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KAGE FOUR. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 28, 192k THE CAPITAL JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NCWSTATER ,Vby Th Capital Journal Priming CO, i j south Commercial street. V , si - E.ntorial room. - I ABUSING THE INITIATIVE. OEOKUS fUTNAM. Edlter-PoM""" ""entered a foonl claw mall mttr at SaiiUS. vrao. . , ,..,,-t !."1'I.1V MATHS R nrrer 50 cents a month. JJysnau aabacripiwa ... i.i.ir T.nreentatlvcs W. D. tV,h Tribune BUIg.. New York; SUttkweU. People Ua mag H. Chicago. HFMBER OF THE ASSOCIATEDTBraS Th. Associated Cmi i exoluwselr Rippling Rhymes. By WAlT MASOX OUt WAXW.U1XC BOY. Blnee nations ceased their throwing tits, their hands In blood imbruing. I often think of Klti-I Frits, and won der what he's doing. They bring me news of old Kx J 1111, from o'er the briny bllolws; he's In the woods, al ready still. a-whacking elms and wil lows; the sycamore hp roundly hit and saws It with emotion; but not o word of Eltol I''rlu, comes o'er the oosy ocean. Oh. Kltel Kritx. in olden times, you made me rather wvury; you were einhaltned In C.prman lily men and Cierman legends beery. The favorite of men and (lame you spent your lit "time muyliig, with glee pur sued vour Kiddy gnbes, begor the Kraudstnml playing. Of all good beta you were the boat, one issue that waa vital; and now we hear of all the rest, but not u word of Kltel. The Kronprinz Willyuin on hi isle cuts tip lomt dismal capers, and now and then, with sickly smile, speaks pieces for the papers. We hear of divers busted dukes, and skates of princely title, and Hlndenburg and other fluk es, but not a word of Kits', Oh, Kltel Frit, you Kiddy boy, once sassy, rain ' iinri tuiiui. does life seem aground -of Joy, or Is It total-lossy? Odds and Ends ti woman's toars are the (greatest wttterpower known to num. 'Atchison County Mi'.ll. THE proposed initiative till amending the constitution to abolish the fish and game commission, and give each county jurisdiction over its fish and game resources is calculated to utterly demoralize and destroy all fish and game propagation and protection in Oregon. The bill emanates from a few commercial fishermen at Oregon City.rho seek for selfish reasons a few dol lars more profit for a few years to nullify all the con structive work of the past decade. County control has been given a fair trial in Wash ington and proved a fizzle. Depleted streams and absence of pamp attest its failure. The result would not be dif ferent in Oregon. The game farm would go by the board. Anglers and hunters would have the privilege of pay inp a seDarate license for each county they fished or hunt ed in and that is all they would get for their money. The average county court is interested only in keeping down expenses and we would have some thirty different codes for as many counties. This measure is an abuse of th2 initiative and not a proper subject for a constitutional amendment. If every disgruntled group of sore-heads is to attempt to amend the constitution with trivial legislation to satisfy grudges, the constitution will soon become a ioke. In no way is such a measure entitled to consideration as part of the fundamental framework of the commonwealth. . PAPER MONEY. feSEPOl TALES bit A -: By ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY whole official career. As one. and in behalf of such class of private citizens, I not only wish to commend but also to publicly thank you for your good public service for us, and you can rest assured that vot es of approval will com to you thru ! the ballot box in the tuture. So, I would ask you to be ever watchful of such box, and guard and protect our citUenship xighta -there, with ever xeolous vigilance. Tours sincerely in fraternal dem ocracy, GEO. C. AIITTY. ' . .hot the mnl-e CuffV THR FOREST FIRE- JltM th lc alarmed he had bm. It was quite late in the fall. An s' ; d,erent wlth Jlrs. Bear Blue Mountain iooked very different ; But tood lnere. wilh he, from the way It looked all summer -The iwr where tberJair, the mo uneasy she becan.e. And The leaves had turned to brown and; nose .nn ah. ciw something -,. rlnmm of fir-tree, as there were - - that Jlre. more "It is drv Nowaday a nickel Is about as useful as a rIhk pye m a keyhole. -New York Atuerli'uii, Our "me IthiK Pot" la -like others; it can not convert refractory ores. Wall Btreet Jourral. The liolsh'ivlk movement In America Is assuming the kiiIhb of a "Hack Home Movement."