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ot otherwise credited In this paper
and also local news published herein
Council Status
To Be Revealed
By City Attorney
The correct status of about seven
flalcm councilmen, that has caused
much ctmcern, is oxpoctod to be mnde
Known l.y City Attorney liert W. Macy
at the lueetitiR of the council in the
city hall tonight. The city attorney,
at the meeting of the council two
weeks apo, was ordered to bring in nn
opinion tonight, revealing future
right to authority on the council of the
members.
The council, nt Its l.t-st meeting,
passed nn ordinance establishing ward
boundaries in the city, to become ef
fective Tuesday. With this re-establishment
of the boundaries they nit
bo changed that, it is estimated, seven
coimcllmen will be thrown out of po-
nlMrniN nn the f.riiim.ll. Tt In understood
that the councilman who ar affected whole paraphernalia and propaganda of self-seekers, of politicians
by the ciwnge will resign tonight, and and partisans, and force the nomination of some broad-visioned
businessman, like Hoover, who is spurned by the politicians, but
who is recognized by the people as the type of man needed in the
White House.
CAUSE OF THE PARALYSIS
The government of the United States fails to function be
cause of politics and partisanship.
The senate has failed to ratify peace because of politics and
partisanship.
Congress has ignored reconstruction measures becauase of
qeorgb putnam. Editor-Pubiisbw I politics and partisanship. !
Decent treatment for ex-service men is refused by congress
because of politics and partisanship. j,
The war ia muckraked anid congress divides on party lines iiij
all investigation reports because of politics and partisanship.
Reforms of taxation and expenditure are refused, and com- , bov lost;
merce and industry permitted to lanquish and congress makes a- roorrrs. Rabbit didn't know what
new record of legislative inaction because of politics and par-j to do. jter son jimmy had not been
tisanship. "
Statesmanship, citizenship, honesty and common sense have
been discarded in congress because of politics and partisanship.
Everything that is done or left undone is for the sole reason
of its influence upon the coming election, for the- glittering
promises of fulfilment that can- be held forth in the campaign for
votes.
We have turned over the government to narrow partisan
politicians and as a result we have lack of leadership, indecision
and paralysis, and a complete breakdown in legislative affairs.
Any business on earth managed in such fashion faces bankruptcy
and destruction.
Shall we continue to turn over affairs of the people to the
politicians to play their selfish games of greed and grab for spoils?,
Shall we permit these politicians to continue to misrule the 1
country by letting them name the candidates for the rest of us to .
vote for or shall we name them ourselves?
The malady of the nation is politics and partisanship. Its
cure lies in cutting out the cancer of politics and installing a non
political administration of proven capacity, common sense and
common honesty that will act for the welfare of all the people
and not for the party bosses and political advantage.
Shall we continue to wear the blinders of party prejudice to
the profit of the politicians, helpless pawns in a vicious game of
privilege, or shall we oust the usurpers of popular rights and re
store sanity and service to public service ?
It is up to the people of both parties to throw overboard the
ffl ImtlolL BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
oame session. This was discussed tin.
o. ...... ... . the iuh...w ....,rting
the meeting two weeks ago. -
The police imd health and fire and
water committees of the council are
to report tonight their action on peti
tions of city firemen and policemen for
(2.1 monthly salary raises.
State Has No
Control Over
Railroad Line
The Oregon public service commls
flon has no jurisdiction to change the
ntandavil time under which railroad
companies shall operate, In the opin
ion of Attorney General ltrown. The
Opinion was given in reply o a request
from the Oregon commission which
has been asked by the Idaho- commis
sion t co operate with that body In
changing the standard time under
which trains on the Oregon Short Line
operato between I'ocntollo, IJi.. and
Huntington, Oregon, from Pacific
lime to mountai n time. Inasmuch lis
a few miles of this division of thaOre
pon Short Line Is in Oregon, it Is
pointed but, the co-operation of the
Oregon commission would be neces
sary in ovdor to make the change in
timo complete, undoperntlvo.
could she find. No one had seen him.
At last Mi-s. Rabbit happened to
meet Jasper Jay.
"Have you seen Jimmy?" she asked.
"Yes!" he said. "Right after break
fast I saw him hurrying along the
road by the river. The gypsies have a
camp there. And I wouldn't be a bit
surprised if they had stolen him," he
added very cheerfully.
When Mrs. Rabbit heard that she
was terribly upset.
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear! she cried.
"Whatever shall I do?"
