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Tit CrJZGOri STATESMAN, Cilcu Ore-ca, Thursday Uorrdzz, Jaacary ' "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall AtceT r From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 j i ' Chables A. Spracue - - Editor and Publisher , , THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . Charles A- Sprague, Pres. - - - -. Sheldon F. Sackett, Secy. Member of the Associated Press i Tba Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publl-av tlo of all imwi dispatches credited to It or wot otherwise credited ia .this paper. . 1 ,. State Taxes and Finances j THE recent flurry over state finances reminds one of a similar scurrying for an audit in early 1933 when the - state was forced on a warrant basis for a brief period and aH hands and the cook got busy to reconcile figures among the various state offices to determine just what the faired deficit amounted to. Auditors of the secretary of state's office, accountants from the treasury, and engineers with slide rules from the highway department did calcula tions until they finally agreed on a set of figures. In a few months the state was able to retire all its warrants, since then it has extinguished the deficit and accumulated a small surplus. - , ! Keeping books of account for the state is not a simple matter. The budget office prepares a budget based on esti mates of income available; the legislature makes appropria tions, with no limit on what it can appropriate, but with generally the good purpose of keeping within anticipated revenues. The tax commission makes its levy, estimating the amount needed from property taxes after deducting esti mated receipts from other sources. Money as collected finds its way into the state treasury. On the spending end the machinery works this way: payrolls and bills all go to the secretary of state's office. f ter they are checked for correctness and legality the secre tary of state issues a warrant on the treasury; for the pay ment. The warrants thus issued are paid by the state treas urer if money is on hand for their payment, as is generally the case. Thus it is seen that a great many departments of gov ernment haver to do with the provhion of income and the expenditure thereof for the state. In the secretary of state's office when appropriations are made books are set up show ing the amount of the appropriation. The aggregate becomes, the total liability of the state. But many times not all the appropriation istrsed; sometimes none of a special appro priation is used For general expenditures if the appropria tion is not used during the biennium the sum remaining re verts to the general fund; in this way there is always a little pick-up of money. Other appropriations stand until they are used, or until they are extinguished by law. For example the legislature is now expunging an old appropriation for a vault. When such appropriations are canceled the money then reverts to the general fund. j 1 Another i oint to be emphasized is that the state's busi ness is continuous. It does not have to have its books balanced on any particular day. Revenues are being received all the time; expenditures are being made all the time. For con venience and statistical purposes reports are made at bi ennial intervale. It is easily possible for the state to carry a bookkeeping deficit of a million dollars or so, because of the "spending lag", -not that a deficit is desirable or wanted. Still other points need setting out in primer style so v those unfamiliar with state finances may know the facts. The state constitution forbids a taxing body, to levy taxes in an amount which would exceed by more than six per cent the amount levied in any of the three preceding years. This puts a top limit on tax levies. However there are certain special items, voted by the people which are outside this limitation, either being fixed levies or limited in amounts. These include 1.2G mills for higher institutions of learning, a half -mill levy for veterans aid, and sum required for principal and interest on bonds issued when the state assumed interest payment . irrigation bonds. " ? When the income tax law was passed, in order to pre vent this new fund being used for added spending, it was written into the law that receipts of these income taxes should go to extinguish the levy on general property. First the income tax proceeds go to reduce or wipe out the levy made for general purposes, "within the six per cent limita tion"; after that levy is wiped out, as it is for 1937 the ex cess applies against the special funds "outside the six per cent limitation." So long as there was a deficit in the general fund the six per cent increase was added each year to deter mine the top limit for taxation. The mere fact that there are millions of dollars in the treasury does not mean all this money is available for general pending. The money belongs to separate funds and may be used only for the purposes for which those funds are created. The highway funds are for road purposes; the industrial accident funds for compensation .to victims of industrial acci dents; higher education