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Catered as second elaaa nail matter
at Balem, Oregon.
REACTION AGAINST PROHIBITION
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bservations
.(that was pedfectly true for he had) "
and I'm weary now of eating, as I'm tired of other things; andjnever pulle(i a tooth m hia whoJe
, Tr.S Mr' lillltllll
2 vcagvtB0fj
lug Ills mliia about what be was going
to be when he grew up. First he
thought he would be a gardner, so
he would always have plenty of
vegetables to eat. Next he decided he
would be a preacher, because, so far
as he could see, they never d:d -ny
Albany. For making beer and
maintaining a copimon nuisance In ht
food stable at Lebanon, V. E. Parrish
wum found Euilt.v in Judge OHiver's
court Monday morning and fined ?25
uml cutis of J".2j.
Alba n v. Judge L. G. Levelling of
Albany will ask for the republican
nomination for district nttorney tf
Ail mi county, to succeed Ciale S. Hill.
Portland. Immediate construction
of a l.'i.HHI ton drydork was authorized
Tuesday by the Portland public dork
coin million. There will be five pon
toon each of 3000 tons capacity.
Newport. An immense run of her
ring has been ill the Yutmina bay dur
ing the last few days, the fishermen
making large catches. The cold stor
sge plant is running to its fullest ca
pacity in caring for the fish.
Corvnllitt. A convention of cattle
feeders has been scheduled for March
2!-28 at Lit, Grande. The Oregon Agri
cultural college will sponsor the gath
ering, plans for which include work
at the eastern Oregon experiment station.
Portland t'nlted States Judge C.
E. Wolverton has returned to the
federal bench after an absence of a
month In San Francisco. Judge Rob
ert S. Itenn has left tor duties in the
bay city and will return about April
1. Judge Wolrerton, who was quite
ill while In the south, hns complete
ly recovered.
Albany. Clale 8. HIU, district at
torney of Linn county ami prominent
ntlorney of Albany, nnnoueed Satur
day that he will not ask for re-eloc-tio'n
Ibis year to the office he holds.
Mu rub field The workmen of the
Huehne Lumber compnny mill most
of whom are members of the Loyal
Legion, have demanded from "the com
pnny $3,119 per day minimum wages,
Instend of $4.80 as agreed upon two
months ago when the employers and
legion representatives met in Port
land. UoHCburg. Mrs. Dolllo Watts was
binned to death Monday night when
lirr home near Kutherlln, Or., was rte
Mroyeil by firo caused by a heated
Iron Igniting Ibe covers of the bed tn
which site was sleeping. Her son-in-
law was seriously burned while at
tempting her rescue.
A DODular reaction aeainst the national prohibition amend
ment and the Volstead enforcement act is sweeping the east and
despite efforts of politicians to sidestep the issue, prohibition
promises to be an important factor in both the national conven
tions. In fact the prediction is made that, now that the saloon
has been permanently banished and the brainless, sordid and
soulless liquor traffic out of the way, that prohibition will be
the division line between the two great parties, which in the past
have never committed themselves on this question, and a national
referendum be forced.
Under the prohibition amendment, congress is given the
power to define what constitutes alcoholic beverages, and it has
done this with the Volstead act placing the limit of alcohol at
one-half of one percent. The dry amendment, however, gives tne the tooth pcixer.
states concurrent jurisdiction with the national government and - J"unr Rabbit was always cluing-
various states have proceeded to enact laws increasing the amount
of alcohol to permit the manufacture of light wines and beers, and
the validity of these statutes is now before the federal supreme
court for final determination.
The Anti-Saloon League drive for a 25 million dollar fund to
aid the enforcement of prohibition m America and to make the
world dry met with a disastrous failure m its initial effort con
ducted from Atlanta in the banner southern dry states and the
campaign closed with a deficit and a set back that may cause
the abandonment of the campaign in the rest of the nation, as
the people refued to put up their dollars. v
Rhode Island and other states are attacking the constitution
ality of the dry amendment in the federal supreme court on the
ground that it usurps police power and other inherent state rights
guaranteed under the constitution.
New Jersey has challenged the authority of congress under
the "concurrent power" clause of the 18th amendment by enact
ing a law for the manufacture and sale of 3.5 percent beer. A
federal court in Wisconsin has upheld the validity of the 2.5 per
cent beer act in that state.
