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i i 4 i , 1 THE OREGON. STATESMAN SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY. MORNING, JULY 1924 . L1V FJillMIIIGE ; PROBLEMS .;Adele ; Garrison's l " New Thase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE (Copyright, 1922 by Newspaper Feature Service Inc.) . CHAPTER, 217 THE HINT OF!'. THE MENACE MADGE'S FATHER DISCLOSED. fitef carefully,' Lillian admonished- in a whisper aa- weneared the little jog1In"ih..oiafcorridor behind which; y ,befU)iirary.door. , 'Let me guide yott.'J ,, - Shft grasped ri)ft- flwly by he arjii and stopped me J Us t he tore' we reached the dor.''- ".j. ri " rt :LIft each' fbdt before you set it'down as If you wte$tepplng ovfr ari obstruct ion (about ia foot high and si ImjhesJ Vwida," fheidl rected. -VThere, that's 5t. 'All right, Allen," as Mr. Drake noise lessly swung open the library door. '"We're here, and the' mine Is laid. Now well get down to business, and wait, until our little submarine strikes it." -r- Allen Drake and my. father were standing! with grave faces just inside the door of the library. In my father's hand was a book, one of a cherished set of his fa vorite essayists which had been privately bound for him. He evi dently had, just finished turning the leaves and his voice was grave, as he looked toward me and spoke pityingly. ' . '1 can . be . ' no mistake, iv ....I; '! ll"f "s 1 ' j i 1 ; 7' Daughter. . . I fastened . a memo randum carefully between these tiro-pages, sd that kiniy design, not i carelessness, could remove ft. And i is' gone!" ' 5 1 ' "You mean," I said slowly, "that Katie must have taken it." "Unless some person from out side the house haa had access to i this room," he returned. "Be sides, it was nothing any person would have taken I unless be or she " there was! a i significant pause "had been ' directed Just where to look." i "I Had Forgoteri- There 1 1 - I felt suddenly chilly, as if some evil, not fully known, were threat ening me. I knew Katie's monkey-like curiosity, but I would have staked my soul upon her ab solute loyalty to me and mine. But the three (faces around me were stern and set, h Indeed. I fancied that there was a look of something very akin to horror in both Lillian's face and that of Allen Drake," as they gaz ed at my father, an expression so foreign to their usual Inscrutable faces, that I feared something vague, terrifying, of unusual im portance, was attached to this memorandum. ' S Chief," Alien Drake began hes itantly, "pardon me if. I'm wrong, but it can't be that the missing paper concerns the thing we were talking about- " j t "Yes, my boy," i my father re plied gravely. "It did concern that. Indeed " j He stopped as he saw my puz zled, stricken eyes, and came to ward me, slipping lil3 arm around ft ; ttJ?Tt- ( rm ryii W '-4. -r I--""? ' I ' Ul Cliarlcs Jones In "The Vaibond Trail' at the Liberty. me. "I had forgotten; Daughter," he ;fIMiri(i Starts Tomorrow! 79 P. M. i i 4 -SL V 1 - ' ' . f. ill J X V.- M .' t: said, "but all this must be Greek to you, and partly to Mrs. Under wood also, although I think- she knows something about what I've been trying to do. But I shall not keep you in i ignorance longer, al though I have not yet completed the thing on which I have been working." , What Madge Feared. ' He drew me to a chair near the fire and; motioned the others to seats, and I held my breath as one upon the brink of a tremendous revelation. ,, "Just a minute, Mr. Spencer," Lillian Interrupted. "I want to be Very sure of something first." She went to. the door, ooened It cautiously, went aownine corn dor to the stairway, returned and closed the :idoor. . As,he .did so. I again he,ard just, that faintest suspicipn jot, a tinkle, and, .caught in Allen Drake's eyes. a .gfance.of amusement at my bewilderment. In a second .1 was hotly resent ful. The air was full of some sinister menace, and yet he, in his cocksure aloofness, could spare time for a smile. , - - . , ; "All right," Lillian reported la conically, and my father began speaking. I cannot, of , course, reveal all that he told us in his low monot onous voice, but long before he had finished, I felt as if I had been held below . water for a long time and was grasping for breath, so momentous was the secret which he was revealing to me. That part I EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE: 4 McMAHAX SPEAKS OUT Sensational! . Amazing it!- t " i y i Unique! ( McDonald at ttu WurKtzer Untamed - Uncdhquer ed - UnrivaledJpMait - . - The most dangerous r.srxc Ji:capUilyV lK tnost -1 love ana naie--ot loyally1 ana aevoiion A Horse You Read About and Never See ! j In a Photoplay of Thrills - j 1 ' 1 : ! ; CZ3 CZ3 O j ' ', . i i - ' -v ' - ' J - :!.:: i. ! i ' : i Last TimesToday Tomorrow Matinee VICTOR lr V I Rod LaRocque, JacaueBneLoftji BETTER he on deck when the Good Ship Melodrama comes to port with the biggest cargo of thrills the sea ever knew. - Editor Statesman As a probable member of the house in the next legislature I am deeply interested In the statement that my personal friend,. Mr. Bur dick, has been selected for speak er. Not being and never having been a candidate for that position, I fell entirely free to express my self fully and vigorously against the practice 6f selecting a speaker before the members of .the house are elected and met Id their offi cial capacity to earry';on the work of the seSBion. 