-Columbia Ilecord. Much of the opposition to prohibi tion lies In he fear that 'Hacoa will follow UacctuiH. Philadelphia Kven Ing J,ed;fir. It 1 a ood thlitR for Vnlted States enalors thai they are paid by the year. They would starve to death on piece? work.-o-I'ulliu News. An exchange professor says that ed uontlon hfti passed front u luxury to a necessity. Thun nobody will want n New Voile Kvenlng Tost. PKUUAHLY the hign cost ot living is clue to paper monev. inflation of the currencv. more than to any - - - t; r - v ' " one other cause even more than to the void in the world's stocks of supplies. The paper currency has in creased from seven billion dollars in 1914 in thirty coun tries to over fifty one billion in 1919, exclusive of the 34 billions issued by the Russian Bolshevist government, which has no gold backing. At the same time the gold reserve has increased from five billions in 1914 to seven billions in 1919. " The ratio of gold reserve to outstand ing notes was 70 per cent in 1914 and 13.7 per cent in 1919. There is seven times as much paper money as there was at the outbreak of the war. Inflation has been the greatest in the Central Powers, where the gold reserve has fallen to 327 million from 600 million, and the paper currency increased from 1,200 million to 18,771 million a ratio of 1.7 gold to paper. The Allies have increased their paper money from 4,900 million in 1914 to 29,600 million and their gold from 3,763 million to 5,071 million, the ratio of gold to notes de creasing from 76.6 per cent to 17.1 per cent. Inflation did not stop with the war but is continuing at even faster ratio since the Armistice was signed some eleven billion Hollars of paper money being put out the past year. In addition to thecurrency are the government bonds and other forms of indebtedness, which while not legal tender, do pass as money in many business transac tions. World indebtedness has increased as fast as world currency, the total debts advancing from 40 billions in j 914 to 260 billions at the present time. While paper currency has been multiplying and na tional debts mounting and bank deposits and the use of bank checks similarly increasing, the gold production has declined, dropping from 460 million a year to 350 million a year, while more gold is being diverted to the arts and sciences than ever before. The gold dollar can never be expected to recover its old value, even with the most conservative management and the gradual retirement of currency and reduction of indebtedness. We are on a more or less permanent plane of higher valuations and the sooner we become reconciled to the situation, the better. We are still measuring val ues by the old standard, which has ceased to exist. yellow and scarlet, except """ u " . . 1 Vo, .rvent start. j xi- p..r. hm.cA Indeed. iiue!S" " - " wv. imnt as if it were It was something white all aflame, so bright were the autumn Eear g., a,,a it hung over the tree eolors. Mr. Jiear remarked as much to.lol,s; and wnere the wind had caught Mrs. Bear one day. it it wns spun out thin, like a veil. "For goodness' sake, don't say lt was exactly what Mrs. Bear had that!" she exclaimed. "Don't mention I eareJlt tta8 Bmoke!' The forest fire to me. The very thought of itwa8 a(iret And Mrs. Bear was very makes me nervous. Everything's so much alarmed. She sent Cuffy and SU dry! I shall be glad when it rains onoe kie lnto tne house, because she want- led to oe sure tmit mey wuumu i . iA.. ntt into, tnct unn fta Ard then their Vr Bear agreed. uit" muiuei Btuwu . ' watched. She was looking for Mr. Bear. While she waited there the smoke kept rising more and more untu there were great clouds of it; and ut last Mrs. Bear could see red flames licking up the tops of the trees. Several (Iter came bounding past, and a great number of rabbits ana squirrels. And then followed other ani mals that couldn't run so fast such as raccoons, and skunks, and wood chucks. Not for years had Mrs. Bear seen so many of the forest-people and they were all so frightened, ana In Buch a hurry to get away from the fire, that not one of them noticed Mrs. ! Bear as she stood in her doorway. Where are they going, Mother: asked Cuffy Bear. He had crept up behind his mother and had been look ing at the strange sight for some time. "They're going over to the lake ,on the other side of the mountain," said Mrs. Bear. "Are they going