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- r : r . , 1 - f w .- . THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON . . . , SUNDAY MORNING,. DECEMBER 13, 1925 JMIESCffi Bf TELEPlKE USE teahyr' Wichita, ? Head -: of V'Small Debtors Court," Gets Results i : ; -WICHITA,4 Kans. David Leahy of .WlchltavTdean of Kansas news paper ..ihen, is one" judge in the jt'nHedL' States, rhd tries cases by .telephone.. ' " '. ' '. -;jrV-;" v - tie la judge 'of the smai debt ors' court," permission for the es tablishment" of wlifbh waj granted 'by the last legislature. ' ' -' -;A telephone rings in a Wichita business house; ':':.''. "Hello: This" is Judge Leahy. We want to get your testimony in regard to- the Jahe3 ,; vs. Jones case.7 And so the testimony is taken, .to be incorporated in the court, records and used as the ba Is for a decision:; ; , The'telephone cases" are de cided by judgr Leahy hrtef all the evidence is collected, and then hi decision' is mailed to the princi pals. ; '" ' .'Judge Leahy's courtroom is a poor place for a lawyer. He him self receives no compensation for his services,- anil legal lights are barred - from admission ; unless they wish to be mere spectators. ' Even the courtroom . is. aban doned in the sudHner time. Most of the cases decided this jpast sum mer 'were heard on Judge Leahy's front porch. The seat of Judg ment .was a rocking chair; the de fendant and plaintiff took their, places at the counsel tables the front steps." .' V -. In the 200 cases "tried, since the Institution of th courtwith out cost--not .an' appeal has been laken from judge Leahy's' i deci sion. Only persons! whose y con troversy involves a sum of 20 or less ' are admitted to the court. Many t potential cases are settled "out of codrf by Judge Leahy's . getting the , principals together ,and talking it over with them. : .Wicfhita's charitable judge acts as a Judge even outside of, office , hours. Recently, two prominent eastern' authors found themselves embroiled In a" controversy over the color of "Wild Billv? Hickok's hair, "Wild BilV noted f rentiers mau 'was' dtr Intimate friend :of Judge Leah" when, Kansas' was HM 1n hbrt tl-ousers. ' '! The controversy. was referred to the I. Kansas -newspaper "man. ;WiId Hi'a hair, was straw-col- u ui ut-i 1&JUU. T i no oin wpoft-cuts make it look dark." f'resldingrover a small debtors' court seems . to lake . the Judgment PC fir S61omibn"J observes Judge Lrfahy. rbu'tiri ofilytplairi.ffeom mbr sense." T ' "Pitees That 'Move,. . Plant tine of state's Unique Curiosities ; ; . v.- . South Attd West ISMfiuHoMns::..:: fn Better Hpmes Cotiipeiiiion In Which 2,000 Communities -'Zif ' 1 v..;..)....-;;. i, . r.n t (, .iiu ') i , i 1 T" t 1. 4 if - 41 i LpS ANGELES Only a half ; jjub trom me Humming . sthdjos of Hollywood 'and Culver City; '-where" the movies march on ', to their appointed future with a great blare of publicity, there is a placewhere time has stopped and where one may see the film Indus try in its swaddling clothes, ialve ly. offering to the. passerby i"Plc .tures That Move!" fo- t . v . r - Jt Js in Uu hadbt nvifu r " i!'I;ge:Lo!r iAr?lee;:where Jim Jeffries is still heavyweight cnampion flfLthfiL world and where on! the picture postcards of hv. rone era. Gldrta Swanson' still .wears ine bathing suit of her beach comedy days. ' j ? . . Here, in machines called Mnto. I cops. is .the great Jeffries-Shar; J ' ovemoer; :I899 Filmed by the old Biocraoh iom- pany in'New York, it at ill fH the' gaze of tne' ring fan wining to put, a penny in the slot and turn yet' an unknown;" of his Victory over w i iiar a so nint nas peaetrat . ed thia hldinc nliM at th - , 4ftd here,-: if cone hSs a ; qod .meniory.for faces . seen ;bnthe nickelodeon screen 'almost a score of' ypars ago'.' one may recognize otner : ieatures . still f amnia. and pernaps even lamotfs,: In Tlltnddm f n, his early association with , Bipgraph the man who later, dj rected -"The Birth' i"V6tf eatned a modest living directing these , quaint Mutoscope pictures which one seesy peering Into a . hollow contraption of metal, i If oneis not afraid of being seen in 1 these,: penny j arckdes,' and one J scathes long enough, it is "even possible to find somewhere Sthe Mutoscope in which David ' Wark v-;.