The New York democratic state convention declared "we are
utterly opposed to prohibition by federal amendment" and the
New York Assembly has ordered a probe of the political activities
of the Anti-Saloon League which "put over" the prohibition law
without a popular vote on the subject. Governors of Vermont,
New York, New Jersey and other states have come out against
prohibition and in recent elections held, most of the towns and
villages of Vermont and Massachusetts have reversed their
former policy and voted wet as a protest against the national
dry law.
The New York World summarizes the situation thus : '
The sentiment against Prohibition by Federal amendment is increasing,
not diminishing. It will continue to Increase until this question "finds its
way to the ballot-box. There never was a greater piece of political folly
than that of the Prohibition lobby arid its subservient politicians when they
assumed that the Constitution of the United States could be revolutionized,
,the police powers of the Stntes destroyed, the personal habits of all American
kittens regulated from Washington and the most elementary rights denied
by statute, without ever permitting the American people to have a vote on
the new form of government to which they were to be subjected.
Whatever the courts may finally decide in regard to the validity of the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Enforcement Law, the court of
lust resort in all such oases Is the people themselves, and they have begun
to speak.
the dame who has the habit of arranging gruD lor me, murmurs iiae,
as she fries the rabbit and prepares the senna tea.
EMS
BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY .
r- v.. I Pi lie ll.i-,-,r.t.TT..1
fA v
' .o.o a jour tooth!'
don't want It!"
he cried.
STATE BOND INVESTMENTS
Portland. Hex 11. May, striking
lineman, who sustained a fractured
Hkttll in a fluht with A. W. Dennett
a lineman employed by the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph company .Mon
day, while May was on picket duty,
was reported by physicians today to
be in a crileial condition, with Utile
hope for recovery.
Kugetie. Or., Mar. 0. Postmaster V..
ti. Campbell has received notice that
the central accounting system now in
vogue by tlie postofflee will be chang
ed .March 15. and that Portland will
be made the central accounting office
for Oregon. I'or the past 3D mouths
the lOuaeue office has been the cen
tral ucociinliiiK office for the seventy
postoftices In Lime county,
Portland. Multnomah Falls. Oro
f.'on's most beautiful cascade, may be
practically dry by mid-summer, unless
the 11 -Inch deficiency tn rainfall Is
made up. declared C P. Keyset-, super
intendent of Portland's public parks
rtfler completing a survey of the
stream feeding the falls, A dam to
control the flow may be constructed In
Ibe spring ,lf conditions do not improve
bo stated,
Records of the state treasurer's office shows that since last
August $1,770,605.59 of public money in the industrial accident,
segregated accident, and catastrophe funds, have been invested
in interest bearing bonds with a par value of $1,679,241.45.
These bonds were purchased at a premium (above par) of
$91,634.04 from bond houses, though in nearly all cases the bonds
brought less than par to the communities issuing them. The
interest rate varies from 5 to 6 percent, averaging about 5 14
percent. Of these purchases, 74 percent were made from Morris
Bros, bonds with par value of $1,248,629.09 being purchased for
$1,327,436.37. Twenty-six percent of the purchases were divided
between seven other bond houses.
The treasurer's books show for the Segregated Accident
fund that during the four previous years bonds of a par value of
$1,337,014.44 were purchased for $1,331,781.23 at $5,233.21 less
than face value, though these bonds brought a lower rate of in
terest. Many were purchased directly from the communities is
suing them and only a small brokerage fee was allowed when the
purchase was made through bankers.
It is apparent that the same principle carried out during the
past year would have resulted in a considerable saving to the
state for most of the issues were secured by the bond houses
at less than par and resold the state at a premium, which added
to the commissions, made a fat thing f?r the bond houses.
The grand jury will probably not only investigate the char
acter of the investments but endeavor to ascertain the reasons
for the change in policy of buying directly below par to buying
through brokers at a premium.
thing except tak. and he was sure
that oouldn't be very hard work. And
one day he told his mother that he
expected to become a tramp, bo he
wouldn't have to wash his face. Bui
i.ie soon put that idea out of his heaa.
So Jimmy had to think of something
else. i
Now, he had heard that there were
places where one could go to have a
tooth pulled. And it seemed to him
that it must be very pleasant to pull
teeth and he saw no reason why he
need wait until he grew up, either. He
saw no reason why he should not be
gin at once.
Jimmy knew of a hollow Btump
not far away which would make as
fine an office as anyone could wish
Jo he hopped into the woods. And
outside the hollow stump he nailed
a sign that said:
JAMES RABBIT
TOOTH PULLER.