fishing?" Cuffy asked. Mrs. Boar shook her head. And then Cuffy gqueeaed past her and saw what was happening. "Oh-h, hurrah! hurrah!" he shout ed. His mother looked at him in astonishment. "It'3 father's birthday!" he cried. You remember that Cuffy's mother had told him that Mr. Bear was bora on the day of the great forest fire, and that he never had a birthday except when the woods caught fire again. "Now maybe father will bring home another little pig for a feast!" Cuffy said hopefully. Post Road Contracts ToNoyJ0Om?5,0O0,(HK) Post road contracts awarded by the state highway department up to No vember 30, last, aggregated 45.S91,-. C4T.93 of which J1.860.J56.04 was -in western Oregon and J3.430.T01.89 in eastern Oregon, according to a sum mary just prepared by the highway engineer's office. The cost of the poBt mud nroieets thus awarded will be as follows: state funds, J2.229.177.94; county funds, J576.670.22; govern ment funds, J2,485,599.7T. . I-.' i Mm i.nnK roR THE FED BAIL TRADE .MARK MRfearrasAiMunition vafr ss i ,r.n " m- l v a i SeleciitaOf Ks'Aisrr? jury temmencci uh Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 54.-2 work of selecting a jury to i; i trial ot Truman H. Newbem- mv, of his ; annotate charged with viok) Ion of the election Jaws wasleTL daj-. with the arrival here of a ecorttf defendant and veniremen whose u! aence yer.erday, due to snowso-. trains, had halted the proceedings. , DANDRI'ITT HEADS BC 3(c sC safe If you want plenty of thick. utut, glossy, siixy hair, ao means get rid of dandruff, f or it H starve your hair and ruin it if m don't. It doesn't do much good to Jrjr h brush or wash it out The only air way to get rid of dandruff is to da. solve it, then you destroy it entirety. to ao tnis, get arout tour ounces at ordinary liquid arvon; apply it tt night when retiring; use enough tt moisten the scalp and rub it in geat ly with the finger tips. By morning, most if not all, of yon dandruff will be gone, and three tr four more applications will complete ly dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of lt. You will iiud, too, that all itchiot and digging of the scalp will atop, and your hair will look and feel a hund red times better. You can get liqnid arvon at any drug store. It is inei pensive and four ounces is all you will need, no matter how much dandruff you have. This simple remedy never fails. (AJv) dont' worry. It's like this every fall." And he went slowly down the mountain. Cuffy and Sllkie were playing to gether that morning. Cuffy was teach ing Silkle to box, though, to be sure, he know very little aboul boxing. But he found It .;asy to tap Silkie on the nose. And ho had tapped her sa hard that Mrs. I.car heard a sound very much like quarreling; and she came to the door to see what was the trouble. Mrs. Bear was just going to call het children, when she rroticed a peculiar odor In the air. And she stood quite still .and sniffed, just as Cuffy had when he smelled the haymakers' lunch. Klrst tiling you know the public will die of starvation, uiid then capital and labor wlil have had nil their tronew for nothing. Kaunas industrialist. Why til ime the Indies for being ahead of time In wearing their bui'Iiir hats In ,1 iMoi'.ry? We are weaving ouv next winter's hat now. New York Kvenlng Mull. Mr. Burleson did not speak at the JackdKi .In - banquet, but it Is under stood th it he sent a letter, w hich un-, fortuuut iy was delayed, New York ljvenhig I'..st. federal trade figures on autoa sales would initliitte that one of the chief uuuse of labor's demands for higher wages is the high cost of fllvvlng. Manila bulletin, Tueultiet owe us 4 ,". 0 million dollars' Interest on the leu billion oilier dollars they ow e us, hut we're not going to col lect even the Interest Just at .present. h'ur two reasons: first, we're sorry for them ,aud tecond, lliey haven't got it. Kuiifitv City Htur. MsCHffia MM lift ii In iKia' o' cldei l en.v w,i.e t'day. I.afe V !! an you kin oulv tit four dirv t' th' gallon. M--s, !:; Moots '11 s.pioi ii.ie 117 the miclu have fcpeiu I'-.