store for the members of the evening picnic party when she serves them cold baked FRYERS DELICIOUS HAM. ; She knows . because at home Mother h3 given the family a similar su prise and has told her that FRYE'S DELICIOUS 'is the Very best ham you can buy!'. FRYE'S DELICIOUS HAM is young, tender, grain fed pork, cured and smoked in hardwood smoke after the Frye process which preserves the mild rich flavor and retains the line natural juieesa ' COMPANY There are some things that even ' Jollet, will stand. . "A:., them is -a dog-catcher with en door knobs on his castle. THE HOURGLASS RUN'S After Justice Clarke, had r. signed from the supreme cc bench the president Is underst to have offered the appointic to Senator Underwood, who I been a close friend during all i Washington ; career. But t southerner , believed the era: was not his destiny and declf: the honor. , Now it looks as : Underwood himself . would be i serious ! contender with Hard! for the presidency. It is belleT however, that the friendship n:; survive the strain. ' I FROM MISSOURI ; Secretary Denby of the t department has'1 found the per" .aliAn - Tn mnro than twpnl, . - ft - n f j -he slIghtesi; lnfractloa the regulations. He has al? been where he was wanted i never a :moment late for any-1 or assignment. Perhaps the 1 that he was born in the towa Liberty had something to do : It.' He never got liberty confc with Ucense. He was born Liberty, Missouri. ; BIG ADERTISERS The government is the natl; best advertiser. During the 1 four years the war departm alone has spent nearly S2.000.r In newspaper advertising and 1 got rid of supplies and mater: left over from the war that t something like 82.000.000.C Advertising seems able to in almost anything from a -whf barrow' to the greaf pyram'd. Wear Glasses A well-dressed r woman v wont to step In a departm store. ' The clerks would appro her, asking her what she want and. her answer always was, J looking," ' One day a clerk more br than' the rest, approached her i on getting the usual reply, sa! "Madam, if you will take t elevator in the Union Cent building and go to the top fl you can see a great deal farthe For Coughs and Colds, Head -4 achef Neuralgia, Rheumatism and All Aches and Pains ALL DRUGGISTS 35c and 6Sc, jars and tubes Hospital sirs, $3.00 implies Mil 'h M