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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31; 1924 Isaoad Daily Except Monday hf . THB STATESMAH FUXUSEXNO OOXPA 815 Boutk Commarclal St, Salam, Ortfom B. J. Haodrteka U. Brady .Vmnk Jatkoikl 5 HXIOEB OF THB ASSOCIATED PBXSS Thm Asaoclatad Preaa la zelaaivaly entitled to tke for pnbli rattan of sL w diapatrhaa credited to it or not otherwiae credited is Una paper aa alao the local itwi pbbliiked herein. . i ; - ' -: . BUSINESS OFFICE: ' r ' Tkeovaa F. Clerk Co- New York. 14114ft TVVet 36th St.; Cbl'afo. Marqnette Build ing. W. B. Grothwahl, Mgr. I - t (Portland Offlet, S3 Worcester Bldf., Phone 6637 B Roadway. O. F. Wllliama. Iffr.) TELEPHONES: i .' . 2 Cirenlnttoa Office . SS-106 Society Editor Job Dopartaeat ' ' . - - - 8S Basinet Office Kewa Department Enured at the Poatoffie ia 8alem, ' BIBLE THOUGHT AND PRAYER Prepared by Radio BIBLE SERVICE Bureau, Cincinnati, Ohio. If parent will hare their children memoria the dally Bible selection. It will proTe a priceless heritage to them In after year August 31. 1024 I " RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS REJOICINO: When the righteous are In authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2. PRAYER: Speed the day. Lord, and use Us as the Instru ments, when all men shall acknowledge Thee to be the Lord. Then Thy will shall be done on earth as It Is now done1 in heaven. ELRHJ 2 TIMES OUR There is a prospect of securing a beet sugar factory in; Salem. This is the best place in Oregon for one; Eugene is probably the next best point, with Corvallis, Albany, Ilillsboro, Oregon City, McMinnville, Silverton,' Woodburn, following in about that order V , x ' ' And why? Because of the labor problem. The thinning of sugar beets takes a lot of hand labor; painstaking, back breaking work. The rest, for the most part, is much aided by modem machinery. Salem is used to finding a lot of labor, in the tending and harvesting of our tree and bush fruits and our vegetables and strawberries and hops. The beets can be grown in all the Willamette valley counties, with sufficient sugar con tent to make their production an economically sound proposi tion; with 12 per cent of sugar content. We have grown in several parts of the valley sugar beets with 25 per cent of sugar content..' - .; ;,.;;,;:- .) J N . :-f'.,J ': :::: .-" Is there danger that we may overdo beet sugar production! Hardly. Americans now consume something more than 90 pounds of sugar per capita. They produce about three-fifths of their raw sugar on American soil, including that in Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico. They import the balance, mostly in the raw form from Cuba. We eat our weight in sugar now, each year . . -...; .-V-: .)..;-. ?- J ' , r'v- . And according to experiments :of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture men doing heavy labor may consume 275 pounds of sugar a year without any deleterious effectsthat is, our workers may eat about three (times their weight in sugar annually ; though the experts do not say how much a girl doing nothing ought to eat between, meals. M - 15 Pure white sugar is the first and greatest contribution of chemistry to the world's dietary. It is a single definite chemical compound, sucrose, and it is highly nutritious. It is a simple and pure combination of carbon hydrogen and oxygen. Except the fats, there is no more nutritious food than sugar,! pound for' pound, for it contains no water and no waste. It is therefore the quickest and usually is and always should be the cheapest means of supplying bodily energy. As a source of the energy needed in our strenuous life sugar has no equal. ; Common sugar is almost an ideal food. Cheap, clean, white, portable, imper ishable, unadulterated, pleasant tasting, germ free, highly nu tritious, completely soluble, altogether digestible, easily assim ilable, requires no cooking and leaves no residue. Its only fault is-its perfection. . It is so pure a man cannot live on it. Four square lumps give 100 calories of energy; and only 2500 to 3500 c-alories are required to keep a man going for a day. To round out the dietary there must be added to the carbon; hydrogen anTI oxygen contained in sugar nitrogen and other elements, by the use of the grains and milk and fruits and vegetables con taining the other ingredients necessary to life- : But we may safely eat more and more sugar; and we are going to, unless the country goes Democratic and the free trade wreckers get the upper hand. ... ' i ... 