1 ' Every experienced ' ' legislator knows, and the; general ' public ought to know, that the power of appointing the standing commit tees' carrfee.with It the opportunity to control all legislation, both good ahd bad, in a' house, the members of which are divided be tween those who are - Bincere in the work of reform and those who see in the legislature only an op portunity: for ; profit, either for themselves or for some interest they secretly represent. It is for this reason that those interested In irrigation bonds and contracts, in public1 corporations, promoters of schemes for making money out of the people in various, ways:, are always vitally interested in seeing to it that only men -who may be fcay $n4 opportunity . or free and open discussion. ' - 1 'When the framersrotf thefconsti- tufion adopted . the article' prpvid-t ing that of fleers . shall not be chQsen until the two houses shall have 'assembled, they attempted to provide against the Identical evil ot which I now complain, and no man who has1 pledged his sup pdrt.tp Mr. Burdick can carry out that pledge without violating that clause ot the organic law, so plain ly expressed that it needs no inter pretation. 1 'T,' ' . If after the house has assembled and there has been given to all members' opportunity, for open dis cussion, a pledged member shall then believe that the interests of the public will be best subserved by electing iff. Burdick, the memf ber can i legally and morally b'up port him. But until such meeting is held, until all obtainable light s thrown upon the situation, and the members of the house are, Iui ly advised no Irrevocable! pledge can be now made without violating the spirit, as well as the letter, of the organic law. . ; i . In the i' face of these obvious facts, some , candidates are now and long have been trafficking for places on committees in total dis regard of their duty and their ac tual pr implied promises io the electorate. They are trustees for the nubile, have power to take from the people millions ot dol lara land i apply" it to purposes sometimes! meritorious and at oth er times In utter disregard of the common welfare. This great pow er -should be placed qnly into the handsi of men who are keenly alive to t the great , moral responsibility with 'which: they are individually and collectively endowed.' I feel that ho man who, will thus place into any man's hapds the great powe? for evil that is a, preroga tive of the' speaker is alive to .the situation here .presented and . I trust that the gentlemen who have made I this ' agreement - with Mr. Burdfck'1 will? reconsider . their premises and wait until we: can all meet and obtain exchange of ideas and plans and then do that which a conscientious regard for our duty as legislators dictate, j I am 'not making war upon my frieni Burdick, nor attempting to prevent j his selection as speaker. of , his, story was as new eyen to J depended upon to: appoint commit- Allen Drake , as it was to me, I saw, clearly. , And when he had finished, I realized that, my fath er, whom we all had. thought had seen his best years of usefulness, had evolved something of the most tees favorable to their Interests are selected to preside over the house and the senate,; Committees so I appointed can always be de pended upon to cooperate in the work at hand, by , making reports tremendous, moment .to , his coun- favorable upon the bill which,; in try, but which would be of no ac count to. his country at all, should its secret fall Into alien hands. ,Tha significance of th missing memorandum came. -to me - in a blindipg flash. . He had told Allen; Drake that it concerned; his work. And it was gone. " And Katie With- a little half -hysterical cry. I crossed the room to my father and threw myself into his arms.! 'Don't tell me that my keeping the interest of the public welfareJ should be ' reported adversely, 'by holding bills in committees until the lobby 1 can get the situation well in hand, or so amend meri torious bills that they, fail of the intended purpose, ior are too long delayed for consideration. - All great' interests in the state likely to be, affected by legislation bien nially compose their, differences to secure for speaker of the house Katie as a aid is to blame for this. end president of the senate de- I sobbed. . "I -I cannot j pendabiej men, and in making a Father! bear It!" I (To be continued) Oregon Showing Code of the Sea Code of the Sea," featuring Rod La Rocque and Jacqueline Logan, was shown for the first selection! no consideration what ever is ever given to the public welfare, The failure ot the last legisla ture to respond to the reasonable demands of the people was largely I caused by the fact that the speaker of the house was selected ,as the speaker of the next house seeming ly Is now to be, not by due conr sideration of the members but by interested canvassers whose inter eats' lie,' not. in the ' prpmotion of time at the Oregon theater vester- the common welfare but in legis lauon preaaiory in us general ,s 1 i OiREGOMH Wi?3;.'