He didn't have to wait any time
at all before some one came along.
It was Frisky Squirrel. And the
moment he read the sign he decided
that one of his teeth was in need of
pulling.
j "Come right in!" Jimmy Rabbit
' said. He had on a white apron, which
he had borrowed from his mothet
when she was not looking. And in
his hand he held a big pair of pin
cers, which he had borrowed from
his father while Mr. Rabbit was
away from home.
"Do you really know how to pull
a tooth?" Erisky asked.
"I've never yet had a complaint
from anyone who let me pull a tooth
for him," Jimmy Rabbit said. And
guardian of the
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auam to license
LOVE and MARRIED LIFE
I - Eg, tne noiea auuior
1 ? IdahMSGlone Gibson .
A MAZi'ti VIEWS.
TYPHUS THREATENS EUROPE.
Electricity will be the greatest le-
i.trnctlve force in future wars, says M.
Ttirpin, of Franco, Inventor of mollte
one of the most terrible explosives
used In the world war.
i
vJ
l'n!cs a feller Is a diy Ijl.o'rr bis
wife iiev.-r thinks he work . hard
J.s she does. Jtow'd .Volt like t' be ft
rcbln an' be able t' build this spring?
Poland, according to recent cable from Colonel Gilcrist of the
United States army is experiencing the worst typhus fever epi
demic in the history of the world, which unless blotted out at
once, threatens all Europe an emergency that the government,
of Poland is unable to cope with for lack of financial resources
and sanitary- supplies. The epidemic is in its fourth year, and
has increased in intensity with each year, due to the influx of
refugees and war prisoners from Russia, where Bolshevik armies
are ridding themselves of typhus cases by sending them in ar
mored cars to the Polish border and turning them adrift.
The victims, without any kind of medical care, lack food and
shelter and are dying by . thousands, their bodies being piled in
great heaps awaiting burial. Whole towns and districts are crip
pled by the disease and business practically suspended. There are
few doctors and no nurses, and the country left devastated and
devoid of materials by the successive occupation of various ar
mies. Famine stalks the land.
The only method of sending relief to these sufferers is by
means of food drafU now on sale by leading banks upon the
United States Grain Corporation. These drafts are handled by the
banks without charge to the customers, and will insure the deliv
erance of food to the stricken people.
Rippling Rhymes
BT WAL T MASON
NO APPPETITE
I am tired of boiled potatoes, I am tired of prunes and slaw; I
am tired of stewed tomatoes, and of predigested straw. And the
dame who cooks the vittles sheds a sad, discouraged sigh, as she
takes her knife and whittles apples for the daily pie. All our
lives we are repeating ancient mealtime stunts, by jings; one
grows tired at last of eating, as he tires of other things. Once
the horn that sounds for dinner made my pulses travel fast ? oh,
it seemed a four-time winner when I heard its welcome blast; like
a kangaroo I sprinted,' from the distant field I flew, when that
brazen trumpet hinted that the pork and beans were due. But
my tummy then was younger than it e'er will be again, and it
knew the pangs of hunger that are felt by husky men. That was
in a season oldcnjon a happy vanished day, when my sideboards,
bright and golden, showed no gizzled strands of gray. Oh, the
years are short and fleeting, they have flown on whizzing wings;
When I arrived at my room I look
ed eagerly at the floor as I opened the
door to see if any letters had been put
under it while I was away.. There was
no sign of one.
My eyes moved about the room
hoping to find that some, servant had
picked up my correspondence and
placed It somewhere for safekeeping.
In a moment I had pounced quickly
upon a little bundle of unopened en
velopes that the maid had laid upon
my writing desk.
There was nothing, however, from
John.
True I had . not answered his last
letter, for I felt there was nothing to
say; I could only wait and dumbly
wish that something would bring him
not declare it audibly, but he would
to his senses and to me.
If I returned to him now he might
always think that I only came back
because I had spent all my money. I
was determined that cost me what it
might, I would not return to John
on any other conditions than those
under which I had married him.
John Gordon must want me, want mo
ns badly as he did when he persuaded
me to undertake a runaway marriage
with him.
Getting Along Very Well.
Up to date, however, he seemed to
be getting along very well without
me, and my heart stopped beating as
the thought came to me that he might
be glad that I was away.