1 ! j . , The ancient Greeks, being an inquisitive arid acquisitive people, were fond of collecting tales of strange lands. .They did not care much whether the stories were true or not so long as they were interesting. Among the marvels that the Greeks heard from the Far Eeast two of the strangest were that in India there were plants that bore wool without sheep and reeds that bore honey without bees. These incredible tales turned out to be true and in the course of time Europe began to get a little Calico from Calicut and a kind of edible gravel that the Arabs who brought it called "sukkar." But of eourse only kings and queens could afford to dress in calico and have sugar prescribed for them when they were sick 1 But fortunately, in the course of time, the Arabs' invaded Spain and forced upon the unwashed and unwilling inhabitants of Europe such things of higher civilization as arithmetic and scap and sugar. Came a time when Great Britain controlled the cane sugar industry of the world. j Margerraf, a Berlin chemist, had in 1747 discovered that it was possible to extract sugar from beets. But there was only a little sugar jn the beet root then, some 6 per cent, and what he got out was dirty and bitter. One of his pupils in 1801 set tip a beet sugar factory in Breslau under the patronage of the King of Prussia, but the industry was not a success until Napo leon took it up in 18,10 and of fered a prize of a million francs for a practical process. France was shut off from the cane sugar supply and wanted sugar.? i ; " f ' .;' In a -f comic paper of that day you will find a cartoon of Napoleon in the nursery beside the cradle of his son and heir. The Emperor is squeezing the juice of a beet into his coffee and the nurse has put a beet into the meuth of the infant King of Rome, saying "Suck, dear, suck. Your father says it's sugar." In like manner, did the wits ridicule Franklin for fooling with electricity, Ruraford for trying to improve chimneys, Par rnentier for thinking pototoes were fit to eat, and Jefferson for believing something mighty be made out of our part of the country that lies west of the Mississippi j ; : In all ages ridicule has been the chief weapon of conserva tism. If you want to know what line human progress will take in the future, read the funny papers of today and see what they are fighting. The satire of every century from Aristophanes to the latest vaudeville has been directed against those who are trying to make the world wiser or better, against the teacher and the preacher, the scientist and the reformer - . ,h- There is a big family of sugars. Maple sugar is mostly sucrose. So partly is.honey. Nearly every fruit and vegetable lias some sugar, including carrots, and even turnips. But there is another sugar, corn sugar, that is not sugar (sucrose) at all, but plucose, and in.the United States we work Up 50,000,000 ln:hels of corn a year into 800,000,000 pounds of com syrup. Cr rvo rw - . 1 . U ro-r nrm iwi i wu.wvwu puuuua ui Biarta, uit,vvt,mju pouuuS OI gluten leeu m.OCO.OOO pounds of oil (for "Karo," "Mazola," etc.), 90,! f : rZ0 pounds of oil cake, and 230.000,000 pounds of corn :r, tvhieh is not sujrar, but '.o partly from glucose and : :? rr-r rrd corn E'Jjar; . - Editor 583 106 Oregoa. aa aeeond elaaa matter. WEIGHT IN SUGAR glucose, and nearly all candies are partly from sncrose that is. from and they are both food.. -Nearly all candy is wholesome, as it comes from the hands of the candy maker; though it may" gather bad elements in improper handl ing from unclean hands, etc. But cane sugar and beet sugar are when completely puri fied exactly the tuftne substance, that 'is,' sucrose; chemically C12H22011,- with the figures: below the letters; that is, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, using subscript figures to indicate the number of atoms. .; - , , ' ' 1 One is as good as the other,1 because if they are both abso lutely pure they are exactly the same. And there is no advan tage economically in cane sugar. The only advantage is the cheap (black) labor employed in growing sugar cane in the country where we get most of our raw sugar for refining, Cuba. An acre of sugar-beets in the Salem district will make more refined sugar than an acre of sugar cane in Cuba, or any where else. The labor cost here is more, because our laborers will not go barefooted and half naked and live in a state of near star vation.' ; - ; v; - . -V ' Hence the necessity for a protective tariff, and it should be higher instead of lower, as the sugar refiners of the Atlantic coast using raw cane sugar from Cuba are fighting for. If we will protect our beet sugar industry, and build it up, we will soon be able to make all our sugar on