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S.I ; V ' : r - TIIE OBEGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 19&5 LOCHiOfJ: AiJQTHERTRlP C. X Ash Tells of Pleasure Jaunt in :-5 '( jSouthem California Soon w reached th main part of the city and plunged Into the thick of the traffic, One would Imagine that there would ba jams and tangles .for the streets re not wide In the busiest places, hut the traffic la handled generally very smoothly. While I was in that section of , the - country the new jaywalk law was -pat- Into Ashaaugh, of.Brooks, effectand e few amusjnf quite abruptly of this new ordi nance. - - "We were also favored with their opinion of a city that would 'put surti a law 1 nand the officers esti mate of them but on the ' whole this law ia liked and no doubt is In I the thirdi of a series of let ters ;on his , recent trip through . California. ' C : X" Ashbauch' of Brooks, describes the trip from I a good thing for both motorist and Long Beach to Santa Monica. His i those on foot letter Is as follows: To Long Beach from Santa Monica one has. the choice of sev eral iroutes. The most direct one leadt along the ' beach but the highway if not so good and through Ocean park and Venice It Is impossible to make very good time owing to the rough and nar row ways and the congestion, so Passing through Broadway and Main, we hunted up' E. Slauson irenue. This seemed to be out of the way but were told upon en quiry-that It was the best way. so we followed It to South Pacific Bouler&rd thence on to - Long Beach boulerard. This Is SOME street and I bare wished many-a time that our Pacific highway was for this trip we decided to go Into Jnst like it from Salem to Port Los J Angeles and Uke the Long land. I belieTe eight cars could go Beach bouleTard south' which lves abreast and never interfere. It plenty of Interesting "sights1, and built for the future as all high return via the. beach route. Plcco St. Is one of the tnrough thorofares leading into the city which gives the motorist plenty ot j'oom and good going so we left) the 'ocean aide when we lo cated the sign. : v ; j.T V; Tpr several miles there are open spaces interspersed -with plots and new sites, young' trees and new curbing. Indicating that soon this wll be a residence section linking thai main city with the : beaches. Here and there along such motor routes there are fruit stands handl ing; this cheaper ' grades of fruits. Here ' cull or over-ripe oranges and grape fruit can be purchased at jabouf; the price one might ex pect where so much, fruit la raised. Ortnges wilt range from as low as 10 cents to 35 cents per pail the orainary water pail and grape f ruit almost as cheap. For imme dials use they are even better than those to be had In the stores. We stopped at one of these places and with 25 cents got the tloof of the rear end of the' machine pretty well covered.. Seeing a wagon lead of cocoa nuts a little further on. with sign displayed stating that three of these luscious monkey- lefd might be bad for the small sum of two bits, we again pur chased knowing that anything we rifrl not consume during the day would; be gratefully received by those who bad to stay at heme. (.o get rid of this'eubject right now as it is dietaateiul to my memory, I will add that one of tb nuts had to be thrown away and-the other two were spoiled.) ways should be. The lots along this way are out of reach now. ordinarily speaking, and it is hard to say whetc they soon will be. . Coming into Long Beach we find that the streets running to ward the ocean are named: for trees, with Pine the main buslnes one.' This has some wonderful stores and buildings, I think as TUlftGS THAT" 3EVEEI HAPPEN WHICH ONE. A YOlA r ' CDUFaTr HEALTH 9 .1 fine as I saw -anywhere, It was Saturday afternoon . and jail the people aeemed bent on spending what they had earned during the week, iln fact the crush was so great that we fled to the pier and the pike where, although it wes busy, there was not the crowd as the day was just a little chilly for being that close to the water al though the hot-dog counters were doing a very r enviable business. Out on the, Pier there seemed to be some sort . of convention so we wedged In to ascertain what it was all about. There seemed to be a great deal of argument going on and by elbowing into the heart of One little group we found two old men with bristling beards, split fins religious sub-subjects 'into atoms.