- GrlfflTh acted.1 . f , " ;:i-:--r And after' a few hours, uspen't among the Mutoscopes ' of the penny arcades the student of mo tion picturo destiny may gafa'new respect for ' the r men -who, like Grjffith. took these crude and. cus tomarily spandalous one-minute comedy, affairs and out of, them, step by step, lifted motion pictures to .their present plane. I fj-; "i.. ' i .j . n --- ""' 'if -.iitoMtiimiop v?- " i ,n.. i, I-,, i I, i .j mill, Hi,, ,i. .I i i.i it. i .in ii i jj- "IjjfWfJjSyUa ',V js. o ; , f 4 - v lz.S v rr. I . T . , ...... lf.fi - i . r . it 'ss was boot at s cost of jonIy.fl.S15. and waa furnished throughout at a cost of a, trifle less than $00. Some of this furniture w&ssecond-li4nd: the balance waa Inexpensive, but waa comfortable, neat, and attrac tive In ltsel as well as la its ar rangement, v : The other demonstrations to these two cities Illustrated to their respective communities homes tastefully arranged and designed for families of somewhat larger In comes. The chief aim of the edu cational organization known as Better Homes In America la to II- i-TtJLKTA. GA- and Santa Bar- from a plan drawn by the Archi- lostrate ahd make a-vallable to the A -hifai-.CaTitr divided the first tecta Small House Service Bureau, minions of American families of prize tfl the 1925 Better Homes la This house of four rooms cost limited Incomes how Uiey can make America competitions '.ta . which $2,150. the lot beingvalued at ISSO. the most of their homes Trom the 2,noo.:AtoerlCn:" eommuniuest par- Tne nouse was mienaea ior occa- standpoints of beauty, comfort, and ticlpated. In each of these widely pancy by. 4 negro fainlly. and IU utmty; within the confines of the separated communlUea ; the , local furnishing and demonatratloa was family means. volunteer committees demonstrated tn charge of a negror sub-commit- Secretary Hoover Is president of several types of homes, suited to tee. Tne tunings were urao- B domes la America, and Mrs. the needs of various Income groups live, yet cost only IT50. Tvah.,.- . of tnelr populations.' In Santa Barbara; the . "No. S John IX Sherman, who la president - h- mtrtionn above show Home" was Intended as the home of the General Federation of Wom- -Home No. i S" In Atlanta which of a family of very limited income, en'a Clubs. Is a member of 1U waa built with slight modifications This nouae oi tnree rooms ana Data noara or airectors. . PerjpernimI Oil Price Soars Owing to Acute Shortage SOUTH BENi, Jnd K pound of peppermint oil now is worth its weight. in silver. , . An acute shortage, resut'.ing from. unseasonable frost and heut in May in southern Michigan and northwefet Indiana, where 60 per cent of ,the world's supply of pep; permint is produced ( ; reduced the crop 70 r per cent o rto ap proximately 250,000, pounds, i Throughout the late' summer and early fall peppermint. oil has steadily increased in price until it exceeded 517 a pound. , The maximum price last year was S4 ahtf ' f pnr years ago It was. S 1 . 2 5 . Gradually . the growers ar& JriftUik Howard a T single "pool"! through which they would mar ket their vollf when the demand price - is right. " In several in stances, farmers have been known to store their oil in safe ty deposit boxes to await furth er market advances. Manufacturers of tooth paste, candies, chewing gum, various toothache remedies and all other products which require pepper mint flavoring are interested in the cooperative efforts of the growers. The normal yearly con sumption of the oil is 400,000 pounds, ; Peppermint." plants, the oil of which is distilled from the leaves and' stalks, thrives best in heavy, mucky soil, found In the lowlands along the Indiana-Michigan bor der; The farms usually are small fifty or sixty acres. Under nor mal conditions two crops may be harvested each summer. ; Peppermint, first was introduc ed into - Indiana and Michigan about 1640. from Ohio. A quarter of a century before it had been imported from England. BIBLE STORY FREE TO 2,000 PAPERS (Continued from page 1.) half to tell the story of the Bible, Mr. Reid estimates. The bureau hopes to extend the Bible service to 14,000 weeklies and 7,000 trade publications and to interest more than 500 radio stations in broad casting -its sermonettes. Incorporated under the laws of Ohio in 1923. tho Press-Radio Bible service, which, during the three years previous was known as the Back-To-The-Bible-Bureau, has been existing upon voluntary subscriptions without support frbm any agency. KLAMATH FALLS. Masonic order lays cornerstone for new Episcopal church. V. - .MIL - - - . 