American soil, even though we may go to the point of three times our weight in sugar consumption annually, which we will naturally do in that case, because home competition will bring and keep down prices to a proper proportion compared with the general scale of prices in this country. i . The Statesman is for three times our weight in sugar con sumption annually, with beet sugar factories all over the Wil lamette valley, and elsewhere in this state where the beets may be grown and the proper labor may be had. ' j PARDON'S AND PAROLES There are some little criticism of Governor Pierce in his use of the parole. Our opinion Is that Governor Pierce does not parole enough. When a man is Impris oned he has a right to work his way to freedom, and there is just one way he can do this fairly. and that is by good conduct. We have a parole law, and to have a man not paroled when he Is eli gible and deserving; embitters the prisoner.. Of course some men should not be paroled at all; other men, no matter how vicious or violent when entering the prison, get the opportunity for more thinking than they ever did in their lives before, with the result that they reform. ; There is such a thing as a cure for crime. We all recognize it now crime is a' disease. It can be cured by treatment. In our medical profession we don't give much medicine any more; we treat the patient. ,It Is possible to treat 99 out of every 100 con victs successfully. We don't mean by this that there should be lai ness; we believe in firmness, but there should be humanity always. It is our deliberate opinion that the penitentiary of Oregon today is being unusually well managed. ' ' '7 j . ;'H:' LABOR DAY The ; curse ' pronounced upon Adam has come to be one of the great blessings of the race. : Every body worth while labors. - Not everybody labors profitably, hut more and more they are beginning to understand that labor uses the head as well as the hand. 'Labor has progressed marvelously In the last few years. It has enjoyed profitable employment and every body wants it to be prosperous. The country has no desire to get back to the old conditions. However, we need a better un derstanding between the so-called capital and labor.9 They should both understand and respect the rights of the other. Every friend of good citizenship is ' glad that labor has been recognized so gen erally, glad of the place that it has secured, and sympathetic with the problems, at the same time watching the Interests of the country. , (j Some of these days we are go ing to' have a better understand ing, then our differences win be minor. We make them funda mental now, but we make a mis take in so doing. A LUXURY TAX Governor Pierce is quoted as wanting to establish a luxury tax in Oregon. There are a good many people who believe that everybody should pay taxes and that a majority escape. It 4a true that a majority escapes di rect taxation but there Is no such thing as escaping taxation in America. What is not levied di rectly la levied indirectly, i Lux ury taxes were levied as a mili tary necessity. They were always burdensome, always unpopular. They were abolished as soon as the country could find other means of raising revenue. It Is not wholesome, not a governmen tal; way to put additional burden on I the innocent amusements of the people. A movey should not be taxed as a luxury. Ice cream should not be taxed as a luxury. There are other ways of raising money rather than by taxing those who get entertainment out of the innocent affairs of life. " Certainly it is that Oregon can raise enough taxes without re sorting to re-establishing the lux ury tax this time as a state in stitution. . " THEIR OWN BUNDS The campaign j'" this year is a heart-breaker for the politicians. The republicans have named two candidates who are not politicians at all in the general acceptation of the terra. Coclld-a'tas a Ugh ap preciation of his orfice and his responsibility as ' a statesman but never a politician. He says and does things not for politics but be cause he thinks they are right. ; ' - Dawes is about as unconven tional in politics as one can find, with his brutal frankness In his honesty and impatience which at times startles politicians. In all the history of the parties there has never been a ticket the personnel of which ranks so high as the present one. SHOWING OURSELVES I A woman in Warrenton is pre paring a movey. to show Oregon to itself. We need this tremen dously in the state. We are very apt to minimize our advantages. One reason for : this is that we have a class of men who are con tinually defaming the state. They are trying to avoid