--' l he story i3 an original for the I screen by Byron Morgan, author of Jmny of Wally Reid's automobile i successes. ; Bertram MIHhauser made" the adaptation. In; "the ; picture La Rocque has the role of Bruce McDow. first late-.on:; the lightship Barrier Reef. f;xae , night a great storm comeg up, 'and the yacht Neroid, ;on which is Jenny Hayden (Miss 'Logan), McDow's sweetheart, goeef i on the rocks and is breaking uri fast. 1 At the same time the pas senger steamer Northern, Captain Hayden, played by George Fawcctt Is trying to make port with 300 passengers. A wireless messagi from 1 the steamer orders McDow to remain at his station so the Northern can clear the reef ' in safety. The lightship springs one of ber forward chains, but McDow orders his men to ride it out until they 1 break, loose. He puts out to the Neroid in a small boat, picking up a lifeline, which has been shot out from a shore station and fal len short. He just .about makes the Neroid in time sees all on board taken safely ashore in the l breeches buoy- for the frail craft i disappears beneath the waves with the captain and himself aboard. Is that the end of him? The pic ture "Will be on view at the Ore- 1 gon today and Saturday, Maurice Flynn, Luke Cosgrove. i Lillian Lelghton and Sam Appell haveii important supporting roles in this picture, one of the fastest moving gea stories, not to pifen character. .One s would',, naturally suppose that it ; the members 01 the house were sincere in their promises to the people they would insist upon a general canvass of the-, situation. .-at some time-and place where alii could be heard and definite promises -secured. The public Is entitled to have the ad vantage of consultation among all the members upon every point af fecting the public - welfare and every intent of representative gov ernment; is opposed to jthe selec tion of presiding officers as it is now proposed to select them and as they have heretofore usually been selected. It is not enough to say that the majority ot the mem bers" have-agreed upon Mr. Bur dick, because such agreement if made, violates the - provisions of the state constitution, the spirit of the Corrupt' practices act and up on general principles contravenes public policy. ; Section 11 of article 4 ;of .the State 'constitution provides. . that Each house, ; when assembled shall. choose its own officers,", but it is now proposed that '.wldely separated Individuals without be ing assembled , for consnltr.Uon and long in advance of electiott shall Irrevocably choose the speak: e! v Legislators ; are trustees ot the public and are vested .with anthority .tb manage public, prop erty, not as individuals, but U3 an assembly, and their, acts arinor ally Justified only when they act as a board, legally assembled for the purposes for which they are elected, j The people have a right BEIB IS iW'AT END Quality of Remaining Logans Not High, Is bilverton i Report SILVERTON, Or., July 17. (Special to The Statesman) Lb ganberries coming into the Sil verton cannery are no longer be ing graded as the quality is not of the best. The berries will last only a few days more. Some Him alaya blackberries ; are being brought! in but it is not known whether they will be very numer ous. No accurate estimate of the amount grown about Silverton has been received but should there be very many the season will prob ably last two or three weeks. The Evergreen blackberry is growing rapidly and it is thought that the season for it will start in less than a month. All the black berries that can be obtained will be put up by the Silverton Pro ducts company this year. Some may be' graded as it is said that there Is a larger demand for choice blackberries ! than for choice loganberries. An attempt : is being made to get everyone growing the Ever green blackberry to sell to the Silverton' cannery as stockholders are not! to be given the preference as was done with other fruits. If it is possible to get them, berries will be; taken from the' vicinities of Canby, Marquam and Monitor as well as from Silverton and com munity!! ' The price pa)d will be the same as that of packers and growers associations of Salem or what Is; regarded as market price. I am attempting is to de a vicious practice that near ly always results in making the legislature a biennial disappoint- to the people. As a legislat arn appealing to the con- Whatj stroy ment or I sciences of my, fellow 5nembers for dae regard of the law and the common decency in political lif If in 'making this appeal I appear tot be harshy i have the sufficient excuse-.: that this vicious practice merits harsh treatment and until the practice is destroyed each ses slon will prove to be costly and disappointing to those who pay taxes. : L. H. M'MAHAN. V Balem, Or;, July 15,1924V ' f 3 be m'Sm Not the Water, But the Tule and Salt Grass, Making I i Destructive Blaze Ik.,.:, . , ; - r 1 . 