"The usual tiling," Jasper Jay told
her, "Is to offer a reward."
"Is that so?" said Mrs. Rabbit
"I've never done anything like that.
Will you help me?"
"Why, certainly!" said Jasper. And
he set to work and painted a big sign,
which looked like this:
Ijost, Strayed, or Stolen!
A boy in a checkered suit, with a
short tail and long ears. He answers
to the name of Jimmy Rabbit. A re
T.y the time he had reached Henry wara wiI1 be pai(1 fQr his retUrn, and
Skunk, Jimmy could think of nothing no questions asked,
new to say. Mrs. Rnbbit.
Near the Big Pine Tree.
"There!" said Jasper Jay, proudly.
That ought to fetch him, if any-
And he and Mrs. Rabbit
TenYenm
YoungerThan
' Id
MONDAY v
"--UU.a ir
His Years
home since early morning; and she
was sure, he was lost. She hurried
through thn urnnta l.w.L-ino- trf l.im
everywhere. But not a trace of him hi"B
took the sign down to the road and
Rubin Ekin Dies
From Spanish Flu
Humanity contributed another to
the Influenza toll early tiundy morn
ing when Rubin H. Ekin, 42, died of
the disease at his homo, 9S8 Trade
fltreet. Mrs. Maud Ekin, his wife, and
their four children, Harry, Arthur,
OiTllle and Bertha are also confined
to (lie home suffering with influi'ima
Mr. Eltln was employed at the Clms
K, Bpnuldlng Logging oomprtny i.l'mt
litre as a fireman before ho became
ill. He was born in Halem and has re
sided here nnd In the county most of
Ills life, The body is at tho Rigdon
Hon parlors.
Tlesliles his family Mr. RUln is sur
vived by one brother, Charles Kkln,
route il, Salem; and two sisters, Mrs.
Jennie .Innsrude, Oherryvnle, Or.,
and Mis. Mary A. Itimier, Halem.
oil rnoM coourcn kocks
There are two sources from wliii-r
oil may be obtained, one from the tin
rterground lakes found chiefly in Hns
Bla and America, and the other from e
rock called shale, which is a.-uiurnied
with oil like a sponge with water. Ii
Scotland scrernl million gallons of ol
have been obtained from shale fo
ninny years past.
Shale mining Is similar to roM min
ing. It being soft and flaky. It is put
Into big cooking' vessels and cooked
until it glvfst off the oil In tho form of
n vaor, which Is condensed Rr.d purl
fled, resulting In tbe ordinary paraf
fin oil.
RUINING THE COUNTRY PRESS.
Small papers throughout the United States and Canada are
suspending publication because "of the impossibility of securing
news print, the prohivitive price that must be paid when it can be
secured and the high wage scales and increased cost of production.
The situation is so acute that the question has been raised as to
whether the country press as an institution is not doomed.
Paper is high because the big city papers have contracted
nearly all the mills' production and have forced the price up by
bidding against each other for the paper not contracted. Advertis
ing and circulation have increased until the demand for paper ex-
ceeds the production. Congress, coerced by the big paper influence,
refuses to regulate, the size of papers admitted to the mails and
there is no relief in sight.
Some of the large eastern papers, like the Chicago News,
the Chicago Tribune, the New York papers and the Hearst pub
lications have voluntarily reduced the size of their issues and
raised rates to curtail the volume of business to help the situa
tion, but many city newspapers refuse co-operation. ,
Commenting upon the situation, the Eugene Guard remarks:
"The country press is not dead yet, but it is dying. Its resources are
limited, ' It cannot arbitrarily raise advertising rates nnd there is a limit to
its subscription price. It must pay the high wages of the city. Everything
that enters Into its cost of production has gone "out of sight". It can live
only if it can command the support and loyalty of its community. And
that It ought to have. It would have It, too, If the community really real
ized the Hot-vice these small papers perform. Realization will come when
.'these papers disappear and the community, without a medium of expres
sion, finds Itself left to the callous indifference or sneering jibes of the big
city daily. Tho small paper generally has a heart. It also needs a head
the day of the conjunction of ignorance and ink has about gone. But If a
community has a paper, however smalt, that has a head and a heart, It
should cling to that psper with all the support at Its command. If not, it
will find Itself Isolated, indeed." j
Small papers in Oregon have greater handicaps than those' of
any other state because of the hostile attitude of the big city
newspapers. The Journal has crippled tne country press ana ma
teriallv reduced its income by initiating and forcing the passage
of laws fixing advertising rates and curtailing legal publications,
while the Orcgonian and Telegram wantonly waste enough paper
to supply all the other papei'3 of the state and in addition cut cir
dilation prices in the country to a point below that which local
papers can meet, in a systematic effort to ruin the country press.