Tears were very near my eyelids
and to distract my thought (for I had
determined that John Gordon should
never make me weep again) I ran
over my letters again, and opened
one from my cousin Charles.
"Your mother and I will join you
shortly," ran a paragraph in his let
tei "She has been consulting that silly
ouija board again, and as It always
pictures you In great trouble, sho is
determined that we shall both come
down to Atlantic City, where ouija
says we can be of great use to you.
Besides, my dear, someone has been
telling her that the Mrs. Bob Gay
lord, who has been- your copipanion
at Atlantic City, was not the Ruth
fiaylord that she used to know. She
will not believe, however, that it was!
vour old friend, Helen Van Ness, who
as the gossip Informed her, had brok
"Even she, my dear, has sensed tha
you and John are not particularly
happy together. (There I have said it
although I did not mean to, but of
course you know that we who love
you can not be deceived. We know
that you have found unhapplness
where you expected happiness).
"Your mother opened her heart to
me last night and said that she
thought your marriage to John was
a mistake, and she was sure that you
were grief-stricken. 'I must go to her,
Charles', she said, 'because I do not
want her to get the modern idea that
marriage may not be for all time, for
better or for worse. It would break
my heart If anything should develop
that would make my little girl think
that she would be more contented
divorced from John. No woman In her
father's family or mine has ever been
divorced. I am going to her and make
her understand that the only way to
rectify a mistake of this kind is to
be brave and make the best of every
thing." Did Not Agree With Her.
"Of course, my dear Katherine, I
did not tell her that I do not agree
with her. But I believe that no woman
should live with a man and nurse a
grievance against him in her heart.
In fact, I would ha much more re
spect for your friend Helen Van Ness
for Insisting that a love like hers and
Bobby Gaylord's would excuse all.
things, than I would for a woman who'
It would have been a shame if
Frisky Squirrel had lost one of his
sharp, white teeth. But Frisky didn't
know that. He thought it would be fun
and he sat down and told Jimmy
Rabbit that he was ready.
So Jimmy Rabbit stepped up to
him. But he hadn'a any more than
closed his pincers when Frisky
Squirrel began to scream.
Jimmy Rabbit was so surprised
that he let the pincers droD unit
jumped back. -
"My goodness," he said. "How
you startled me! I didn't hurt vn
did I?"
Yes, you did!" Frisky answered
And Jimmy could see that he was
angry. "You hurt my Hp terriblv -
"Well, you must have moved u
said Jimmy. "Having a tooth pulled
is a good deal like having your pic
ture taken. You have to sit still "
Now, sitting still was something
that Frisky Squirrel was never able
to do.
"I'm sorry," he said, "but I shall
have to get along with tny teeth lust
as they are."
"Better .try once more!" Jimmy ure--
ad .him. "Most everybody hns at least lln ot said allev
rt.ia, tnnth T' . . . l,l 9 . . '"Ul.T
With a tsi,n.:
rs of th. k" SnWKi!S
"smaing to j
c exercise. " " Ui, . .
ot Safe of IW 5K
Kotic ls herehv
ft).
for rnak ...ki.
uuJect to th ,
I
ill. I-
Afl K. i . aciflUft
. "le county
o Oregon ot
26th day of Februl f,
fromud after the jS' M
"20. proceed .J, iS
following descrilrit'
Kmmng at the , l
of lot number Tta
Oregon, and runni.
along the west boundary "
lot, twenty nn "T"7 " X u
thence east parallel witw H i
boundary line of !, ,T "e tMk
line of the a.ley" ru i
block; thence souih ZT!
one tooth out. It's ouite the fashion
But Frisky would not let him. try
again.
"I haven't heard that it was the
fashion to have your lip pulled off,"
he said. "But I'll stay, here a while,"
he added. He wanted to see a tooth
pulled, even if it wasn't his own.
"Oo!" said Jimmy Rabbit. "And
after you ve seen how ea
"Ml!
said lot; thence !
line of said lot to the , f
n ng; subject to the do," 2 !
Margaret M. Burroughs uW " i
Bids to purchased & t
an ward i said real Z.
oe received by said aruardi.- .
residence. Sfifi 15
WI LI,
asily the ! street, Salem. Marion Timi
thing is done, I've no doubt you will ! from and after the 31st d -v X
want me to 'tend to your case." He j 1920, until sold. d'i
Dated this 2d day of MarclUHt !
MARGARET Bl'RR0l:GH& j
Guardian 0f the pi
was very cheerful.
