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Part Three Pages ;T to 3 t SEVENTYtFOURTH year SALEM. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. M AY 11, 192,4 PRICE FIVE CENTS i t , 1 r i' ' 'I' 5 5 i U-. t MY MOTHER By DWIGHT Those of us who hare passed beyond the 'teens : and . the twen ties can easily remember that per iod when .every well-regulated family hung embroidered mottoes on the walla of living room and , bedroom." We recall them with an indulgent smile "God Bless Our Home;", "Remember Thy Youth;" jor a decorative border of white "flowers and within them the meaningless phrase, "Consider the JJlles." Even now we occasion ally find one hidden away in the home where sentiment for the past outweighs modern Ideas of household furnishing. "' I have Inherited the motto habit from.jnjr forebears, sufficiently to liave .pasted, on, the .inner, door of jny office one sentence which I picked up : somewhere several years ago and : could - not forget. There It remains, a sweet and sat isfying reminder of the first 'and finest of human relations. , When God made out Mo t ther He didn't do anything else the rest of the day but sit around and feel happy. That expresses my mother too. perfectly for me to pass it by. ln my Job, as In every man's Job.- : (there are times when one Is temp Ited to take steps which fall below the avtrrag of decent living. It . is invigorating at such times to flock up and see those short lines 'staring me in .the face. If the -'coming of my mother . Into 'the world made God happyand I , 'know it did I would be working fat cross-purpose with Him if I did ' anything to spoil her hapiness or Seven secretly to be disloyal to her .hopes and .ldeali for me. And what my mother Is to me your 'mother Is to 'you the best gift ;';God baa ever'glven you.' Out of 'the Very pangs with which she "brought you to birth has sprung a jove that knows no. limitations and : that asks but one favor that you may live a", life worthy of her 'dreams ,and s her prayers. J t My mother was called one of Troy's "prettiest girls "When she 'was young. . She still preserves ; the petite, winsome . personality I and the cheery smile of youth, un touched by the years that have ! crowded her hea'awtti grey?an(d i .j, . . Countess, WLzvf Tfcavr Sler, Named in Modica Diyorcs Cue by Wife Who Sued Her for $500,000 Urn Kradeftse Helen Modica of Brooklyn, who reoently sued the Coonteaa . Boawr de Periny for bait a minion doDan damaces al leging elienatle. of her lrasbaBds affections, has begrra suit for ' absolute diTorea, t najxtina- - the counteas as eorrespoDdent. The kuabaad, Bmanuel -Victor Modica. ; a young aotomoblle salesman of Newark. N. .was served with Berry, Growers 1IACKALL PAIXE BERRY BASKETS AKD CRATES Are now being; shipped to all parts la the Northwest. Ventilated Boskets and Crates Monev Prevent ' Duuun -Allow Iaspectioa Order VAIICOUJTIR, MARVIN slowed her step. But it is not looks that make mothers. It is something, more than ,the outward apearance. Somemlnor poet has spoken beautifully of a mother's hands: Rough. bands they were. Toil-worn and brown. But not a stain on them To soil the crown ! ! i ' i ; . - Another has written of her i i Kindly eyes, and Hps grown softly sweet, with murmured blessings over steeping babes. Xo,-it is not her looks. She may not have the loveliness of a queen, but' she Is more than a queen.1 She' may not have, the dash of a modern girl, but she has Infinitely j more solid worth than most; modern girls I have seen. She may stand In th shadows of life's background, but those with eyes can see about her a nimbus of flame that, sheds its beams Jnto the darkest corner and makes it light. j ; - .Are we fa ir- to our mothers? They ask bo little of us that we become accustomed to giving them little. But so great Is their pride and their, love that even the little means much to them. Why is it that the greatest pictures and the greatest statues in the world speak of us of a holy motherhood? Why does the most exquisite' glory of our religion center about the vis ion of a Mother and Child? Be4 cause there is In motherhood something divine. It is for us to have a part in .that divinity by striving to be to our mothers sometimes what our mothers al ways are striving to be to us. .-' Twenty years ago a novel was published, "The Garden of Allah," which was the best seller of the year. I read it several , times, but there is little in it I remember except ; this single sentence.: ?I think the devil fears a. good mo ther -more than many saints." I agree with that sentiment; for there are no saints more sacrific ing than, our mothers.; They have no limits in the demands on high heaven for their children; and they will tlo, verythoin; - wtthto papers In the dlvorse action as he entered ' the ' Brooklyn .. court to testify in . proceedings to win the custody of his 1 months old daughter. His plea was refused. Above (at top ) are shown Mrs.' Medico, with the fcaby.