taxes and in doing so they malign Oregon, f The fact is we have a most re markable state. ; It is finding it self very fast, but our own peo ple do not realize what we have. If they did they would all be boost ers; they would make the state killers pack their grips and get out. Oregon needs pictures to show Itself to itself. I GIVING STUDENTS WORK ! The school year is about to be gin and people of Salem have re sponsibillties in the way of pro viding work for students which cannot and must: not be evaded. It is a privilege to help a boy, or girl through school, as well as a duty to your fellow men. It Is time now to cast about and see what a student can do to earn his or her board during fhe winter In addition to getting the work done, it is a distinct contribution to advance the race. Those who provide for the education of the youth are making a valuable con tribution to the world. ' AMAZING REVELATIONS The evasions of the blue-sky law in Oregon are amazing. If offic ials are not to enforce the law wo ought to repeal it. If it does not protect the people it is time to do something. The disclosures of the last few; days cry out against this outrage. It is enough to discourage the people of Ore gon and to make contempt for all law. The blue-sky law is one that should be strictly and fairly enforced. ! TOO MUCH STATIC Carefully reviewing the politics of the country we have been forced to the conclusion that the one great trouble is too much static Things may be going along very smoothly until one fellow devel ops static, breaks bounds, acts erratic and winds up by demand ing a third party. It is a part of good politics to discourage the static in the campaign and to get personality. Our static ought to be eliminated from leadership. i The Oregon Statesman is very proud of the labor of the state. It is loyal and It is not fair either to charge up to labor the derelicts of the IWW and the country kill ers. Labor in itself is entitled the respect it receives. Also, to it is doing itself a favor in the Dart it takes In building up the great state of Oregon. J NEW CORPORATIONS I . . r- Articles of incorporation were filed Saturday by the .Home Fi nancing Investment company of Portland, with a capital of $100, 000. The . Incorporators r are George W. Hoyt and others. 5 Notice of an increase in capi tal from $10,000 to $ 50.000 was filed by the Edward E. Goudy, company of Portland. ; 5 Under the blue sky act a per mit was issued to the Cosmopoli tan Five Cents to One . Dollar Stores, Inc.. . of Eugene to sell stock In the amount .of $100,000. ran fin i age PROBLEMS Adele Garrtaac ivew Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright by Newspaper Feature Sarvice CHAPTER NO. 256 THE IDLE QUESTION LILLIAN ASKED WHICH STARTLED MADGE i ' r .: "!:' The pompous man snatched at the chance his daughter had given him to save his face by her re ference to: "Don Ramon's", need of a physician. j Sorry!", He jerked the ridicu lous perfunctory little word out at me as if he were making bis way out of a mlddle-oMhe-row-seat in a theatre, then turned to his daughter with an anxious air.' "Did you say Don Ramon was brut?" he asked, j "No, but his heart's gone back on him a bit. He's sitting In the car. "I'd better go right out.' he said fussily. "He tention." may need at- "You'd better stay right where you are," his daughter said with decision. "He was very up-stage about sending me into the house, and if he didn't want me he cer tainly doesn't want to hear any of your jaw jazz. j Besides, if he really needs anything, Peter is there he's got the blood washed off his face by nowj and this lady's father is out there, too. And I'll tell the world if he's anything like her he's some able; citizen! - v I , . V .(,'. A Changed Attitude. i : To my disgust I found myself not .only flushing' at the rough praise the girl had given me, but feeling a distinct Reaction in f her favor. Was I so spineless, I ask ed myself indignantly, that a word or two of personal commendation would change my opinion of a per son? . j I answered honestly In the af firmative, for I began to feel not only v a distinct liking for this crude young woman, but a desire to shield her from! the disillusion ment which was surely coming to her as a result tor her romantic interest in the pseudo- Don Ram on.: i 'i I "My father is very experienced in emergencies," I said, "and I am sure your friend will have all nee essary attention.; I will get my car out at once and take him 'with me to the physician's. It Is real ly almost as quick to go to his office as to try to get him on the telephone from out in this section, for I might