If the country press in Oregon is doomed, the blame can le
placed upon the journalistic hogs of Portland.
Rippling Rhymes
BY WAL" MASON
m0i .-"
IN THE HOLE.
. If you're in the hole at present, when the times are brisk and
pleasant, and the stream of scads is flowing everywhere, its lus
tre showing, what will be your situation if a panic hits this na
tion ? If a bigger bill you're running, if you keep the merchants
dunnincr. now that every form of cash is growing thickyl on the
bushes, where. 0 neighbor; shall we find you when the hard times
come and grind you ? Every gent is earning wages never known in
bygone ages; situations are a-plenty, lor each man are eight or
twenty : and there's such a wealth of plunder that we tread the
blamed stuff under. Every delegate who's willing has his chance
to make a killinir. has a chance to store the guilders, like the other
fortune builders. If you cannot do some saving, now that all the
world is raving in its lust for reckless spending, where, O neigh
bor, are vou wending? To the poorhouse in the valley, where the
' . . i n s-n it i - j 1
down-aiul-outers rally l to tne ciump wnere jays are caneci wnen
they're strapped and broken hearted ?
case of Charlie and me. He grew up hung It on a fence-post
in my father's family and had always "Why do you say 'No questions
called my mother "mother." I do not asked'?" she inquired,
know the time that he did not love me "That's the way it's always done,"
more than he did a sister. I am very said Jasper.
fond of him. I lean upon him more Now, it was almost as Jasper Jay
than upon any other person I have had thought. Jimmy Rabbit was at
known, and yet the mere thought of the gypsies' camp. But he hadn't
the man I married gives me a greater been stolen. He was skulking about,
thrill than I have ever known from as near the gypsies as he dared to go.
Charles' most wonderful devotion. And he was so interested in what he
My mother came slowly back to a saw that he had entirely forgotten
world that was not made wholly of to go home to dinner. But late in
pain. She smiled at Charles and me the afternoon he began to have such
wanly and her eyelids closed as a queer feeling in his stomach that!
though she was satisfied to be with he remembered then that he had had
those of all the world she loved best, nothing to eat since breakfast. And
I know It was a great disappoint- he started off up the road, towards
ment to my mother that I had not home.
married Charles but the marriage You can imagine how surprised he
vow is so sacred to her that after she ws when he stopped and read Jas-
knew that I had wedded John she Pe" Jay sign. As soon as he had
never mentioned her blasted hopes. re'l it a second time he decided that
wow more than ever, I am sure, she M nat better hurry home a little fas-
reeis that I made a great mistake, I ter. For he could see that his mother
but I know that she will never indl- was worried.
cate tnis to me in any way. Jimmy jumped through the
finally Charlio left me to prepare fence and went hopping across the
my mother for bed. She hardly stir- meadow. Boon he was honie ae-ain
red even when the telephone rang and and Mrs- Rabbit was hugging him and
i ioumi tnat Helen and Bobbie had asking mm where he had been and
come over for a week-end visit with what he had been doing.
me. I Jimmy was just going to tell her
I wanted to see you. Katherlne." But he happened to think that when
said Helen, "and Bobble was tired his mother learned that he had been
after his trip, so we decided we could Rt the gypsies' camp all day she
nave a little rest over here, you can't n"Bni not De pleased. And then he
ten now nappy he la that we have remembered that sign.
pit-Keu up our inendship again. We wn "on t you answer me?" Mrs.
won t think of- coming up tonight aa Ra,'bt asked. "You'd better speak up
juui iiiuiner is in, put well see you al uoue. wnere nave you been?
in me morning as soon as you will tne sign said 'No questions
"-'l us. aKeu !" jimmy reminded her,
l nave just helped mother to bed, I vvnen she heard that, Mrs. Rabbit
answered, "and I will be glad if you saspea.
win mun come up to my Bitting room. I les; Jimmy went on. "And it
I want you to meet my cousin who sai(1 'A reward will be paid for his
came over with my mother. You return v
Know, ne nns always been like al -uls- "abblt gasped again. She saw
orotner to me and a son to her. lnat -""Per Jay had get her into
uon t let us disturb vou." said ""uuie. u seemed to her that It ,w.i,i
Helen. be very hard to have to pav a reward
I shall be very glad to have you 1 10 her own son. But Mrs. Rabbit was
come uecause i am not sleepy and L' person wno always kept her word
dm drt tlrttVili-iri. T . "Wall " J , .