'i - ":--: Robert M. Duncan, fornjer well known Salem resident, now of the firm I of McCulloch & Duncan, at .'.... . , . .. i. torneys. Burns, writes his: father. R B. Dnncan, here: 'Its still hot and dry as It was when I wrote you last. The hot test and dryest year we have- ever had.i Tlra great 1 Arrow rock dam on the Boise river is dry now and the Fiver is flowing" 500; second feet iwhereas ;6000 second feet is the lowest it . was ever known to get before. This Is a fair indica tion of all our water supply. i "Did I ever write you that Malheur lake got afire last month and burned up about 18,000 acres of tula and salt grass? -Burned thousands of ducks and geese and other birds; The flames were great' arid light was plainly vis Ible in Burns, while cinders car ried for miles. There was a high wind out of the southeast at the time. It burned about 2000 tons of hay and several houses and many miles of , fence. 'The springs at the 00 ranch are holding out 1 and there will be water there tins .fail and some in the Blitien, but none else where. :i " ' -1 tlon tone of the most genuinely en-1 to, and the intent of representative I tertaining productions, which has i government is, " that, fhey , shall :come to the, screen at the Oregon have from legislators a conscien- m many months. I tious consideration of every prop- ;psition coming before the legisla Vollyball Title Stake ; 1 j At Lincoln Playground ' Play for the volleyball cham pionship of the Lincoln play ground . Is now under way, and .of eight! teams participating jDelbert Swabbaner and Delbert VVieska emergedT victors bydefeatjng Fay Faultx and Lawrence Tussler 15 9; 15-3. . . ?M ... - , Two games must be won out of three played. If the, odd number is necessary, .according to Miss Danta Bobbins, playground super visor. The first team annexing 15 points is declared the winner; MACATIOfl It V 7 : For sunburn. bitM, soreness. V mison ivy ot summer colds 10 say that those-Chicago boy Mure atrd that'no matter affecting ( ... f ft o r- murderers descended from the I the public shall be decided except I . T. . U monkey would be a,.terrible libel I at an assembly of all the wenv-J V VAPORUD on the monkey. here, in which very member Tnarn ! Ow4riTUUomJanU9d Ywmrtf t d Kin WILL BE ASKED '7 . - Mill Creek Project to Be Further Advanced at Meeting Tonicht At a meetlngjto be held tonight of the committee recently appoint ed.to take active steps in the pro-. posed JMill, creek drainage dls trict, arrangements will be made for a survey by-engineers. It. is probable that the commit tee,, which consists of Mayor John B. Ciesy, J. G. Merchen and.E. J. Kirkpatrick, will arrange with the engineering firm of Cupper - Simpson. The committee will ask the engineers to make an es timate of the cost of such a drain age district. i . - - ; In cooperation with cpunty of- flcials.ri theTc6rt$iUtee in chjirge will secure.1 f rojn : th0 records ; the The Subway Store (Miller's Basement) Announces a Sale of Women's Wool BATING SUITS At j Regularly sold at $5 to 37.50 Get nto the Swim! ; These Are Wonderful iValues 34 to 42 Come Early names and holdings of all j those who' live kn the district. Then a petition v ill be drawn, and, from the past nterest taken In a pro posed dr linage district there is assurance that the committee will experienci j no difficulty In obtain ing tlsuf fii lent name , to the, . p; tjHion to h'ave the' matter legalfy presented tp. the. county eourt. Thiewrl JpeJnd a ubl3" hear ing aeeprdine tdlaV.ij?Thei county qjurt hai . authority to authorize fte formation o.f (a, drainage dls- tjle cost involved ia commensurate .wiin me peneiic io me aisircui-. 4 Both the engineering firta o!f .Clipper & Simpson and state en gineers -are of the opinion that s'uch ' a drainage 'district' as. pro posed for the Mill creek portion ot the city can be constructed at a ;very. moderate cost as compared to the benefit that will accrue' to . .. . : , 1 1 all that part of the city, including! the penitentiary grounds and; sooth of State and east of Twelfth -streets. Also all that district out-1 side the city limits as far south east as the boys training school, will be - Included, in" the proposed , district, an area of around 6,000 acres. . , OWN YOUR" HOME SEE ADS UNDER THIS HE ADIN.O. ON. THE CLASSIFIED t. PAOB TODAY . :: :: . ...... J I . J r LIBERTY . : TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY ' f !! COMEDY ipToj " Rvjr ; news ' II 'lsn0 . 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