-j OfeDiU. LOVE and MARRIED LIFE uit noxea uuuior Idah M?Glone Gibson iu:hs Monr.i.AMvs amoitiox. "Is It any wonder that I do not smile often?" continued my wun a rather wistful smile. I looked m her searchlugly and 1 saw many things In her face that I never would have found hud she not told me her story. There were the lit tle deep wrinkles at either side ot her mouth that spoke of soul-pain: there was a hnblt of drooping eye lids as though to cover eyes that told too much; nnd nt times there was a quick In-drawing of the lower Up and 'ally, a nam clamping of the upper teeth upon it that made me feel she was striving with all her will-power to repress a never-oeaslng mental strug gle against her fate. Olwervlng these things, t aald to her: "Well, nt least you have lived! Your life has not been one great ex panse of monotony. There most have been times when, however .buffeted you were, you could say to yourself, 'At least 1 am the captain of my soul!" "I'm proud of you, nurse, and 1 know now why you are so efficient it is because ot the courage which you have: courage which I am afraid nurse 1 1 will never be able to feel. I suppose that little things never hurt you any more!" CnlmiiCNS and l'olso Necessary. "Oh, my dear, my dear," she Bald, "pray that you will never arrive at the place where little things can not hurt you. When you have reached that point of calmness nnd poise where you can say to yourself, 'no thing and no one can hurt me mater- you also have reached the state bakedjfbr twanty boura, produces tn rane.dallcatfl flavor of Grapelluts - Wonderfully easy to digest and. full of nourishment, where you must confess that no one and nothing can give you great lov. fuch Imuntty to pain Is only purchas ed at the pile of all lov. and nit pleasure. The jinly thing left that appeals to me is my work. I struggle over you. my dear. 1 almost wrested you from death itself, and when 1 saw you open your eyes and smile the other day I had the nearest thing to a thrill that 1 have had in many months. "The woman who Is able to attune her emotions to great happiness must perforce sink her moods at times into the depths of sorrow. 1 must not talk to you any nit re of my futile existence hut you asked me for my story, and someway 1 had a feeling tha vou were allowing the little things in life to hurt you too much." "lt Is the Ittle annoynnees of our ev- ery day life, I answered, "that make the modern martyrdom and who shall say that their continued prick does not become in time as torturing as the hair cloth thlrt of the dark age ot oven the excruciating pain of the burning fa-wots themselves." "Who Is talking of excruciating palu and burn'.iKf fagsiots! asked Alice's gay voice. "Are you recalling the epl suae in i ox i live of Martyrs,' or are you thinking of emulating one your self." ."Neither, I answered, "for who would -chofse to lie a martyr" l,ikr- st lllg 1'lnk l;.we. "When sie could He there looking like a '4riit pink rose among her sla ters!" "Alice you must tell Karl he must not send ma so many flowers." "Why not! It's good for him! I think if he hadn't this way to express himself he would do something rash. 1 told him t'.ial he could pay for all the flowers I sent you, and he seemed per fectly wlllint;, The only stipulation st made was that I should keep youi room aglow with them, and I'm going to do It!" I don't know what John will think," I said, "lie railed at your ex travagance this morning." "What John thinks matters little vu me, . she bi,i'l, with a scornful toss of her head. ' .Vlut 1 wishJ could shake him just the same." Then she stopped quickly, as though she had said something which she had not meant. "What has John been doing now i I asked idly. "Oh, he'd been letting Elizabeth Moreland make a fool of him, as us- uul." "Alice, do you think John Would rather be married to Elizabeth More land than to me?" "Nonsense! John wouldn't marry Elizabeth Moreland If she were the last womap in the world, and yet she is so clever in her appeal to his egotism that he can not leave her alone. JSlizu heth. my dear, la determined that she will wreck your life If need be to mar ry John." "What do ;ou mean. Alice?" Will Never Forget. "Just exactly what I say. I shall nev er forget her face the day I told her the doctor thought you wouldn't re cover. It was that of a -nalignant devil triumphant. And yet when John came into the room she was all sorrow ana pity for him. However, she could not keep up tha play very long, for she ad ded in that silken voice of hors: 'You will forgive me, John, if I say that you have not had Katherlne long enough to miss her very greatly.' I could not resist saying: "Don't worry, Bess, John is going to have Katherlne for many years yet. Tomorrow Alice and John. ? Open Forum. A heavy shower of mixed rain and sleet prevailed at Hood Kiver