funds for higher education, etc. This is all old stuff to persons in close touch with mat ters of state finance. New legislators, new office-holders have to learn the story when they come to Salem. That is one reason why competent, informed men need to be retained if nly to instruct the newcomers in the intricacies of tax laws and state finance. Growing A FAVORITE children's book of yesteryear was" "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew." The title suggests Itself in connection with recent news stories regarding tie budget office of the state. It was reported that years ago the budget was prepared in the office of the secretary of the board of control at a cost of about $2000 a bienniuml Then the office of -director of the budget was created for the late Sam Kozer with a salary of $6000 per year. The recommend ed appropriation for the budget division for the next bi ennium is $24,485.00. Another "little pepper" whose growth has been rapid is the property control department, a real newcomer, with an allotment of $35,652 recommended for it during the com ing biennium. f ; Now of course the test is not the direct cost of these de partments, but whether they result In savings to the state which more than offset the sums which the offices cost. The budget office has been a busy place, what with monthly esti mates of expenses from all departments, and so forth. What the final score would show we are unable to say; but the growth of these two divisions shows that it doe3 cost money, even to save money. i . !.:..;- :; M;; Admiral Bjrd. now lecturing In these parts, who declared some months ago his dedication to the cause of peace, has announced he would institute an effort to persuade all signatories to the Pact of Paris to declare a six-month moratorium on war. The purpose is good.and the effect might be beneficial; but in their present mood the belligerent powers would continue to pne up armaments in an ticipation of a touch-off at the end of the period. Besides, didn't the signers of the Paris peace pact renounce war foreTer. "as an instru ment of national policy"? S ... , . . I : . Rirer transportation on the Willamette has not become extinct. On the contrary the locks at Oregon City passed the greatest amount f cargo la history, says the Oregon City Enterprise.! The total was 403,260 tons, of which 112.800 tons were in logs, 1 1450 tons in piling and most of the remainder in paper. Navigation to Salem was discontinued in Salem or the total would hare been higher. Low water prevented resumption of steamer set-rice. , j With about all the 1200 for the first month gone there is only a Mule $lt In the tax kitty by which the 8200 was to be renewed in th Chelan. Townsend experiment. The theorists think the fund Is If -filling like the widow's erase of oil. How long ago was it the ehaln letter gag was enticing people with the promise of getting rich quick? - -. - ' . - . - The house appropriations committee has reported a deficiency hill of U99.717.31S for recovery and relief-. The division Is not made, nut probably the 1890,000,000 is for relief and the reminder far recovery. The troable la the relief doesn't seem to end with re- . ' - " ' - -:i "Peppers Bib for Brcclcfost By R. J. HENDRICKS Onr provisional . 1-28-37 government legislature was - unicameral from its beginning to Its ending: . V The Portland. OregonUn's lead ing editorial : for Tuesday, Jan nary 11, under the heading "One? House Legislatures, was infor mative; but it omitted! Oregon's own pioneer provisional govern ment legislature, j The Oregonian editorial . read : - . -y"; la i "A few days ago the Spokane Spokesman-Review remarked edi torially that the late j Governor Lister of Wehington long pre ceded Senator Norris in advoca ting a one-house legislature. The system adopted in Nebraska at the Norris instance was recommended to the. legislature of Washington by Lister in 1917 twenty years ago. V "This comment has inspired the Yakima 'Republic to remind its Spokane contemporary that- Gov ernor McBride of Washington, in an unsuccessful campaign for re election prior to the Lister admin istration, advocated the single house, legislature, and for that matter Nebraska is not the first state to have tried the plan. "Well, in Oregon, 25 years ago come next November, the people voted on the plan and rejected It. An amendment. Initiated by the People's Power League.) abolished the state senate. The amendment had other features such as pro portional representation in the remaining legislative house, ex officio membership in that body by the governor and unsuccessful party candidates for governor; the governor to Introduce all ap propriation bills with no power on the part of the legislature to increase, the amounts. The plan also introduced;, "proxy voting." That Is to say, each member was entitled to cast for or against a measure the number of votes he received in the election. "Two years later (1914). the State Grange, the State ' Federa tion of Labor and the People's Power League sponsored an amendment abolishing -the state senate, without offering any other frills or novelties. The 1912 pro posal was