-an4 Modica At the bottom (at left) is Frank. P. -Walsh, -Mrs. -Modtca's attorney and at the -right Is the Count de Perlgny. : Attract Attention Sell Your Berries -Bring More Money Now VASIIINGTON if )V .... , -s." " Ji , j - r - their power to make the paths of thpse children straight : and true. Rddyard Kipling did not exagger ate Tery greatly when he wrote: If I . were drowned in the deepest , J; sea. j -i , : - I know whose love would come to ,,','me. 'j'"' j--,-- ' : . :. - : Mother o mine, oh, mother o - mine. - . . , If I" were damned in body and . soiil, I , X t V. ; I .know whose love would . make . me whole, , . Mother o'. mine, oh, mother o . 'mine.'' . I ' ' . : Yes," God Himself smiled - when He first t thought of mothers. I cannot .speak for yours, but I know; mine; and I suppose there is something akin . in ' them that makes them all members , of a mystical sisterhood of service and pi ,iaye. ,And J'anu jno-w oMi enough to realise Aomething of t;he standard pi character which my mother dreamed for me and pray ed ror me from the time I was a little lad. - Her whole - life has been, indeed, a dream and a pray er for' her children. What finer thanks can I give her than . by helping the good Ood to make that dream and that prayer come, true? Rotary Magazine. . Snow Blasted From Railway To Move Trains in Alaska FAIRBANKS. Alaska. April 25 -(By Mall) Snowsllde problems, on the government's Alaska ralN road present dificulties never en countered by transcontinental railroad companies during the milder winters In the States where rotary plows usually are enough to open the: roads. t ' In the latter part. of this' winter 600 kegs of black powder were used in a month on the Alaska railroad to remove an avalanche of snowj 71 miles from Seward, that had wrecked snowsheds and blocked traffic. The powder was exploded In the keg containers, in stead' of by the . former method of pouring the blasting material Into coyote noies. uas helmets were nsed by the men to enter the smoke filled snowsheds to place the kegs: In place for blasting. The final blast, which cleared the line of the last of the 100,000 yards of snow, consumed nearly two tons of powder. " ; ! In placing along the right of way, where plows failed to work successfully and where the snow -zaflrAP .-.excessively i deep, .steam was-employed. The steam pipes. leading1, from the rotary engine, cut paths through the snow. IndustriarRecovery of U. S. Amazes British Minister A LONDON, April , 24. (By Mail.) Americans are so numer ous and so rich in resources that they arej unable - to realize their wealth, is the opinion of Sir Mon tague Barlow, the minister of la bor in the Baldwin government, brought back from five weeks' visit to the United States. J Sir Montague told English re porters who met him at Southamp ton that be believed the recovery from the; Industrial depression in America was the most remarkable event of j modern Industry. He hoped that . Englishmen would scrutinize! the American recovery1 and the Present system of Industry as a basis for future English de velopment. ; . Sir Montague has returned with a sympathetic leaning toward re striction of the emigration laws, but he added, "with all the coun try's prosperity, there seems little Indication to extend a hand to ward the reconstruction and up building of Europe." j POLAND ENACTS LABOR LAW WARSAW, Poland. 'April 19. (By Mail.) The diet -has passed a vbill giving state protection to working women and minors. The bill Is based entirely on.the Wash ington labor convention, with a few additions due to local condi tions, such as prohibition of the employment of boys and girls un der 15, which is contrary to the Polish constitution. gprs ) ... J Yr7i"IT,7WT keep .away from eye glasses even YY VJl?lf!jJLll though their health suffers. Cor rect Jjbsses are never unbecoming. Just the lenses must meet perfectly the requirements of ypur eyes bo must the frames harmonize .with your personality. - i MORRIS OPTICAL ! SO 1-2-3-4 Oregon Bids;. ' -Dr. JSewry -E. -Morrii Dr, A. McCnlloch . BIOGRAPHICAL JJOTE. Stars of high standing are sel dom encountered nowadays. "Stars are born, . not i made' , to . para phrase a somewhat bromidic ex pression. Booth7 was born to the purple., " Likewise Irving, Mans field, Tree.- They had their strug gle's. 2 What person, .worth wb He, has not felt the spur and .sting of failure? -Irving knew, failure and even bankruptcy, after he had ap peared in several successes. Booth right at the zenith of Bis youthful career, saw fortune. crumble t and a temple of amusement (Booth's theater Jn New York) pass oat of his hands.' Mansfield .had 111 luck follow him for many years. Wal ker Whiteside's magnificent . rec ord as :' an t actor and producer should In years to come be noted alongajde the achievements .of any of the bg masters of the .theater. He has contributed to the stage a beautiful and powerful perform ance-of Hamlet His delineation Of Richard III, though departing from tradition, won great praise. Besides the many 'Spakesperian characters in which Whiteside ap peared there were many romantic roles in - which ;he rearned .a flne following. His superb performance of .