5 oel J . M ' . (1 : 1 h V,...: .j' ' V-.: . - ' " "... . ' :""" .,.: ' estions Chnstrnds Giving v. -.vUVii ! Full fashioned Silk Hose in all of the new , ' shades such' as Tillc, Rochelle, Sunset, Rose, Beige, Madera ,51 V . ; . 31150 i .- ? 1 , ' Full fashioned Hose in Harvest, Cloth of v Silver, Flesh, Hogar, Maize, Beige, Honeysuckle, Blush; Rose Blush and jthe newest Rose Gray , 51.95 - ST.jiELENS.Plans ..approved for $1,000,000 paper mill, and cocfctructlon will tcgla soon, r 4. Shadow' clocked chiffon in shades of Beige, Blonde, Atmosphere, Cherub $2.95 Phoenix lace garter 'top, in all the wanted shades - ; $3.95 . YoUlI Make a Saving on Our : - 3 Purchase Flan 4 .' t . Rheims Is City With Homes Begging; 'Sales Slumping J RHEIMS Rheims is among the few cities; in France with empty apartments and a slumping indus trial real estate market." The re turn of the population has not kept pace with rebuilding and res toration, as there are only 75,000 inhabitants : as compared with 117,000 before the war. To the world. Rheims prenerally is associated first with cathedrals, and . the Champagne. Before the war, however. It was an important industrial city, where wool weav ing, . spinihg and bleaching em ployed 10,000 persons, now reduc ed .to about one-third of that dum ber. . . ' Land which at Armistice time sold for 10 to 30 frahes'the square meter, when it was thought that the. city would be itself , again in a short time, is now offered at from 5 to 10 francs. The "League for the Industrial. Commercial and Labor Develop ment of Rheims, has been formed to come to the rescue. Prehistoric Flappers Also Concealed Their Ears TUCSON, Ariz. Prehistoric flappers who lived In Mexico about 10,000 years ago used the same care in concealing their ears that the fair senoritas do today. The sheiks of that, period were more worried about their leg line than they were about their waist measurement. These are two prehistoric fash ion notes discovered by Dean By ron Cummings, professor of ar ehaelogy at the University of Ari zona, in his excavations in the pyramid of Cuicuilco, 12 miles south of Mexico City. j The flappers of the ancient day Instead of concealing their ears under the now prevalent barrage of hair used large disc-like ear plugs made of an American vari ety of jade. The sheiks of that time corded their thighs to give themselves a bandy legged effect that apparently was all the rage. ' Bandon Thrift Ranch incor porates for $40,000 to farm 840 acres. White teeth -and clean finger nails ate great helps in looking for a job. . , . are Practical , . ... They are Santa's most useful gifts. They riot only serve the recipient, but by making work easier and better, firing new happinss to all the household. We have everything from a hair curler to the most complicated washing machine all working by electri city and all necessities. Once you use them, you would never like to be without them. " ' Come in and see the multitudinous things we 'have here for Xmas. . ED DENNISON, The Electric Man Electric Fixture & Supply Co, Phone 1934 222 NORTH LIBERTY STREET ' fa AS THE . ' S ISywr Supreme : I 1 ' '(llpf Cfiristmtis Gift 1 1 ' .. ' - ' '-1 w I p - ' .: - " f All your friends and relatives will cherish a picture of the "baby.' It's something .they t can keep through the years. It's such fun to compare photographs taken at different stages, of his growth and 'development. V - Everybody loves the little fellow! They'd like noth ing better thah;to possess : splendid likeness of him! , Gdm in knd sed about it today! It s nbt too late to order pictures for Christmas. Ve will accept orders to deliver before Christmas up to Wednesday; December the 23rd. n ,'A Ki : - J - - 3, m 42 i ! i
