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THE OREGON. STATESMAN SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY MORNING; OCTOBER 2 1 I92T; 1 3 f i i i, IH i i! i ii Zmm4 Dally Except Moadar by -ITATZSXAX rVXUSEXVa C0K7AJTS IIS Saata Cemaarcka fiv. 8la. OrmfM B. J. Haa4rlk tni 4. Tmm C. K.Ui La Ma South - - Aa4rad Baaeh ' kaaarlBf-Iliur . - C biter Tlffraib Ed tor - - bactaty War I W.H.Hb4mm CltMUHoa MuiW Ralph H. Klatstaf . A4trti;i lUaagw TTk Jatkaakt MuimMI)p1 K 4. Baata -... tTMtoek Edit W.aOMtar - - - Owlrrr Udtte tHTMTTIg Cr YHB ASSOOIATID FUSS Ta AwvrfiUj PrtM U axelutivaly aatltiad i mim ta HkMt lUpatcfcaa erad'. ta ii ar at atkarwUa eratiit4 this w ai fta BaLtUaM aaraia. . , .. -. - --v- BUSINESS C7TICE3 ikn Byvn. S3ft Woreaatar Blag,, FartlasA. Ora. r. Clark Ca- Na Tart. 19S-1SS W Hit St M..,i ... rtn. Dety Payaa. ttwi Bias, Baa rranelaca. Calif.; Rigfiu Bloc. Laa tavlea. Calif BtttMtr OffiuS Srt . ftaalaty gdltar,. , TELEPHONES J Cimlatloa Offloa-MI Xaws D?srtabaat IN - - Jab Daaartmaat . . XatarW at tka Poat Otttea la Salaaa, Oragam, a Meoad-el laaa October 1M, 1025 ;. , - -THINK OF THE HARVEST: Whatsoever a man soweth, that hall he' also reap. Galatiana 6:7. EGYPT STUDIES OREGON. HIGHWAY SYSTEM MY HUSBAND'S bell sounded, four alternate -long and short rings, hd Mrs.' Marks her face align t rushed Jo,the push button in the wall..-.". .. . I fill I" ' I . '.'That's Mollie's ring now.", she LU I Lj (TO BE. CONTINUED) ADELE GARRISON'S NEW PIIASS I EDITORIALS OF THE I penp r-... . m REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright, 1923. ky . Newspaper k'aatura Serviea. Iaa Mohamed Hassaan, the engineer for the main roads and bridges department for the. Egyptian igovernment, with head- . quarter? in' Cairo, the principal commercial city of that coun- V try, with a, population of oyer a million people, is in Oregon ' studying our highway system V - " ; .1 , And he comes to the right placed " 'y -' , - .ot we have the best highway system in Che world and Marion county has the best paved market road system of any - county or district on earth., . . . . , Not that we have the best paved roads in the world though we have as fine tmes as any country or district but we have, the best planned systems for securing the fine, high- ways and distributing the costs to those who can and ought i to 'pay them." i ' ' j' v''-; Egypt already has some macadam roads,: but she is in the restless automobileage, and her forward looking people i think they can afford paved roads Hence their, government has sent Mohamed Hassaan for a trip of two years, to find out how good roads and bridges i are built; according to modern plans in other countries. He Bpeak8 Arabic. That is the language of his people. He Is a descendant xf the Arabs who were once the most learned of j all jthe people of their, time.' "He might be mistaken, for an 5 American of , the Jewish race. He also speaks French and ; English. He spent a year in France, studying their road ; systems. He was for a! time in England, and in other coun ! tries. He has studied the road systems of our eastern states,! v and is now here, on the! last part of his quest. s He will soon riepartC if or ne is due home in December t , It,is a dbtinction worth-while that the country ol the I pyramids, looking down upon, her people from an; antiquity of. more than forty centuries, should send her highest repre - sentative in that branch to study the Oregon highway system i r-ta find out how . we build paved, roads :.iuii''iprMJ4gc!fc I Egypt could do no better than copy our whole system, and to I keep up with our progress . :"K 't ; For we are making progress all the time.1 We - are build ' in'g better roads than ever, and getting greater values for our expenditures. And this is said without discredit to the pio neers'. There had to be pioneering. Better roads will still tie built here, and they will all the time be as good as any one can " 'build. . I 4 ; Mr. Hassaan says America sends to Egypt about half ' the automobiles used in! that country ; ; It is about fifty-fifty between - American and European make. He will soon be back within sight of the