- Not being Interested in their ideas of future fire we hove near another and with much wedg ing; found the nucleus which this time was political. There were dozens of these little groups and I was of the opinion tht they were delegates to some thing; fd asknd a young lad what was on. ? Oh. they're Just a bunch of old fellows who like to come down here and listen to the band and each other. No, it'a no convention, just a' reg ular thing." - , t By the way, I never saw so many old men in on o city In my life as can be eeen in Long Beach. They say that half of the city came from Iowa.. They may have, I don't know, but ail I say looked' like ketlred easterners and most of them, appear to bare come from the rural parts.. Passing back by the city park I saw more of them, engaged in croquet and pitching horse shoes. I might also add that If you want to see soma real horse shoe pitching7 that is the place. Near the; Pier below on the sands' we saw some' work of the sand artists. They had worked out a scene from the battle fields. A soldier. lad. being watched over by a Red Crocs nurse. The fig ures were entirety of sand moulded so life like that One would look twice to tell whether they , were not actually real people. On the bank raised to represent the side of a trench were the letters, "The Rose of No-Mans-Land." Along the Pike, that entertain ing thoroughfare running up the beach from the Pier, are gathered about all the sideshows, freaks, carton. lrnn.tnen miV ieim. nurry iiotoer; jsven constipat- bra. nltant lad! ttHm tn. fa, Diuou3, leverisn, or sick, cone world to say nothing of the places I'nn'aa a" u ..enaA e - . wnere nutriment, nuruhment or Detailed Report Is Given By Mrs. Carson, President, at "Annual Meeting Mrs. John A. Carson, president of the Marion ' County Health as sociation, gave a detailed report of the activities of the association during the last year at the annual meeting held Friday. Mrs. Carson's report, in full, is as' follows: "During 1924 and up to date Marion County Health association has spent a busy year. About ; on March-8, 1924, our county school nurse, Mrs. Lyda King, arrived and has proved most satisfactory. Through her regular services in examining" the pupils of the vari- WiOTHER! Fig Syrup' Dependable Laxative for Sick . Baby or Child lvacies and Children love to take genuine "California Fig Syrup "S ..other laxative regulates the tender little bowels so nicely. It sweetens the stomach and starts the' liver and bowels without grip In jc- Contains v no narcotics v or soothing drugs. Say CalIfornia" to your druggist and avoid coun terfeits. Insist upon genuine "California Fig Syrup" which con tains directions. Adv. :SMsI' That needs healing. Skin thit is broken or pimply, red or rough, or inflamed with eczema. Use the best help mod ern science knows. " - The itching or pain is now stop ped instantly. -The' healing is done so quickly that it often seems like magic AH 'in a new way, ibased on decades of skin study. -V Sulphur . is the germ destroyer. Wo "can never expect to. find a bet ter help for any skin - eruption. But" "a new-day formula, called Mentho-Sulphur, brings multiplied results. ' - . ' . Alt discomfort ends the moment you .apply it. - Healing starts at once; .Complete results often come -with amattag quickness. . Countless people are proving In this way that such troubles are avoidable. . Anyone can do so. Just ask your druggist far a jar of Ro"ies Mentho-fiulphnr and watch it end those blemishes. Ton will gain' new respect for the. methods of today.-, --"-"--,1 -. .': , .'For Free Samples Address ' WHITEHALL PHARMA.CAL CO.. Inc. eats can be had. and where the kiddies -can be amused with mer ry-go-rounds and various games. To see tbem alt or even name them would make one giddy, but from the front, at least, they are inter esting to a degree. ? Spending too much of our time here We were unable to tour much ox the City beyond the business part so hunting up Anaheim street we followed it west over the low lands toward Wilmington. These lands are being filled in and drained, making ; sites' for some fv3iv System of Fat Reduction - ' ' - 'v -v - .ff . Hrra is a new tray for all fat people to reduee. A new wy t rid yoarsU eaaily and quickly Of the kardcsome fat which make yoa aaisersble. Why ehotdd 7 let jroarself go. feiigminz yoreH to beins fat, whan by luios Marmela, Prescription Tablets, yea can becom -slender- again t Thonsands of men . and women each year regain healthy, slender figtrrea this way. Yoa, too, ran take off your excess -flesh in thia same ptrasant manner. need for rielent esereiars or atarration diets. Jnet take ono araall Marmola Prescription Tablet after each meal and befor goinS to oea. in a very saort time year llabby tiesn win begin to disappear and soon yon will 1eeoae the. rroud possessor of a slen der, shapely figure. You, will . never be admired is long is ysu sre fat for fat 1 . 