But Frisky Syuirrel did not appear
very happy. His lip pained him ter
ribly.
of Julian 1). Burrough:
iSi & Biinar.
Springtime Very
Severe on Catarrh
There's No Joy In
The Glad Season
to Those Who can
Hardly Breathe
Just as the happy springtime
is about to bud forth with all its
joyful message of nature's won
derful changes, there comes a
discordant note to those afflict
ed with Catarrh, for just at this
season while the system is un
dergoing a thorough renovation,
any physical infirmity becomes
more aggravated and pronounc
u
Hence those who are victims
of Catarrh that most trouble
some and tenacious of disorders
find that with the anDroach
of spring there is a decided ten
dency for the air passages to
clog up, the throat and nostrils
become sore and inflamed so
that their breathing apparatus
operates only with the greatest
pain ana ainicuity.
beciwise she was afraid to face the
world's reproach, would go on as the
wife of a man she hated, or even
greatly disliked.
"Without love marriage is well,
its something vastly different than
was Intended
Charlie is always saying things to
me which make me probe my own
neart even if they shock me a little,
I get a man's viewpoint from Charlie
tne views a man never gives his
wire, nowerer.
(Tomorrow A Visit From Mother)
During President Wilson's illness,
Vice-President Marshall has been ad
dressed on all sorts of matters, from
petitions for federal pardon to ap
pointments in the consular service,
the people supposing that somehow
he was the president's office assist
ant and substitute. But It
en up the Gaylord home and married out, especially since the Lansing inci-
, J, oel"' Ulat the vice-president has
' "'".r rrnti. walked an absolutely correct course
Of course, your mother with her, calling a meeting of the cabinet only
mid-Victorian Ideas Is properly hor-'when especially Invited to do so by
imt-u, niiu one iiunns tutti. Hue suuuiu, ine presiuent.
be with you to counteract any rad
Spring is tlo great house
cleaning season, the time
when nature -throws off all
impurities unci takes on new
Bl'e and fresh vigor and
strength and vitality.
ical thought which Helen, If it be Hel
en, might put Into your head.
The peanut is "plndar" In India
and "goober" in Africa.
fife and fresh vigor and
strength and vitality.
Therefore, this is the best
season of the year to get real
rational results from the intelli
gent method of treating Cat-
arrh,. because the nsrht treat
ment co-operates with nature in
her rebuilding and eliminating
efforts that are now in full op
eration.
Catarrh, as any victim of this
disease will readily agree, is a
great deal more than a local ir
ritation and disarrangement of
tne breathing apparatus. If the
disease were nothing more than
this, then the usual methods of
local treatment would give some
aennite results. But have you,
in all your experience and ob
servation, even seen
il x
nunc man temporary reuait-j
suit from the use of sprays, t- f
omizers, jellies, lotions, salves
and other locally applied trckt
ment ? j
Take your own case, for in '
stance. Doubtless you tat'
faithfully tried. all of thekwl
remedies ever recormnended
Outside of possibly unstopping, 1
for the time being, tha dodged-,
up air passages, and afford!
little temporary relief from I-,
ficult breathing, what real bene
fit have you received from rat-
edies, locally applied?
'
Nature acts with Uwrwiih- t !
ncss. She will tokmite no anil i
way measures. Site inabti I
upon eradicating ail hupor- 4
ltte, and Is not content to I
havo them nierelj hiddea t!
from view. 1 t
i
1,
Nature's remedy for tk
treatment of Catarrh, is S. S. I ;
which has been so successfulls
used for this ailment for tk,
past fifty years. Made from the
roots and herbs of recognize
medicinal value, gathered direct
from the forests, this fine,
remedy stands unique in thes
nals of medicine, because
therapeutic value is in net
strict accord with the laws t
nature. , .,
Vnii Rhniild lose no time, tlr
fare, in taking advantage of tL
excellent season to get natir
assistance in cleansing P
system of Catarrh. Begin
once to take a thorough cor
of S. S. S., which will act dim.
ly upon the millions of tiny u
arrh germs that infest f
blood, and give direct, rat
results by eliminating w
from your system. S. 5. & a
at all drugstores. .
For free expert medica!
vu:e regarding your own
write fully to Chief MedicA
viser, 175 Swift Laboratory. A
lanta, Ga.
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. Such advertisers, however, are now exceptional,
of them demand verified A. B. C. circulation state.w
fore placing contracts. , .
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