defeated by "the people by a better than 2-to-l rote; the succeeding simpler proposition was rejected by a nearly 2-to-l vote. "In the early days of the re public three states experimented with the single-house legislature. Following the Declaration of In dependence the continental con gress urged the separate colonies or states to set up constitutional forms of government In acquiesc ing, Georgia established a one house legislature in its 1777 con stitution, but changed to the dual form in 1789. The single-house system lasted in Pennsylvania from 1776 to 1790; In Vermont from 1777 to 1836. "In addition to a single house of representatives the Pennsyl vania and Vermont constitutions created both an executive council and a council of censors.The Ver mont framework of government went further than that of Pennsy vanla with the executive council. The Vermont constitution re quired that all bills originating in the assembly should be submitted to the governor and a council of twelve members for their revision and concurrence, or proposals of amendment. If the assembly failed to accept proposals made by the council, the council had authority to suspend the passing of such bills until the next session of the legislature. The purpose of the executive council, as stated in the constitution itself, was to promote mature consideration and prevent hasty determinations. "In Pennsylvania the executive council's authority did not include examination of or limited veto over legislation as found In the Vermont plan, but general laws, except those of sudden necessity, were held up for final passage from one session of the assembly until the next. In Georgia, an executive council examined pro posed acts of the assembly, and any council member con Id enter an objection. Its authority was merely advisory. "The council of censors In Pennsylvania and Vermont had thirteen members. It was elected every seven years for a term of one year. Its duty was to Inquire whether the constitution had been preserved inviolate during the septenary and whether the gov ernment had been faithfully ex ercised. It was also empowered to propose - amendments and call constitutional conventions to. con sider them.- The council had the power of subpoena, and authority to issue censures, order impeach ments and recommend repeal of acts it decided were contrary to the constitution. Vermont re tained the council of censors un til 1870, but the dual-chamber system was adopted in 1836 by a convention summoned by the council. "It has been charged that in stability and passion marked the proceedings of the one-house leg islatures, but it is also surmised that a desire - to be like other states had much to do with crea tion of a senate by each of the three states." m v ; Our first provisional govern ment legislature, of 1843, , called legislative committee, . sat at : the Jason Lee mission (where ; the government itself had been 'voted and set in motion), with nine members; and formed the consti tution. " . 'f :; - ' i,y The 1844 body, still called leg islative committee, met at Ore gon City and had eight members, Yanrhllt district having failed to elect. ,. :..'":.. k : The 184S body, then and thenceforth called legislature, had 13 members; In IS 4 . 1 C members, in 1847, 21, and In 1848 18 members, though entitled to 23, and two special . elections were . called by the governor, to get the 18; nearly every able bod ied man In Oregon having Joined the California gold rash. Oregon City was the place of meeting. Of tHltsajl ' lv . . - - .... LUXURY MODEL SYNOPSIS On tb train, enrouta to her home ta Loa Angel from college, lorely JQIIs abeth Harmon meets handsome Ger ald Bruton. young stock broker. Full of the seat for living; Elizabeth speaks of her ambitions for a career. After luncheon. Gerald auggesta a 1 killer. Elizabeth had never tasted Intoxicants but, fearing her companion may think she bad been posing, she accepts. CHAPTER II ' The waiter brought a bottle and two glasses the size of thlm bles. He poured out a pale liquid that : seemed to have captured some of the spring sunshine In it Elizabeth tasted hers. The sweet strong stuff was like fire in her veins. "Like it?" ' "It's gorgeous. What did you call it?" "Benedictine." She sipped again. She said "It's a bit fiery. Whatever Is It made of? "That's a secret known only to the Benedictine monks." "But how extraordinaryi" "For centuries, he said, "they have made it in their monaster ies. And no one's ever yet found out the recipe." She thought: "He's chosen this like a religious blessing on our meeting " Every nerve tn her body tingled as she looked at him, and her heart rose. "But how terrible to be shut away from the world!" she re marked breathlessly. Gerald Brnton's lips twisted In a faintly Ironical grin. The warmth went out of his eyes as though a light had suddenly been snapped off. "You're right," he agreed tonelessly. "Yet they go into It of their own free will. It seems incon ceivable." "To anyone as young as you. I suppose it's never occurred to yon there can be a hell upon earth for some poor devils?" . "Disappointments, you mean?" He gave a bitter laugh. "You're like