1 T . . . peomo are niways arng mini inn 01. rvai don t let that worry you. anymore. One of the foremost physicians, of Ma tiaso dis eoTered the Marmolst Prescription- for fst. redaction end ho also conceived the' idea of puttinjr it tip in tho convenient' tablet form. All yon aara to do i t. e to yonr drucs'ist an! pet boa.' Or if a prefer, tend the price on dollar to th 'Us mola Company, Oenerat Metort SntlXS Detroit; Kieh and a bo -will bo aobt y yon postpaid. Start taking these pleasant littl tablets f now -yon "13 always be clad that : ytm decided to try them. if any of yonr f. have used tltaa 535 llziz-.i Atb.' New Toxk, N.T.uccMfuUy. Air, mammouth industries, and corpor ations. "To our left we passed San Fedro with its harbor and lumber docks. This is one of the busiest places on our west coast even now. and they claim there that it Is just an infant. . . Back and to our right . extends the forest of oil derricks. Some have the pumpo running while others seem to be pumped out. Here and there will be seen one being just put. into operation. A casual observer would think there was enough oil drawn here to sup-1 ply th6 world, and a few years ago, no doubt, be would have been right, but the Increase In -carbureters Is taking care of the out put nicely. As to by-products, well, asphalt and carbureters are chums. - r ' ''. Next Wilmington Is Harbor City. This is one of - the will-he's and shows much preparation and a fine location. " The road then takes to the open where barley fields are beginning to green the hills. -After so much civilization it is good to breathe the country air again. The road is fine and smooth and winds around the ba6e of the hills, occasionally climbing so that distance can be seen. After rounding the Palo Verde hills we swung in to the beach again at Cliftbn-By-The-Sea. Here are some homes of note facing the restless Pacific, their walla hold the blowing sand. A Queer little moss-like plant that seems to need no nourishment helps, too, in binding the shifting, : sifting ground, and whether planted here or a native it adds it green to good effect. . ; L " ' We kept along the coast passing Eplande, Ttedondo and Hermosa, resorts . and home sites. At 1 Segundo, ' a Standard ' Oil City, where they have a refinery and a line of pipes carried far out - to where ocean-going tankers may fill; we turned Inland a ways to avoid some rough coaat. but at Palisades Del Ray or as it is on the map, Playa Del Rey, we again comfe close to the water. This is another to-be resort, -although there is much already there and the hilL : south, is : being worked down for homes and streets. From here on it Is difficult to know when' one goes from one city into another. . Venice, 7 Ocean , Park, Santa Monica'' sit shoulder to shoulder and even seem, to elbow each other a little at times. 7 ' - The - speed-way, called .so .be cause, (I suppose) at 4 an early date it might have been used .for bicycles to make "better time on than they could on the loose eand. connects them.' It 4s , more like an .alley and the pavement rough and somewhat "'shot" but it is the only, straight nine between them and consequently is packed with machines, stages and busses. Be tween it and the water is a wide concrete walk, used by the pede stralns and also by a queer little bench that has sn electric motor stowed undent some; "where "wit n wheels; rollers jor j castors - that niake remarkably . good time, r If one is not la too much hurry H 19 a good method of getting, from one of these cities to the other. la these three places there is so much to see that: it will take a day by Us " self so we hurried on up the speed way to Ocean avenue and a feed'of fresh rock-cod. . -'; C, V. Ashbaugh, Brooks. ous schools in the county she has been instrumental in having many defective children brought into Salem for operation or treatment. In cases