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..f-v-. THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2.V1D23 K Wear Statesman: a species - of the swine family known as the "road hqg", on Jnlj 25th, the Dingbat family gathered in force and started ont in pur suit, it was onr aim and purpose to capture a lull grown lire speci men for clone scientific study be fore be is driren into' the morass of final extinction by an unsym pathetic public that 'cherishes the idea that Ithaa some rights on our highways. We were, deter mined to make this conquest if we had to chase him clear through to Chicago, on to Detroit and back oyer the mountains by way of Denver, Salt Lake and other hiber nating places, where he seems to thrive and grow fat. We thus hoped to become benefactors to the race of road runnels, and in cidentally, (only Incidentally, , of course) to see the honored name of Dingbat written In letters of fire all along the highway of our country. , . --; Alas! ; Worthy ambitions are often side tracked by untoward circumstances. Best laid plans go wry. So up to the present, with about half the ground covered, we have achieved no tangible results. True . we saw several splendid specimens, i but they Were always going so dinged fast we couldn't get our hands on them. The one we wanted most got: away clean, while we were paying M S S for sprung axle.! We hoped to find him in the ditch further on, but the fates, fickle as some; judges I have known, ruled against us. We hare not entirely abandoned hope, but munft say that this species of the swine family is more rarely met with than we anticipated "There lis a reason." : possibly there many minor reasons; but the one outstanding, and predom inant reason is sobriety,; Thanks to Volstead and his rec ipes. It .must be admitted that In many; very many cases, sobriety Is not a matter of choice yet. You will meet men who would be de lighted to get gloriously drunk, to enact the old drama of the western; miner's camp. life. But it their number is dwindling. - Not M l . .11 A ilovoH nrnmlnant Trt. In the hey; day of the western mines would take up the old life again if opportunity offered, and of those who yet long for the "flesh- pots," the rapier of time, is rapid ly thinning their ranks. Say what you please, the general en forcement of the prohibition law has had a wonderful effect for good clear across the continent. Let me say that in traveling on the principal highways clear across seven states and probably 50 or 60 miles of the eighth, we fcever met. or eajr.a.single man or woman that, showed any signs of Intoxication. So I place the Vol stead act preminently first as a reason for our failure to bag the road hog We started after. In the! old days, can you remember the "dead men" ! (whiskey bottles) itrewn by the wayside on our principal roads? They seem to bare all been buried out of sight. (or though I kept close lookout III the way I saw but one, and I was told that , rattle snakes were mighty bad in that aone, (Every thing n divided into tones on these state roads.) ' And In my great charity I can forgive that fellow, tor providing his family with plenty of camphor,' though I contend, and shall continue to in sist,, that since the bottle was empty, he should have bid it. My record then would have been as free of I "dead men" as of drunks. One more thing I want to men tion that contrblutes to the safety of motor-traffic on the state high ways: All paved roads are marked In the middle throughout; not on curves alone, but' the entire length, with a stripe, say, three Inches wide, and every motorist is required to keep inside the. stripe, except he may pass the one-banded loye-lorn idler under proper re- THE DINGBATS' ROAD RAMBLES Xot at Drunk Un on the Highway from Orecon. to Michigan, ad the I toad Hogs Wen More Scarce Than Expected strictions. J We hare covered nearly 3000; miles of our trip and have , not seen a single accident, except of minor , importance, as punctures, flat tires, etc. We did pass one bey who had fallen off his motorcycle, scratched his face a" little, just enough to gather a crown and have a good time re tailing his wonderful adventure; but he couldn't interest the Ding bat family, since we noticed that he selected a nice soft, level place to fall on, When plenty of , preci pices were f all about. , , On our course of 3000 miles, we never traveled an Inch after dark, nor did we encounter any rain till just as we reached this point In Michigan, near, Detroit. .; If your readers can "stand the gaff" it will be our pleasure to take up some: other subject, feat ure of our rambles. In the near future, for further infliction. 