" ni mauler, i want io 1 ,, auui, wnat do you
1111 'u nuw mucn' i nnve miuaefi aut:
'U-" . "I think," Jimmy told her, '
"Did you dear? That makes me! 1 would like something to eat."'
very hitppy. I do not have so many "Then the gypsies didn't give
friends nowadays that the thought yom' dinner," Mrs. Rnbbit said.
tnat some one misses me does not Mother!" Jlmmv answered
.......r me icci u kiow aoout my Heart. ne uiougm. so vou see that
However, I won't talk any more over JIrs- Rabbit found out where he had
the phone. Bob says that's one of mv been. "'ter all, even thomrh he ,i,,i
Doesn't it make you feel
good cause you to straight
en up and feel "chesty"
when someone guesses your
age at ten years or so
younger than- you really
are? You look into your
mirror, smile with satisfac
tion and say to yourself:
"Well, he didn't make such
a bad guess, jat that." ,
' The point is: You're no
older than your vitality.
If a man is strong, vigor
ous, mentally alert, fine and
fit at 50 he has a better
chance of living up to 80
than a man of 30 who is
weak and run-down has of
- living up to 60. 5ihile none
of us can stay the years nor
stop time, we should all
make an heroic effort to suc
cessfully resist the effects
of time by ever keeping our
vitality at par.
When you sense a feeling
of slowing down of. your
physical forceswhen your
stomach, liver, kidneys'and
other organs show signs of
weakness when you notice
a lack of your old time "nen"
and "punch" in oth
f3 - J
l s
a ,v i
IT nr Sat i. 1
mence at nn n
strength and endueeb.
mm
The Great Genera! Ton
This master body-builder m?,
mju tow vim in mvm
p.
very lib of
jour may.
Vou will be
urpriied how
much better
you'll foe after
takinn a treat
ment of LYKO,
if you are tired
na worn out,
nervously Ind
pnyscally
mildly laxative
keepe the
bowele in tine
',7
A
and i'
It's f
condition. Get i Vin
a bottle from .l,",,"".1" tl ml
words wTien you feel your vitality LYKO MEDICINF Tmi ,
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HIM IH t
"that
you
greatest faults. We will be rlirht un
I hastily changed Into a soft negli
sree which I had not had time to do
durinpf mother's seizure.
"Clinrles!", I called, "the Qaylords
are coming up, I want you to meet
them."
"All rlRht,
iTiftht here."
I came into the room hint ns Helen
mm liobliy walked In,
he Answered, "I'll be
no questions.
u is very hard to keep anything
.win une s momer.
The water power of France is esti
mated at 10,000.000 horsepower a
compared with 7,000.000 horsepower
for Norway and 6,000,000 horsepower
for Sweden.
Before the war onlv nlri,i 7sn r.
One view nf hnntftinu-fli. ... i
Helen's face .,,! i w.w -u. T .v. ul a further
h"hu vy i-iirni tne enost atnikeii n ih
' was developed dur
between.
(To Be Continued)
llld bV the pnH r.f loo.
1.1100,000 horsepower, of 16 per cent of
trance's resources, will be worked
IMPORTANT CHANGES
IN
PASSENGER TRAINS
ILOVE andMARlPD IIFH
Idah MSGlone Gibson
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i
BAKE-RITE BREAD
Hot Rolls, Doughnuts, Cakes, Pies, Cookies.
Bake-Rite Sanitary Bakery
457 State Street.
H
Visit troin ticH'n ami imu -..,miiig we tan; we Just have to
Mother had bee.i softly sleeping in: wait until the pain vanishes, but
the other room while we were talk- every time she has one of these nt-
iiir. ami nil at once I saw CharleS tllcks lt Ieaves npr Wpnker Thla he
sprlnc to his feet and incline his eariu ,0 ,p x w.lg y,amns ,ho
toward the doorway. At the sound of, ,, wnlch hp wa. nnurinsr ,lwn
a peculiar little gasping slsh we sim-'by drop a nowfrful medicine.
aneously rushed for the door and I no Timid Tremhli-s
oame loRetther with a shook that I jjy hand trembled so that I could
would have taken me off my feet If mH hold the snoon.nnd so he took It
Charles had not thrown his arms from me nnd T mnm-el..,t hn..