pyramids, showmg his people how to modernize their country by the construction of modern highways. From any, part of Cairo 4 at all times the pyramids are visible. They are twelve miles i distant from that city,1 . , y . CHAPTER F136 The Story or MolUe Mrs- Marks - Told Madge. Dicky often laughingly has ac cused me of having a card ladex mind. I was inclined to oelleye his statement when I noticed the embarrassment ot my apartment neighbor. Mrs. Marks, at my idle query as to the occupation of her friend Mollis, whose praises she had been singing.. For at her answer that the.girl. was a book keeper la a fur hottseI drew from my mental file, two other queer notes,' and compared them with the one which had just come un der iny notice. '.At our first meeting with Patey Marks and his wife, I had noticed the gorgeous fur wrap of real seal trimmed with mink which the woman wore. She had called my attention to it with childish ela tion and had begun a sentence "You see my husband is in the only to have it chopped short with a curt warning sound irom her husband. And a minute later in the hall outside we had heard the man savagely scoring his soouse for her indiscretion. That was Exhibit ArI told my self whimsically. Exhibit. B. I had deposited in iny brain card index but a few minutes before, when the inadvertently-opened closet door of Mrs. Marks had disclosed to my wondering" eyes a number of costly fur cloaks-Ahere must have been nearly a dozen of them and hid natentlv given my hostess an exceedingly startled and apprehen sive moment until my casual oe meanor had convinced her that 1 had seen nothing. And . now I was sure that she had started to sav "my husband s fur bouse. when she had been talking of the eirl. Mollie, but had changed her "Mnrion County Juries Editor Statesman? Did you ever notice the fact our Juries in Marion county are composed of a very, very large per cent of foreign names or foreign accent, names that the average nigh school boy or girl cannot pro nounce correctly? The writer has no prejudice against, these people born of parents that come from a foreign land : they can't help that fact, and they are good Americans, of most of them at least, but the thing that I can t understand and hundreds of others, is this: . Why make such names as the following so 'conspicuous by- their absence: Hunt., Joaes, Brown, Butler, Bak er, Tayjor, Smithetc? Good old American names, a lot of .- them southern names if you please, and tne sincereity and loyalty of the south' has never been questioned. TAXPAYER. Salem, Ore., Oct. 23, 1925. ',4 1 Bits For Breakfast 1 Ever see such weather? That's a common Question here. The answer , is that we see such fine weather almost every year here, at this season. W S S State street' 'barber says the hard thing about making money last is making it. firsts : Autocide Is sr aewvword a Sa lem garage man suggests for one who by reckless Tor "fool driving kills himself. V S It is a good, idea or, the Oregon Agricultural college to experiment with the- growing of flax. Too much cannot be done towards stabilizing the production of a plant that will yield a first grade long noer. mere is no money for grower or manufacturer In a short, low 'grade fiber. The best growers of the Salem district know pnraseoiogy ai boui uuucu .c- iamette yalle ou ht to know lt lection. ' jiiA t a all vnaanf Wh I "Uttl UlU w "i aaa. " "J I TlAtlrW cava T IisbIa v- omWm rt snomue laiurum, .. - m be a great market for foreign with the ferret eyes, whose per- eoaA anA lT,VMtm(,nt fhnf nli ... a . . l. Xa sonaiity was repuisive.io me s u wife's was singularly attractive. desir to conceal his ownership of of employment in a respectable and honored business? . Why should The Way They Met. T brought mvself UO With ; a round turn. It was no business oi mine. I assured myself, but nev ertheless I bestowed an unusual amount of care upon the sare be stowal of my mental notes. I had THE WOODROW WILSON MEMORIAL J, Friends and admirers of Woodrow WflsoniHall over'the country; are forwarding j the plamto establish a memorial to 4 him in the city of his birthStaunton, Virginia.1 'The house in which the war-president