Sun day night, and the worst silver thaw of the season coated threes and tel phone and power wlrM Monday. Editor Journal: I would ask you for ihe pilvilege of publk'y expressing througu your alued paper, u little Mimneiidatinn of our exceptin.ii'y iffeuont. ard very popular governor, Bon W. Ol- cott. Governor Olcott's staunchest sup porters are a vast majority of the most desirable class of our state cit izenship; those obscure private citi- zcs. who are not seeking special fa vors, and who have no selfish pol itical schemes to foster, nor political axes to grind; those whose whole pol itical desire is only for good govern ment efficiently and economically applied. Such class of citizens of all parties, are practically unanimous supporters of Governor Olcott, and they will be as long as he disregards party lines himself, nnd uses his executive pow ers freely to curb the desires and ac tivities of unscrupulous political schemes, who are or may become un desirable public' officials. Such citizens approve Governor Ol cott's actions in using his veto pow ers so freely, and they would silently say to him: "Go to it governor. I'se your veto power more extensively in the future, for you called the special session to consider seven specified measures, while you allowed eight times that number, or 56, to ecsupe your veto ax; but since the legisla ture lacked but one bill of passing fourteen times as many measures, as they were culled together to cousider, it Is not surprising that you were par tially smothered with legislative acts, and, in all probability, with unscru pulous political pressure also, and that under such conditions you failed to slaughter some acts that should nave oeen veioea; ana, i would es pecially mention the road-bonding act, to which an emergency clause wns attached in an unjustifiable way." However, governor, you have al ways been an exceptionally efficient public official and a majority of the private cltisens of Oregon, are confi bbiu you win oe tiiroughout your Al tt M a -f HI 5 Hv ill s4 DISORDERS of the stomach and constipation are the most common diseases of children,' 'To correct them you will find nothing betterthaa Chamberlain's Tablets. One tablet at bed time will do the work and will make your child bright and cheerful the following morning. Do not punish your children by giving them castor oil. Chamber lain's Tablets arc better and more pleasant to 'take. HtltfssjsjsBbBjBAjjKsjiVsssa .-Jik..ikR, . 'IHWt,; . Old Gregory lias Driving Power Sixty-five years old, but still keen and active, a power in business and among friends. What is at the back of his "drive"? It's health lungs sound, blood pressure normal. And backof his health are re gulaf habits properelimination. Ye3, it's .largely this habit of regular bowel evacuation that kesps "old man Gregory" young. The poisons of constipation effect more -.u st .-ive changes in the 'body than perhaps any other cause. K-ep your system free of these poisons by habitual, daily movements. If you have difficulty in cultivating this habit, remembef that by an entirely new principle Nujol will keep the poisonous waste moving out of the body. Every other form of treatment either irritates or forces the system. Nujol works on the waste matter-instead of on the system, Nujol prevents constipation by keeping .the food waste soft, thus helping nature establish easy, thorough bowel evacuation at regular intervals the healthiest habit in the world. It is absolutely harmless and pleasant to take try it. Nujol is sold by all druggists in sealed bottles only; bearing Nujol trade-mark. Write Nujol Laboratories, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), 50 Broadway, New York, for booklet "Thirty Feet of Danger." A New Method ot Trehting an Old Complaint I Don't Need to Tell You" says the Good Judge Why so many men are going to the small chew of this good tobacco. You get real tobacco sat isfaction out of this small chew. The rich taste lasts and lasts. You don't need a fresh chew so often. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put Up In Two Styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco VV-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco I FOR BETTER BREAD TRY BAKE-RITE Pure, Clean, Wholesome Baked by Electricity BAKE-RITE SANITARY BAKERY 457 State Street LADD & BUSH BANKERS Established 1868 General Banking Business Office Hours from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.