the child Plppa in Brown ing's poem. "God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world. That was her theme song." "And what's the matter with that?" she flashed. "Isn't it 'a thousand times better to believe In things to be happy than mis erable?" "Weren't yon criticising women a little while ago for hiding their heads In the sand? More; don't yon realise that women are very often at the bottom of men's mis fortunes?" "Yon mean. she said with un expected perspicacity, and quite pertly, "that behind many monks in their monastery, 'cherches la femme'?" "Not literally, I hope." His eyes twinkled for a moment, then darkened. "But often theoretical ly that's qnite true." She thought: "He's had a love disappointment. That accounts for the lines in his face, and the little white tufts over his earst." And she felt a sudden-fierce resent ment at the unknown woman who had made him suffer. It was un- except In 1843, and every session was unicameral; had only one house. , r , What Is more,' able men were members, and great Issues were settled. And the laws they passed became those of Oregon territory and Oregon state. Also. It furnished , the early laws for California, copied from those of Oregon, mother of states west of the Rockies. Our . provisional government legislature was not bothered with budgets. With only 842.72 la the treasury, and no credit. It fought the Cayuse Indian war, which would now cost a million., : But this Is statement of his torical facts, not an argument tor the unicameral legislature as op posed to the bicamerarform. Each kind has Its good aaft bad points. That a Boon! if If" Ton were out tin two o'clock this with thinkable that any feminine cre ture eonld have made him suffer, for he was so attractive. - From his coat pocket he drew out a heavy gold case with the same monogram on It as on his wallet. He flicked it open. "Will you have one? These are Egyptians at this end. Domestic at the other." ji 8he took a cigarette that had a gay red tip to it. He lit it for her. He drew back to light his own. . ..;!!.- Suddenly she saw the hand that held the match halt In midair, and his eyes looking beyond her, dilate in a face that bad curious ly whitened The match slipped from his fingers to the tablecloth, burning a tiny hole; he did not see it. Someone was coming down the passage of the luncheon coach. The someone was a man a heavily setj, roughly dressed man who halted abruptly at their table, exclaiming awkward- ly: - , " "Why, of all things! I I nev er expected to see you In this part of the world!" i : : In the living room of the com fortable small house set in the orange grove that he had purch ased on retiring from the army, Colonel McCarthy , regarded his step-daughter, Eliazbeth Harmon, with definite irritation. r "You were out: till 2 o'clock this morning,' Elizabeth. Might I Inquire with whom?" She flushed. : but returned his gaze steadily. She was essentially truthful and straightforward. She would not prevaricate. . "I was with! Gerald Bruton. Yon know, one of the Bruton fam ily the brokers. , We'd a grand time. We " I "How., long have 'you known him?" ! "I met him on the train com ing down." i "Without Introduction?" The Colonel's eyebrows shot up. giv ing him a grotesque resemblance to a gargoyle. . ! - J ; - ' She said hastily: "Oh, we hap pened to be at the same table for luncheon. It seemed quite natural to talk. He was so gentlemanly and Interesting "Indeed?" aarcaatlcally. "A u by MAY aiRISTIE morning, Elisabeth. UIght X Inqulri whom? gentleman Is someone who picks a young girl up on a train and pursues the acquaintance without even having the decent manners to call at her home? How do you know his name Is Bruton? Like as not he made that up to Impress you." Elisabeth produced his card. Her step-father glared at It, and with an unbelieving "Humph!" put It in his pocket. . "Instead of running; around at night. It would be much better and more seemly for you to take car of the house. I won't have you going out with Tom, Dick and Harry. As for this man. If he Is one of the Brutona, It makes It all the worse, since he must know what's what and what; isn't." Elizabeth was no coward to be browbeaten. She had j never got on with her step-father, and now. after a year's absence from home, the breach had widened. With the memory of last night singing In her mind, the thought of In terference was Intolerable. Why. Gerald Bruton had treated her like a little queen! The hours had been golden, unforgettable. Doubly -radiant, too, ibecause of the months of drabness and se clusion that had preceded them. They had dined andi danced at a country inn, with the scent of flowering lemon and verbena and the thousand heady odors of a southern spring drifting In at the (Continued on page 9) Ten Years go Jannarr 28. 