1 DINGBAT. Rail Engineer, Driven io Verge' ' -;flg5g- of Madness by Autoisis, Quits Claims Made for Insulin , in Non-Diabetic Patients Tokyo Newspaper for Blind Is First of Kind in Japan TOKYO A daily .newspaper printed in. Braille, the first pub lication in:' Japan for the. blind, recently has been issued. It con sists of two sheets printed on both sides,! giving four printed pages of news for .those who can not see. P. Kimura, - a wealthy Japanese philanthropist. Is financ ing the enterprise and the editor is S. Hirohasi. i r,"-r -- As all newspapers in Japan are censored, the Tokyo police author ities are somewhat ' embarrassed as to how censorship can be ap plied to the new publication as it is claimed no one in the police de partment is familiar with the Braille system. Animals in Park Are Terrified i by Tumult SEATTLE Long suffering deer, elk and' bears in Woodland Park Seattle's zoological tract, verged so vividly on nervous pros tration this summer , that, move ments were; set afoot to provide them new quarters. Fumes and noises from automobiles and the chatter of .the crowd have been too much fof them. OtOher ani mals in the park do not seem to mind civilization. The deer j and elk are confined tn nan-acre tracts whtcn are bounded on: three sides by roads and crowded with traffic. The bears are In cages of steel and concrete, . - , nans lor renei centered on quarters deeper in--the park-, which contains .200 acres; - covered In large part with heavy Douglas fir forest..' '(0 SAMMY ! SPARK PLUG j -m in i i in ' n,-r 1 . - y 1 i i --ft- ma tmLmmmi Cntral torn ' - ' ' - VIENNA At the last session of the Austrian Medical association Inresticators reported, and others corroborated, that the adminlstra-! tion of Insulin to non-diabetic per sons resulted in a very intense and healthy stimulus of the appe tite, enabling a mac la ted and con valescents to eat three or four times what they had been eating and resulting In a rapid Increase In weight. In some cases the accumulation of fatty tissue was so great that it was found necessary to decrease the doses soon after the beginning of the treatment to prevent desu garization of the blood beyond the normal degree.' This Is consider ed as welcome news for those en gaged In the treatment of the early stages of lung affections as well as unsightly thinness. ; DAMAGKS 'AFFIRMED - - t OLYMPIA, Aug. 21. The su preme court affirmed the Yakima court in awarding Hugh McGinnis a verdict of $600 for personal In juries received when he fell Into a light well of an apartment house in Yakima on the evening of Sep tember 26, 1923. The courts held that owners. L. C. Keylon and Ed ward B. Luckri. were negligent in that they bad no( kept a light burning to light the passageway so that it would be sate for ordinary use. WICHITA, Kansas, Ang. 21 Because motorists threatened to make a nervous wreck out of him, George Lahey, veteran locomotive engineer, has stepped from his cab and accepted a Missouri Pacific pension. He was in the railway service for a half century and an engineer for 46 years. "You can't tell what the motor ists will do," he complains. "Some of them deliberately tantalize us by driving up to a crossing at full speed in sight of an approach ing train and then just as a crash seems unavoidable and the en gineer is putting on the brakes ror all he , is worth, the motorist comes to a sudden stop and laughs. He thinks he has done something smart, but it sure shortens the life of an engineer. "Other motorists approach more slowly, then speed up Just before they reach the crossing in an ef for to beat the train. These are the ones usually involved in cross ing crashes." , Thrice did an engine Mr. Lahey was piloting strike an automobile. Each time, however, the motorists escaped injury. So he quit the road with a record clear of any serious accidents. Guess how he intends to spend the rest of his life? In traveling. German Theatrical Stars Rebel Against Salaries i BERLIN The questions "what is a star In the theatrical profes sion?" and "who shall determine who are! the stars?" are only two points of the many sided con troversy between the German Theatrical association and the per formers i which has gone into the courts. jThe assocfation fixed $75 as the maximum salary for "prom inent artists' and then was In strumental "Vn-naming a . special commission to determine what is a "prominent artist?" and who is entitled to the maximum salary? In the first place those who had been demanding and getting more than $75 for a performance re belled and in the second place the stars refused to recognize the special commission. The two sides went into court. where counsel for the association intimated that the stars, so far as their profession is concerned, still we.re living in the period of inflation. Judging, from the de mands made by them. These, counsel said, ranged from a guar antee of 8,000 marks and 30 per cent of the proceeds up to 17.800 marks. The 'latter amount was named as the price for a perform ance demanded by Madame Jerit ta. As a sort of compromise the court suggested that the salary limitations for "promincnts" ex pire July 30. 1926. but the asso ciation flatly refused. Another ef fort to reach some sort of settle ment will be made in court at a later date. j We are now ascnts for United States Says: A pusher never needs a puIL but a puller mar need a push. If your engine lacks poll try a pvnh give it naw spark plugs. AVTO LAUGHS gmid tks ittr$ittd by-tUndr f tt lirtd nrrw, teAa imi ehan? if Hrtt, "Having muck troniU With blew-omtif - -Xtne," laid t met tilt. bUt$r ly, "I, blow ont fin. Tk Irtt bit co!f in fetching f Jbst." f When Your Car Breaks Down Call Our race Cm j (Equipped with Wrecking Crane) s ; We answer either city or. 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