go to three houses be fore I found any one at home Will you give me those other ad dresses, please?? I turned to the pompous father.! He lopked at me with such meek little expression on his face that it gave mej and, I think, Lil lian also, an irresistible desire to laugh. j 'I am afraid it will be too much trouble for you ! to : have the phy sician here," he said deprecating ! ' "Who Is Don Ramon?" , : ''Have a dozen doctors if you like," I returned, and I think that even through his thick epidermis penetrated the amusement at his pompous f ussine8s which I could not hide. I have been through life and death experiences when there was less fuss than this man had wished to make over an acci dent when none! of his family had been hurt. I had noticed also that he had made no inquiry for his chauffeur the only member of the party who had suffered an injury, and I sup pose my contenptuous resentment for . his, heartless indifference showed in my voice, jj Look here. Dad." His daughter who, I had guessed, ruled the fam ily, spoke emphatically. "We'll be home before Dr. Y. could get out from New York to see Mums. And it's all nonsense to have Dr. X come over here from Southamp ton. The nearest physician can give us all the once-over. He can tell whether Mums Is all right to go back home which I am sure she ...will be after a little rest and Mrs. Graham can send a gar age man out to j look at the car, and telephone the house to send another car for us when she's out. We're putting you to an awful lot of trouble, Mrs, Graham." j - There was real apology in her tone, and -I answered her warm ly. I "Don't talk nonsense!" I said. smiling at her 'I am very glad to be able to help you. Is that address ready?" ; I turned, a bit cavalierly, I am afraid, to her father "Er? Oh! Yes, yes," he said nervously, whipping a richly bound notebook from his pocket, tearing out a leaf and 'hastily scribbling upon it.! "And if you'll kindly send out the best garage man available.' "I'll do what I curtly. - can," I replied Then I turned to Lillian. . V'Will you tell Katie to bring up a pot of strong tea and what ever else you think necessary?'" I asked." " ' Til see to it now," she said promptly, walking with me to the door, and when it Was shut behind us she grabbed me round the waist and did a burlesque dance-step. "Did you see the old balloon collapse?" she whispered . gleeful ly. ' "I have to slip it to you, old girl. You certainly skewered hlra properly. Who is this Don Ram on you are going to escort to town? That girl had a romantic gleam in her eye when she spoke of him. Perhaps I'd better take a look at him to see whether it's safe for you to go ; with him. Those foreign devils are fascinat ing, you know. We had reached the staircase by this, time, and it took all of my composure to answer her rail lery in similar vein. If she only knew the answer to her idle question! (To be continued) THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY By Editor J. B. Parker of the Conway (Ark.) News. The Master made a most perti nent Inquiry when He asked "What shall it profit a man if ho rain the whole world and lose his own soul? ! Without sermonizing on this vital question of the Master, let us look at ourselves ! as men and women. ' S SuDDOse that you and I so lived that we accumulated a vast for tune -and. while doing so ciosea our eyes to; the needs of those about us and also oppressed com petitors while we were piling up our big money. - At no period of our lives could we point to a solitary individual act that bore the stamp of having done unto others as we would they should do unto us. . : Not a single thing by which we could merit approval had we done. Simply existed for selfish and sor did motives,- and when we died there were none to mourn us or were able to point to a worthy earthlv deed. In short, our liTes were absolute failures. . j How are you and I living? Are we making the Golden Rule our guide post? ' His Record ; "What's been coming off, Gap, asked an acquaintance, as Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge, limped Intft the crossroads store, and with a eroan. sank down on a nail keg f "Well. I'll just tell you, Lafe,' was the reply, "I swapped for mule yesterday, put a bridle on him and hopped onto his back;. He jumped and throwed me off, and kicked me before I hit the ground," "Huh! Every time .one of my mules throws me off he kicks me twice before I strike the ground Without the Family Dudley: "L think you were fool ish, old man", to cut your vacation short and hurry back to the hot city." - ; "Rvron: "Perhaos I was: but I needed a rest." ' Mrs. William J. Rounds