was" bqrn will be the central figure T In the birthplace memorial groups : ;' ' ' ' , ' . This recognition of the services of a man who went I through a great national crisis wiiout sacrificing the cour i age of his convictions,' who gave of his intellect and physica v strength to the extent of his health and life, is indeed worthy. ' Criticism of his political policies 'which are always de- i batable in all parties 1 and among all organizations of men ; directed toward him as an individual should have ceased with his passing. The good that he wrought and it was much- should be emphasized. To; Woodward Wilson, scholar, states man, progressive idealist and American citizen, the contem plated memorial is deserved recognition.' . i THE CONSTITUTION : -. Constitutional government in America is a real represen- tauve government, a government of checks and balances, "The duties of the executive, legislative, and the judicia I departments while interlocking are also clearly defined, y ' y , In spite of direful predictions from opposing sources f has continued to function until the present day. y As the people of the nation-have followed its provisions they have prospered.1 It is only-when we have strayed from the paths marked out f orkus by the Constitution that we as 'a nation have suffered. .. Our safety, progress and happiness as a nation depend upon our respect for and obedience to the Constitution. ,v ' v . ' y ; . . -This was a real representative eovernmentl a c-overn ment of checks and balances, with the duties of the executive ; the legislative and the judicial departments interlocking and clearly defined. And the most marvelous thing was that i ; worked and has continued to work until this' day." Asv the . people have followed it they have prospered, and It was only .. Al r .' . - ill i . h vnezi luey saajrea away irom me consutuuonai patn laa the nation has suffered. . ? ' , . the situation demands now is "firm relations, long term credits; mutual business trust and regu lation banking connections." (Yes. that is all it needs. Firm relar Hons with a government that is sending men and money far and wide to destroy the peace of other nations: long term credits for a regime that does not consider fts proletarian faith bound by a pledge to a capitalist or a hour geois: business trust in a regime that scorns the bourgeois morality of a contract, and regular banking some time I tnignt heed them." I flatter myself, however, that Mrs. Marks had no shadow of an Idea 1 had noticed either the fur cloaks in her closet, or-her slip in answering me. With a light little laugh, I made a banal, cas ual comment: "Bookkeeping is a dull Job for girl as pretty, as you say your friend is. "You've said it!" Mrs. Marks returned with emphasis. "If I had her face and figger, you couldn't see me for the dust I'd be kicking un on my way to Holly wood. But Monies queer, as I told you, and I've give up trying to make her ouU I think an aw ful lot of the kid. though. I used to wheel her around wnen sne was a baby. Her folks lived In the next flat to ours, but the rooms wasn't anything like these, I'll tell the cock-eyed world. They was a fierce proposition. But we used to fhave , good times down on that old street. Poor Mollie! As she talked ' she had been busying herself with setting out cups and saucers,, plates and flat silver for two on the table wnicn occupied the place of honor in the center of the room, and wbicn was covered with the most sedate piece of embroidery I ever had. seen In my lifel If there was a color of the rainbow emitted in tne intri cate stitches, I did not detect it, while. its flora would hate made a botanist tear his 'hair. ' Mrs. Marks saw me easlnc at It In a nuzzled awe which she mistook for admiration. "That's Mollie's Ring Now." I done that when I was a girl, she said, a bit shyly. "I remem ber Mollie was a little bit of a thing then, and she . used to sit by me and held the embroidery silks for me as quiet as a little mouse. How proud her poor mother waa of her!" ! She signed prodigiously, and. I knew that I was - expected to sit with a question, the reminiscences which she was as patently; .enjoy