where the parents were not ia position to pay for opera tions doctors have been found in Salem and in other Marion county towns who graciously did this work free of charge. The hos pitals gave their operating tables and hospital care free of charge. Mrs. King has found many cases of tuberculosis. These cases have been brought to the attention of the proper authorities, examina tions made, x-rays taken and ap plications sent in for hospital care. Marion county has long since filled-her quota in the State Tuber culosis hoBpital, but we have been able to get a number of patients In there for treatment, several of them school children. Our fourth Christmas seal sale was i started off the day after Thanksgiving. While In some dis tricts the sale was larger than ever before, many others eame far below the average. Over $100 worth of seals were lost in the mails, so, altogether, out total was below that of last year. The total for 1923 being $2220.46 and for 1924 it was $2197.50. Only $2187.50 of this shows ' on the bank book.'the other $10 having been sent to the Portland office by mistake and was afterwards credited to us. Of this money $765.16 la Marion county's share, being 35 per cent of the whole, or .4 and a fraction seals per capita. I am sure all who hear this account of Marion county's seal sale will go home firmly determined to raise the per centage to 55 per cent for next year. It can be done, and must be done if we, as an association, ever expect to do anything worth while. : : At this time, of the $765.16 we have left $192.40, $572.76 having been paid for salary and expenses of our nurse since December of last year, three and one-half months. - In every health center we will at once inaugurate a membership drive, the price being 50 cents per member, so tbat when Dr. Walter H. Brown has completed his five year demonstration Marion County Child j Health association will be on the ground with a full health unit all. her own to continue the good work now being demonstrat ed for us. In order to do this we must not only give him and -his agents every , possible assistance, but keep our association busy with our own community prob lems. Wherever Dr. Brown establishes a community, center our agents In that center must provide a loan chest for the use of his nurses In emergency cases. Not necessarily new articles, but enoughwhole, clean sheets, pillow EVEREST CLIMBERS F0UP.D BUTTERFLIES ; AT GREAT ALTITUDES ? LONDON, March 28 The can nibal spiders that live near the top" of Mt. Everest exist at higher altitudes' than airy other animals known to man. They ! were de scribed recently to the Royal Ge ographical Society by Major R. W. G. Hingston, naturalist of the Mt. Everest expedition of 1924. j These spiders live in islands of broken rock surrounded by snow and ice, and for food they eat one another. Traces of this per manent -animal existence were found far above the Himalayan snow line, and some- 4000 feet above the last vegetable growth, Major Hingston explained. A general Idea of the natural life on the mountainous desert of the Tibetan plateau was given in the lecture. The atmosphere is so dry that the skin and nails of "human beings split,, and the ord inary decomposition of flesh is prevented altogether. I ; Wild sheep and mountain hares climb up the ranges, even to the barren slopes at 17,000 feet. "There is a little red-start which builds its nest at the same inhos pitable height, and we found grasshoppers at 18,000 feet, near the furtherest ' line of vegetable growth," Major Hingston declared. "There were-bees,, moths and even butterflies at 21, COO feet, he said, "and doughs, a. kind of crow, at the immense height of 27,000 feet' To contend with the scarcity of food in those regions, some of the birds had specially modified bills for digg'ng Into frozen soil, so that they might reach , hibernating " in sects. Burrowing and hibernat ing "are the means by which many animals escape the extreme cold and manage to exist. Some "birds formed communi ties with mammals. Many little birds associated with ' mouse hares, and there was "perfect con fidence and harmony among them. At greater heights, on the almost barren mountains, was an assoc iation of doughs and wild sheep. The clough sit3 on the sheep's back, and searches for Insects In the animal's hair. England Perfecting Control ' Of Airplanes By Wireless LONDON, March- 28 Certain residents ,or