Ballade of Maidenly Popularity She's such a demure little wren .You don't notice the twink in her eye; But when she's around with the : men,' There's no one who passes her . - by.1 L -The reason it's plain to decry; If you ever come under her fist, You'll notice as frequently as I She closes her eye when she's kissed. You ask how this comes to my ' ken? Observation amends my reply; For when men are together, and when ! She lishtsomely trips her way by, Her glance at the party is sly. And before you can bid them de sist, s In chorus the fellows all cry: "She closes her'eyes when she's kissed!" I L'EnvoI Though she's most undeniably shy In view of this damaging list. Don't you think there's a good reason why She closes her eyes when she's kissed. - William A- Brewer, Jr. Room To Spare Old Gentleman (who hasn't been to a dance in years): "Er- isn't this dance floor rather small my. dear?" ; His Flapper Niece: "Nonsense, Uncle! Just wait until you see some of our latest steps. LOOKED SUSPICIOUS ."Cullud chile," said Tobe keep outen dat what man's wa termelon patch? Dey ain't no chile oh mine goin' ter deceibe me dat way. Didn't Ah tell yo dat ain't hones' t visit his watermel on patch?". "Yessah, pap.". said little Washington. "Ah guess you did." "Well, yestiddy I went over to dat watermelon patch," continued Tobe,- "for t . get. a melon, and dey ain't none dere How you goin' V splaln datr panj powers. 7&33IX&3 EVERY NEED HAS (Copyright 1924 by tXi growth, expansion, development depend upon the uni versal law of supply and demand that is in tiod. isothing grows of itself or by its own action alone. It must draw upon a source outside of its own individuality for food, and for inspira- tionjas it grows to receive it, in order to renew its life that its aetitity.niay continue. It can not grow without action to draw irom trie supply aim to use wnat In all life there is never a demand for which there is no supply, never a. desire which does not spur is in circulation in all the physical creation supplying their needs as the circulation of the blood in animals carries the sustenance to every part of the body the God if wisdom, love and truth does not touch the soul of the lower organisms for they are not grown to receive and make use of His wisdom and power. While man lives in his physical needs of his being are not yet aroused God is in circulation alone in his nature as in the plant and burdens of the physical, he suffers its cruel penalties. He fol lows the lead of his instincts and until his soul can be quickened spiritual needs, then he finds that his own mighty effort to lift himself from his natural life draws to him a vision of the life beautiful that he is to make real, and attracts light and inspira tion from the soul of God that remove the burden and bring joy to his heart. Nature is so perfect-in her economy that when the use for a thing is gone she fails longer to ways, as long as the need exists is withdrawn the supply is exhausted. Man working in harm ony with the law escapes the difficulties and suffering that its. infringement entails. Supply and ed out in the spiritual life as in means and opportunities that are furnished for spiritual growth as they are offered makes the way rough and hard that might otherwise have been joyous. . ,.'. In struggling with these unnece'ssary difficulties one gains no strength, for his labor is useless-He misses the joys of success. He feels no exhilaration, he feels only disappointment. He loses his 0011 rage for which he sometimes substitutes a stubborn defi ance, he scolls at the love of God and denies His power. lie boasts, "Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody yet unbowed, . . . . I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." What folly! If the boaster should he consent to be buffeted and battered, for chance or any other power could not touch him if his mastery were a fact and not a delusion. When some big elemental thing sweeps him off his feet and the "clutch of circumstances" leaves him with noth ing, to draw upon for strength he is truly a pitiable object. When man gains the mastery he will gain it through the action of the power of God in his life. " He will be one with God in vis ion in wisdom, in love, in work. The first Master exclaimed, . "The Father worketh in me." '.' The Bible emphasizes the necessity of man's activity ;." Ask and yeshall receive seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you." To ask means that man is conscious of his need, the light that he receives in answer to his prayer reveals to him that he must prepare his heart to receive the supply of God's spirit that alone can fill the need. But this divine blessing can not be. his unless he is active in using it for good. ! He must seek to know" his work and do it, and as he knocks the figure is strikingly apt in describing his activity, the door , into a -new and beautiful condition of usefulness is opened to his under standing. I .'