around me to steady me. Vith hl: earefullv he measured the fluid and
arms still nhout me we hurried to how doxterionsly he raised my mother
mother's rot and found her Rnsplnj: jUSt enottRh to allow her to swallow
in pain. Wo Worked over her for, the drauchL Thai-lea h. w
some minutes before she was able to better SOn to my mother than I have
lo anvihlnir but moan and it seemed: hnen a
A f-1kr with a pleaMn' peiHOualitJ lt me that she would never be able ti!Self. nnd I felt verv miibv i,w,'i
nn' a piaty fair suit o' clotuw hs coti,enk to me again. Many times I realized that nltho'tifth he loved my
tu' world by th' tail. "Hoosier CrdAm" looked at Ciiarltw in supplication. ! mother much of the care he was Riv
Is th' nume of a fi -.want cosmetic in-. "Can't you do somethin more?, ing to her was tiestowed because he
Has she had these attacks often? I loved me.
;,"k,M' t Some sage has said that propinquity
"No," he answered; ' we are doing spells affinity, but It did not in the
vnnie.l liv Mim Fawn Lipulnrut f-r oh
llteratin' civrir'-'te burns dot h' vNh-iione.
iildre.il
Ailments
TVISORDERS of the stomach and consripation are I
&J the mqft common diseases of children. To
correct them you will find nothing better than
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 eivine them castor oil. PViotl,-.
lam a Tablets are better and more pleasant to take.
r ,1,1 . nj . immmIj. '
imwi i?i hm iu t life iMiitat
ON THE
OREGON ELECTRIC RAILWAY
In effect Monday, March 15
Northbound
No. 24 Heretofore leaving Salem 8 :55 a. m. for Wood
burn will be discontinued.
Portland Local Train No. 12 Will leave Salem 11:30
a. m. instead of 12:05 p. m.; arrive Portland 1:45 p. m. in
stead of 2:20.
New Express Train No. 14 Will leave Salem 1:40 p.
m. ; arrive Portland 8:45, making local stops between Salem
and Tualatin, except Losranville and Fellers. It will have a
connection1 to Woodburn Saturday and Sunday only. It will
; arrive Salem 1 :35 p. m. leaving Eugene 11 :15 a. m., stopping
at all intermediate stations.
New Local Train No. 24 For Woodburn will leave
Salem 3:30 p. except Saturday and Sunday.
Limited Train No. 16 Will continue to leave Salem at
4:00 p. m.; arrive Portland 5:45 instead of 5:55, stopping
only at West Woodburn ; also to discharge passengers daily
at Tualatin and Garden Home- and except Saturday and
Sunday at Donald. South of Salem, stops will be made only
at Junction City, Harrisburg, Gray (Corvallis), Albany and
Oryille. It will carry observation-parlor car and coaches.
No. 20 Will -leave Salem 5:30 p. m. as heretofore for
Portland, but will start from Corvallis instead of Salem,
leaving Corvallis 4:10 p. m.; Albany 4:35, making local
stops south of Salem.
Southbound.
New Local Train No. 1 Will leave Portland 6:30 a.
m.; arrive Salem 8:30 a. m., Eugene 10:50 a. m., making
local stops south of Garden Home, except Hazelau and
Wintel.
Limited Train No. 5 Will leave Portland 8:30 a. m." in
stead tjf 8:15; arrive Salem 10:11 instead of 10:15; Eugene,
12:25 p. m. instead of 12:35, stopping only at Tualatin, West
Woodburn, Salem, Orville, Albany, Gray (Corvallis), Har
risburg and Junction City. It will carry observation-parlor .
car and coaches.
Train No. 7 From Portland will continue to aan
Salem 12:50 p. rrf. and will run through to Corvallis instead
of terminating at Salem, making stops south of Salem a
. cept Wintel.
Local Train No. 23 from Woodburn will arrive Salem
3:05 p. m., instead of 8:35 a. m.
. Express Train No. 13 Will leave Portland 4:45 Mjj
instead of 4:50; arrive Salem 6:40 as heretofore. It'1'1
not stop at Nasom, Tonquin, Prahl, Wallace, Butteviue,
Fellers, Loganville, Concomly, East Independence and 1
Minor changes Vill be made on other trains, details ol
which will be shown in folders.
J. W. RITCHIE.
Agent Salem.
mggg
LADD & BUSH
BANKERS
Established 1868
General Banking Business
Office Hours from 10 a. m. to 8 p.
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