the south coast of England were much astonished recently when an air flying ma chine1 fell into the Ocean ahd the authorities showed no undue an xiety about the fate of the pilot who, it was assumed, was aboard. After a while the air force men calmly put out In a skiff and tow ed the fallen plane to shore. - The secret then leaked out that th"e machine had been without a pilot and that the accident was brought about by the plane passing be yond the radius of the wireless controlling force. It was then learned for the first time that "the planes seen for" many weeks past circling In the air over this territory had all beei without pilots; the control was by radio from a shore station. TRICK VOTING ClfECK-MATKD MONTEVIDEO, March 2S -Uru-guay believes it has put an end to fraudulent voting for public of ficers, a practice that flourished exceedingly, and with many in genious evasions, in previous elec tions. :. V At the recent polling for nation al senators each "voter had to pre sent an elaborate card bearing his number, name and surname and any other name by which he was known, bis signature, his photo graph and his finger print. cases, towels, layettes and such other necessities. as they may re quire. We have ; a hopeful health giving period ahead or us. Let us go into It with all our hearts, each voicing with the other to the extent of our services. You will be at The Mountain '-. of ' Dread Adventure 1111 THIEF OF BAGDAD m ring Opeiiiug At French Shop Authoritatively expressing The French Shop ver sion of the "Spring Styles" in settings of appropri ate beauty Ay The Newest and Best in MiDinery and Gowns V We invite all Salem people and visitors in the city to be our guests Monday and succeeding days of this week. . ' .s '--"'.. . . . The French Shop r M. Buffe . Morrison 115 N. High St. Masonic Temple SERIOUS LB DUBLESTARTS VT II ; nvatdans wan against neglecting congas and colds and teU of tbo aerlons la.Bg complications tbat nay remit. Lead ing phyalclsna now prescribe BAXSAMEA for ail bronchial affections. BAXSAMEA w a par vsgotablo preparation aaads frssB awwly dlacOTsrsd- plant. lr. Bon), r. Crabtree, Anderson, Mo, writes: "I nso tt exclusively tor my practice and any lamUy. It 1 snick, sure and safe In fta action Uko atotaiaf else." - ' Toward titm end of the ioflneoxa cpt iemte a gtrrermaeat physician noticed that a tribe of Indians in Nerada by th in ef .oils from a natire plant were immune Troin the ravages of Influenie. He nsed theaa oils aaioag his vhito patients and then in a bospital orerflowing with "death" cases. Kews of the results swept the world and for some time it was not posiible to supply toe demand. BALSA1CEA has now been standardised and giro nnifornly miraculous result in four ways: 1. It soothes th inflaiaed asembranos and - relir irritation. - 2. It increases, secretion of mncous and pr fits easy expor-torattoa. - Si It stimulates pores ef th skin in throwing oft body poisons and 4. It strikes -at ths cause, checking germ action Immediately. Xo not eonf as it with ordinary balsam rongh syrups that are only soothiag sy rups and .do not go to the base of the trouble. TJnliko oUJer eongh remedies BAJLSAMEA is free from cos! tsr and other harmful narcoties. Fleasant to take nd absolutely safe to fire to children. f Be tranryw ft BAL-BA-aTB-A irttb tbo eictore of the . Indian tt the package. Onaraateed to relieve any cough, no mat ter from what cause, or your dsmt back. JHiiilmii' ii. i in ill w mil n win W- in i I nil in I tor ' Chronic Perry' Drug Store j M V . UmmmM wSmlS : t .Hi ! I- il . - ' . - - - - " . .... i - : . ' " - Another big shipment of slightly soiled, smoked. Pendleton Blankets will be on sale to-morrow-Never in our history has there ever been such an event-Neyensuch prices-values probably never again Buy now for the future Buy for your friends who cannol comein '- . ' .' : Another Big Shipment of Pieced Values to $9.00 SINGLES lanliets on Sale Holiday - t! s ,... , .. t Regular Values to $18.00 DOUBLE . t --r' j k - Must be sewed together - Big Lot of Smoked . J t 'T. . . - .... m " Virgiii Wool H1RT Regular $5.00 Two Big Lots of Imidliaiiii ROB Regular $10.00 CT1 TH m S Recxlar G15.CD n-m ) I I Hundreds of botli single and double blankets in plaids, plain and solid colors arc cc!r during this sale. Only a few days left-so don't wait-Come in tomorrow, ; r BISHOP'S CLOTHING & WBdEB LULLS MB S j v 1 I f X;.