Ing. , u "Your friend . has lost-" her mother?" I asked. " "Not only her mother.' but every bit of kltfiand kin belong ing to her, except some cousins In the old country that have done her autyof the little bit of property she's entitled to over there. There was a fire in the , flat one ; day when Mollie was away at school. and when she came .home .they was an gone, mother, brother and two sisters. "Her father had died two years before, so the poor kid was all which founded itself, on repudia-f tion and confiscation.) Chicago Tribune. BIYSBOYS t mm M Paddle -Social Last Nisht Is Huge Success: Fine Pro gram is Offered Nearly 250 boys, members of the boys division and their friends, enjoyed a big time at the YMCA building last night. The invitations to the affair asked the boys to bring a paddle and a friend, and all during.-the after noon the phone was kept busy answering calls about "that pad die." But tne boys snowed up in great style, some - bearing large and dangerous. paddles, while the ft hers carved, out miniature ones. Boys arrived , at . the ' building as early as 5 o'clock and besieged the secretary : witn z . requests to go swimming, and the fun was on. The first event oT thV evening was a swlnr for those wha eared to swim; -while others amused' them selves in the gym or game room.. Bob Boardman was master of ceremonies, and was ably assisted by members of the senior boys leaders', club," to whom a large part of the credit for the success of the social was due. The "wel come committee" was made up of Ed Marr, John Sen after and Bob Judson. The athletic sports were carried on : by , Chuck Simpson Warren Keeney. Clair Miller, Olat Blixeth and Ray Miller, while Hp- mer Smith and John Sills were re sponsible for the serving of the sweet cider and doughnuts. (As usual,, there was no filling-up ot the boys.) ? -- , ' ' , After a;few games In the gym the boys assembled at the piano in tfcfl lobbvi nd were - led r by. Mr. Glii of Kimball college, in a few songs, and much amusement was had by the contests between thel various group. -:"?. KE;. Goodwin state YMC secretary, spoke a fewrords to the boys, and J. B. Crary, .the new boys work secretary. was; intro duced to the boys, and responded with a. few remarks and a story. The wirty closed , at 9 : 30; o'clock, the boys i having enjoyed a fine evlnr. snd hoping for more Of a like kind, all expressing a desire be getting Into the new build ing. - ,' " ' yA v iv n u ; ' --y u A ilk aunidl Fme "Woolen BEGINNING TODAY y. r?,,Ti Alkonit . Tre-Tone Balbriggan Twilline Charmeen Botany Flannel tv, KMALtY PliOT OP" GROtrT PRO DUCES AT HIGH RATE it; alone, except for my mother and me," she went on. "I can feel her TIIDCD YIPLD IS i LARGE little body shiver yet. I held her IUBtn : U -Hnut In my arms all that night, and she never shed a tear. Just shook all night as if she was packed In ice. And she's never forgotten It. She'd stick to me till the hot pUce froze over, Mollie would." ' - ' -f - She was frankly teary over her reminiscences,: wane. I ; was con scious or-a aeen curiosity to see the girl TRh so trarie a histnrv. and so engaging amersou and per-i sonality as Mrs. Marks Ta23 de scribed. And then the apartment v'WAur..: WALLA, W3?h.. . Oct. 2 z.iA -pldt of ground IS feet wide d lift fet 16ng. !b- Ion ring, to George Thompson, local police ser geant, produced vi 080 pounds of weet potatoes this year.' Mr. Thompson nlanled the Sobers 4 ix rows.' This would mean thM. an acre prodncing like this pl"p would net over S1000. , . - 1 V ' iii i anur. i uu! an i oi i tsj. Vtrm. Ill - .; hi t iv - Velvet Combinations Baronette Crepe Crepe Faille Canton Crepe Frocks; Aire Gracious aod XlSlaire ithe of 'that one can , wear frorri' morning until night, and always look well-dressed, and for this reason they are indispensable to the well dressed woman., (enA satin ari innf;;aw iJTCT -u an tne important fabrics are inrlnHoH rJhoiwin arA j;,;n.i,;. a.,av.. jt; msh eachlace collars and cuffs, embroidery, applique and colorful pipings. In lack, navy, cocoa, reseda, green, wine,.red and other fashionable tones. i3pparelr SeciSon--Mam Floor Ealeai leading Department , Ctorf .- - is