. Work, then, is the life for all if they are to live in harmony with the life of God. Nothing can standstill if it is to live; ther is no idleness with God. Christ incited all to labor, tobe active. ; The'old law, too, is insistent in its 'Sfx'days shalt thou labor. " Nothing in all the world has ever been accomplished without ac tion, only disease and death result from stagnation. Back of great spiritual work is the love of God in the heart of the worker; love for humanity, love of all good and th Giver of all good, love for the work itself as an expression of that love. The faithful performance of the most trivial duty carries a sig nificance that dignifies it, because to be careless or negligentof the smallest link in the chain of daily duties is to interfere with the order and harmony of living. , Spiritual action is not undertaken for the compensation or re wards that the work might bring. Understanding of the needs of others and a love for humanity that urges one to relieve that need prompts the action"; In this" way , God uses his spiritual children to furnish the substance and eare that his younger chil dren must have if they, are to grow. The soil in every heart will be made fertile when saturated with love, the air that each one breathes will be electrified and energized by love, and plants of the spirit will spring up into life and beauty, new creations for the unfolding of the soul. "Blessed are they, which do hunger and thirst after righteous ness for they shall be filled." J - -? - I Ddzzy Walking Blake: ''Hear about Jennings' accident? 'No?,Well, he broke his leg." . - . - ; . Drake: "How did it happen?" Blake: "Well, you know that he walks in his sleep? Well, he had to make a trip last week, and he took an upper berth." 1 : .-'; . Henry ' Jansen . f . Did .You Know That : It is more blessed to give than to receive advice? f When there's scandal in the air a woman doesn't need a radio set to "listen in"? 1 The shortest way is the cheap est way unless you use a taxi? . .While "money makes the mare go," the racetracks have reversed that maxim? Edward Frost Slight Changes ': Teacher: ''Willie," what were the chief changes of the animals of the Jurrasaic and Triassic periods?" Willie: "Their tails were differ ent.", -. ; -, . ' . ' Teacher: ''Wrong." Willie: "But teacher, the other day you said that the changes were mostly details." and B Sweet Adeline, I ask a favor; - Your Hps don't need A borrowed flavor. George Miller Short and Sweet "I know that X. am not good enough for you he told her. .. "I don't Intend to give you a chance to prove it," she replied- i -' . ' K. A. Bisbee. I The Jingle-Jangle Corner -The moon drops low, the sun will sink, . Men still insist that they must f drink. .:.... Elzada N. Clover. I ITS SUPPLY San Jose Mercury.) . is given. one on to action. God's life nature only and the higher animal., Man bears the heavy -impulses to keep his life going by the divine, spirit of love to supply it. The law works both there is a supply, when the need demand is as perfectly work the physical. Not accepting the were 'master of his fate why The accident was averted, by how, do you suppose? Did the hero sound his horn? NO. A policeman blew his nose! Jack Dami. From the mark the bullet swerves, Pretzels have a lot of curves. . L. M. N. Jewelers have previous stocks; Stockings have a lot of clocks. Mrs. John Mark well. Chickens laid; Landlords : is paid. cackle when eggs are chuckle when the rent W. E., Hopkins. Reverse English Rose: "Did you read that book 'What Every Young Girl Should Know?" ' Minnie: "No, what does the good book say?'' 4 Walter Greenwald. In The Land of Nod? Marshall: "You are the first girl I ever loved." Maxine: "Where have you been all thls time?" Hortense Green Hint to Motorists Be careful of dangerous curves. Many a driver has had a smashup because. he had an arm around one. - - I - FUTURE DATES 1 Aarost 28-31 Ppiflo Crm"ai annual renfervBce. Center Street Hethediit cbuwh. September 8. Wm n-dy. lbor dr. Septeoiber 12. Friday National De- fenaa dayr September 15, Monday, Willamette nnl- eritr open. - - September 22-27, Oreron Flat fair. September XT. . Wednesday Comtita- tlon day. September' 29, ilonday Fjlem r-v.: aehools atari. Kvmber 11. TcesiHar Ar- ' ' I ' i A r I " r r ,i i i "f . V j. X