1027 Under name of Candalaria Heights to old S. A. Clark or chard, 60 A. has' been platted into town lots and filed with county court by Mr. George Grabenborst, and Mrs. . - Prun-port machinery and equip ment on way R. LJ nolsclaw, president of Prun-port Co. is in city for week. --. v-:.' I- : : Charles - Kaufman - has " been elected president., of - sophomore class at Willamette university and Mary Louise Aiken, vice- president. . . of By D. H. The Me of Me If only I could sometimes be ( Turned Inside out for folks, to I .see The part that really Is of me The honest truly Me of me I carry round a pair of eyes (I didn't order) Just to see. And back of them and down Int side . My own real self I try to hide. Mr face belles the honest Me, And folks don't know, nor care maybe. To know the self I really know, j Only the measly me I show. But then. If I should really show The real Me, It might be a blow; ..... I guess I'll hare to keep the lace Given to me to start my race. S. S., Salem, Ore. The O'Conner boys -the tall one. the mlddlin tall one and the Uttle one who isn't tall at all were In town Friday and Satur day. They dropped in fortheJaud able purpose of dispelling, so far as they might, the weather gloom that has been hanging around ol late. They said their father and mother - sometimes accompanied them when they came to town to dispell, gloom. But on this occa sion mother remained at home to split - some -wood, and father couldn't . come because ho had to hold the lantern, so that mother could see to split the wood, and so they (the three boys) would be compelled to do the, best they could without help from the old folks. This explanation, despite its simple and pathetic nature, caused waves Of laughter to sweep over the audiences that greeted the current bill of vaudeville combined with photoplay at the State theatre. So' what? So far as I -know, there is no way of accounting for the reac tions of an audience to vaude ville. What would appear to bo the veriest trifle not Infrequently marks the line 'between glumness and hilarity. The O'Conner boys, on Friday and Saturday's bill at the State theatre, did little of an especially noteworthy character. They danced acceptably, did a lew acrobatic stunts and sang a little. But these things were as nothing compared to the atmosphere with which they clothed their presence on the stage the half-intangible something tbat everybody (or al most everybody) likes and tu multuou8ly approves. - . I The bill was, of course, better In some spots than in others. Also it was a more popular bill than some that hare preceded It. It Is ever thus with. variety pro grams. The audiences were large, and generous with applause, which fact In itself testifies to the quality of the performance, j I It Is a waste of time to analyze a 1 vaudeville performance. If an average audience likes it. It is "good;" otherwise well, it isn't. In view of what is going on In the Ohio, valley. It does appear that we should be ashamed of our selves for the complaints we hare uttered about our 32-degree tem perature, but a fellow must com plain about what he has to com plain about. We can't help It it we have nothing more grievous than a freezing temperature to complain about, can. we? Gee whiz! - , Don't part with '.your illusions.. When they " are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain. Ott Schmidt of the Grand theatre is of the opinion that "Charlie Chan at the Opera," the picture that opened the week at the comfortable playhouse at the corner of High and Court streets. Is the best "Chan" film to date, and I am disposed to agree with him. A story more Interesting and convincing than the average story, and a mystery more com plicated and at the same' time more reasonable. A better than usual supporting company, in cluding no less a horror-insplrer than Boris Karloff. An Improve ment Is noted in the work of the bouncing Chinese youth, K e y e Luke, who has overacted serious ly . on some former occasions. Warner Oland, as the Chinese de tective, who never ; falls to solve his mystery, was, as ever, beyond criticism. . ,- . - Sunday night I chanced to read In Stage (New York) Mr. Cecil DeMille's story of "The Plains man." It is an Interesting story, with a bearing upon the concep tion of the picture and the labors Incidental to the making of it. I have seeja the finished product, and In my opinion, who am of course but an indifferent Judge. Itls a . great picture.. Monday morning, glancing at the editorial page of the Portland Oregonian. a habit of 25 years and more, and there are times when ; I wonder mildly why I do It, I learn that not everybody Is pleased with Mr. DeMille's story of "The Plains man The Oregonian states bluntly that the Hickok-Cody pic ture has no relationship with Twenty Years Ago Jsaurv . 1D1T ' A demonstration - of . physical activities of Y.M.C.A. ; will open new membership drive to start February 7. " . President Carl Gregg Doner will address, men's meeting . at city Y.M.C.A. today and Willam ette university male quartet will sing, luncheon will follow. ' : New Cherry Citr bakery op ened with reception, more than 2000 visited and were served re freshments. ''"V" TALMADGE Le m al reality whatever. The writer men tions the statement flashed on the screen at the beginning of the film that the film does not pur port to be biographicallr accurate, though it does claim to be ac curate In spirit. 