-the young Jewish, immigrant, David Quixano, in .Zangwlll's great, play, '.The Melting Pot, was the sensation of America a,nd London, .Next .came- . his great characterization of the Japanese diploma t , Tpker amo, , t n "The , Ty-t phoob." Jn order followed' such wonderful delineations' as Wu Lt Chang Jn "Mr. Wu,M Rabbi Elken I n"The Little Brother," James Durie.in Robert -LOuis Stevenson's "Master of the Ballantrae." ' and Prince Tainar In the thrilling mys tery play, "The Hindu." ' During Mr. Whiteside's ' engagement . In this city he will appear in the won derful character of Wu Li Chang In the terrific Anglo-Chinese mel odrama, "Mr. Wu." Fire Will Wipe Out Relics Of Boom pays jn Mpntana GREAT FA?-tS. Mont. May lOfl Half a dozen mansions of -40 years ago, panelled still with the chipped and marred remnants of stained glass adhering to the win dows and the lines of : old land scape gardening, merging Into the surrounding , prairie two miles from this city, are to be burned. by -order of the state fire marshal These decaying1 reftci finance and romance of the eatrly days in Montana will be destroyed at the same time that the stack of the old silver smelter which was the excuse for their existence is dyna mited. ; .' . Since 1893. when silver ore from Canada, northern .Idaho and the long worked-out silver , mines of Montana ceased to flow to the prairie smelter, the mansions have been deserted. I 1 The old three-story brick build ings. Jn exterior and interior the equal of the . most elegant clubs of the Atlantic seaboard in those days .were erected by the promo ters of Montana's first smelter. In them were entertained capitalists of New York and Boston, brought to the west over the newly built railroads. On the polished floors of their ball rooms danced offi cers from Ft. Assiniboine and oth er frontier army posts which now are nothing but names. "Kindliest Man Alive" Now Becomes British Hangman MANCHESTER, -England, April 23. -(By Mail.) Williams Willis of Aarwlck, near here, who Is de scribed by his wife as "the kind liest man alive," is to be the new public execationer; to succeed John Ellis, who recently retired. Willis Is a native of Manchester, and has been assistant hangman or 20 years. .When he is not engaged In dispatching criminals to their doom, he works as an engraver. . "You would never I guess my husband was a hangman," his wife said. "He is the kindliest man alive." Train "Shell Shock", Is . ? New Commuters Disease - : (By Mall) 1 ' , LONDON, April 25. The dally Journey to town from, the more OUR AIElx JO SERVE FAITHFULLY AND UNFAILINGLY i Made possible by Wash Suits i CJrer Twist Popular styles In a nam- ber , of .good color '.com tiinatkms. They're inadej' of durable peggyf clothJ jean and other strong fabrics. Valoea ct $1M 2.25 Popular New Straw In the Season's Leading Styles Natural tan Japanese Barkalu braidl Hats with - flexible, comfort fitting brims. Black silk bands. Remarkable at Harvest and Garden Hats Boys' and tilths! Rfe tan Bluchers fcr Wcrk ai HardWear : r"y Vt i f nV' !- V distant suburbs leads in many in stances eventually to train "shell shock," . according' to medical ex perts. : ' ' v The injury develops very grad ually, and is caused by the sway f VI LJl 11 .ill If II 1 S-iS 4-75 160 North Liberty m en's and : the enormous purchasing pdwer and economical :- . -' our hundreds, of stores ?ilke of This Store , Your Kind of a Store : . "v-Onr aim : To serve well ! To serve -you well! A little "better in fact, than theTast time you called. To keep : on serving better and ; bet ter. . This we can dp as you " know us and we Jcnow you. better." : ' - - :v Co-operaHoA is the step-; ping stone; to mutual bene-' fit. Tell us your;needs. Tell : tts ja wbat way we can im prove otn-.; service. .' In Jins my, we;' can better meet ; yoar needs. ; ' We want this Store, to interest you became you have helped to make it your kind of a shopping place. Fancy Worsted Men's Dress Pants A variety of choice Stripes, checks and her- , ringbone weaves in the popular colors of brown, -blue and grey. Well made and ut full. 538 and $5.90 $ H .98 For Everybody Many -braids," many shapes Rah Rahs .for Children; Scouts for boys j . fancy ; and novelty k Hats - for girls ; and women ; large ahaped HaU, as illustrated, for men. 10c 25c Strongly made brown . blu cners.. 5xtt ti otes. - Hooks Soft tip, half . double and v eyelets.' 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