'And that state ment," says the writer, "Is sup posed to make It all right for the producers to commit mayhem, murder and assault when armed with a dangerous weapon,, upon the facts of history." The Oregonian writer contin ues: "The Hickok-Cody picture j. has no relationship with reality , whatever, and yet the critics are supposed to be disarmed by the advance admission of the pro ducers. That makes matters de cidedly difficult for those historically-minded persons who ac tually do have a regard for the true characters of Wild Bill. Ca lamity Jane and Buffalo Bill, and who wish that these bizarre prim itives could be revealed to the public as they wereL -The Oregonian is Just a little unreasonable. Doubtless Mr. De Mille's young men and women dug into every book that might throw light upon! the careers of . Messrs' Cody and Ilickok and Miss Calamity Jane,, and doubt less they found, "as others have found before them, that no two writers are agreed upon any two consecutive points. I have talked with men and wdmen from Dead wood, and I have heard a brother of mine tell- of the old days at Abilene and Hays City as he had gathered the tales from old-time lips durlnj a newspaper sojourn in that section, and none of the tales agreed. ! Really it does' not seem the historically-minded persons, for whose, bleeding sensibilities the Oregonian writer Is so concerned, should allow this i picture of Mr. DeMille's - to .darken their lives. It was, perhaps, carrying too mat ter a bit too far when it was made to appear that Jane Canary, in order to save the life of Hick- . ok," whom she worshipped, was re sponsible for the massacre on the Little "Big Horn. But does It se riously matter? There is not much. In truth almost nothing, upon which to base a biography of either Bill Hlckok or Jane Canary. Neither of those wild spirits would give a whoop wheth er they were correctly set forth biographlcally or not. And know- . ing Bill j Cody, as one who has j seen him strut his stuff back in I the early '90s, I'd almost guaran tee that the only fault he would find with Mr. DeMille's "The Plainsman" would! be that he had not been accorded the glamour In stead of Bill Hickok. ",.'-'.. ;-, -t-'.: " , , Notes ' The most laughable news of the past, several days t-that of shiver ing tourists in southern Califor nia. The not t dreadful t hat from Cincinnati . . "Gone With the Wind" Margaret Mitchell's first book, has broken a record. Its sale has passed the million mark . . . Eleanor Powell can "tap" 20 times a second in danc ing . . . Jeannette MacDonald and Gene Raymond are to be married June 17 . ... The battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17 . . . Since . congress adjourned last June three senators and six con gressmen have -died ... A book worth the reading. "White .Ban-', r ners," by Lloyd Douglas ... I've been around some, but so , far. I havent Wet up witi anybody who acts aa If he enjoys making out his Income tax report . . . You. hear some foIks8&y!ng They" think they've had a touch of flu, and others saying they expect they'll have . It, but you don't hear very many saying they aren't going to have It . . r I met the man yester day who has had the worst flu attack of anybody In Oregon and lived. He admits it . . . There was a day when folks with a few mo ments to spend restfully took a 15-13-14 puzzle from their pock ets and poked at the little blocks with their index fingers. We have now ascended to a higher plane the crossword puzzle . . . How tough Is tough? Of course, no body knows. But It's safe to say it ain't so tough as some folks who think they are tough think It is . .. . I see white pencils on display in the bookstores. I reck on some folks use. 'em to draw on their imaginations . . . Says a newspaper wise guy, "Don't swing to the right or left, but stick to the middle of the road." Yes, but doesn't the guy know It's contrary to the traffic regula- ' tlons? . . . Gosh, how I hate that word "guy"! ;-. . . It is said of a certain legislator that no fault has been found with him since he assumed the of rice. A sort of washout, what? v. . This is being written to the accompaniment of a warm rain that: came a short time back on a south wind. The window Is open, and a moth miller has fluttered in.' Reminds me of something Ed Widger said once when a moth miller flut tered in at an open window. "Darn a bird.". said Ed. "that lays holes Instead of eggs!" . . . An eastern magazine has remodeled the ancient story of the man who was painting hurrledlr because he wished to get the house covered before his paint ran out- The la ter story has to do with a speeder , . who was driving ' fast because he " had not much gas and wished ta reach home before the supply was exhausted . . .. Old jokes on new people become new Jokes ; I. . The "Dr. Bull" picture (Will Rogers) is being brought to Sa lem for another showing.' Opens Saturday . . . A new electric sign at the Commercial Book Store . . . One may traverse! most of the business section of Salem In a rainstorm without igettlng wet ex cept when crossing the streets. Arrivals of 30 years ago recall that awnings were few and far between In that day and marker (spelling not guaranteed) wer zewer ana .farther! between.