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PAGE FOIL THE CAPITAY JOURNAL THURSDAY. MAY e, 1921 THE CAPiTALJOLIRNAL AN INDEPENDENT KKWSPAPER FiiWiahud every evuiu exuept Sunday by Tha Capital Journal Print ing Co., 131 South Commercial atreet. telephone Circulatiou ana Busl wi Office. 81; Editorial rooms. 82. a. PUTNAM, Editor and PubUahar. Kiiird aa aeuond ciiuM Biail mat ter at Salm, Oregon. Biruai-HIPTlnN RATES By carrier eent a month. By mall 60o a month, $1.15 for three aaontha, $2 25 for alx month, 14 per year In Marion and Polk countiea. Blaewhere $3 a year. B order of V. 8. (rorirnment, all Stall fubecripUoni are payable In ad vance. Ward. Tribune Bldg.. New York: W. H. 8toekwe.lI, People Gaa bids, Chicago. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED ERESS The Aaaoclated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the me for publication ef all newa dispatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In Ihla paper And also local newa published herein. 0 regon bservations Hood Ttlver Sheriff Johnson Wed nesday received a telegram from fhlef t polloe of Minneapolis. Minn.. that he had arreted U. Clay Craw ford, former director of physical train Ing nt the Hood 'River high sn'hool. who in wanted here on a charge of defrauding faculty member and tu- flent out of nearly $2000. Sheriff Johnson naked for the arrest follow ing receipt of n telegram from Ciooknton, Minn., authorities, who fltuteil that the former teacher had attempts rtsulclde. in Mini en polls, but was at a hospital recovering. ' Portland The estate of the late I'hll Metschan, Sr., former state treas urer of Oregon, is valued at $265, $43.17 according to the Inventory and sppralsement filed, in the pro bate department of the circuit court by the appraisers. Eugene Lane county is due to look like a transplanted section of Kan eta this summer when the 100 farm ers, whom the Dunk of Commerce of Kugene is supplying with sunflower aeed. get busy. Success of experi ments with the sunflower In Klamath county led to the bank's action. "ROUGH-NECK AND MOSS-BACK.' Under the above caption the Astoria Budget resents a Salem newspaper paragraphers quip styling it the rough-neck city, with the following ill-humored attack: "Astoria has been enterprising and progressive enough to lay out a pro gram for the development of her own destiny and has not achieved her present growth or prosperity by grace of having her fore-feet in the state trough. "Her nourishment has come from industries and not from Institutions supported by public appropriations and, though her exterior may not be as pleasing to the eye as her Willamette valley sister, -an examination will probably show that the tissue of her body la more sound and healthy. "A comparison of the vote of Clatsop and Marion counties on the var ious measures which have made for the progress and development of Oregon will prove quite conclusively that the citizenship of the former has been a much greater asset to the state than haa that of the latter. We may be a bit crude down here and a little ahy on Salemian culture, but we have been spared the unenviable distinction of having voted overwhelmingly 2EPV-VISrA TTHS TOSiE IF ISQaflSWyq -x uu UO li u j 3 JY ARTHUR SCOTT BAIWEY Young Woman Of St. Paul Passes After Long Illness 8t. Paul, OrH May 6. The funeral of M'ss Laura Fuher, IT, who died last week following an illness of several months, was held from St. Paul's church Saturday, May 1. Mixa Faber had been a sufferer for a number of years, and had endeared herself to the entire community by her cheerfulness and patience. Tier remains were accompanied to the rem ctery by 40 white clad girls. The no live pall bearers were Maurice Smith, James McKay, HuhwU (loodlng, Basil J'lllett, Peter Kirk nnd ' Lawrence Jlunrilng. . Honoiury pull bearers were the Mix Irene Merten, Rekn nren tano, Hilda Seguln, Viola Conner, Anna Conner, Frances Opltss, Eva 111 lott and Rita Gooding. On Saturday, May 8, a concert will 1)0 given by outside talent, which promises to be a rare treut for those who uttend. Artists of exceptional ability have been secured for the oc casion, - rrenurnUons for the fair. May 10 are progressing rapidly, and the Indl catlons are that It will be one of the most successful affair of this chai acter ever presented In the city, pa Irons In charge of Xho event are tire less In their efforts to make it a suc cors, and a number of original nnd clever features have been arranged. Women Workers In Near East Are Ordered To Quit Datum, Caucasia, May 'B. (By the Associated Press.) All American wo men workers with the American com mittee for relief in the Near East l.,.,.- !..... ordered into Tiflla by Col Onel William N. llnokell, in chnrjre of operations, as a result oi me cap i,.,. ,f iti.Wn hv the ltusslan bolxhe , vtwl, A fw women engaged In relief work north of the uuucaiua iiiuiiu tains hava been sent her. Georgia haa refused to permit Ar nienian railroads to 'obtain nil, cans. inff virtual susuenslon of railway truffle and Interruption of the ship meat ot relief auppltea. a n.., nt nuoi-irla with the bol njiuuiw, - . i i . ...... nhevlkl la expected Boon. If the allied forcei do hot tuke over control here, It la believed Armenia may form an alliance with the soviet. HIGHER KATK ASRP.D Application for an Increase In tele phone rates was filed with the public swrvlo commission Wednesday, by the Fossil Telephone company, of rossll Wheeler county. THE ACCIDENT. Chippy, Jr., proved to be a great sue cess. Even Mrs. Rusty Wren had to ad mit before he had finished his first against: day's work,' that he was an agreeable every educational measure on the state ballot for the past ten years nor doj person to have about the house. we harbor in our midst right now the only organization in Oregon that is j Of course, he Isn't much of a sing opposing the millage bills for the support of our achoola We may be lack-jer," she remarked to Rusty, "but he ing in refinement but, manic uoa, we are enugntene aenougn to appreciate' seems to have a quick eye for an in- the needs ot tne state ana unscmsn enougn to cast our support ior xneir attainment.. We would much prefer to be a rusty screw la the ship's pro peller than a beautiful barnacle on her bottom. r t , ; A rough-neck city Astoria may be but a moss-back city never." Most of what the Budget says is true of the past -but we hope not true of the present. Salem is growing out of the narrow provincialism that characterized the. capital city in the days gone by. Her life is no longer centered in state institutions. She has become a manufacturing and industrial city utilizing the products of the most fertile valley of Oregon and the change has broadened the vision and widened the perspective of her citizens. ! While it is true that we have one organization that is oppos ing educational measures and good roads, we have many organ izations woorking for themr While we have a few who place the dol lar above the child and whose great concern is to hold down taxes we also have many who are enlightened and progressive enough to rally to the support of measures designed for the welfare of the people and the development of the state. As Astoria is fast losing the rough-neck characteristics that typified the early days of the seaport, so is Salem losing the moss-back propensities that made her a synonym for prejudiced provincialism, and a source of derision to the state. "Hurry Up!" said Rusty Wren. THE REAL CAUSE. The only moves made by congress to curtail the high cost of living or to .provide necessary reconstruction legislation are investigations and with every investigation, the prices soar still higher. i Sugar began to climb as soon as congress began to probe. Congressional investigation sent the prices of shoes arid other ar ticles upward. The more congress probes paper mills, the higher goes the price of paper. And so all along the line. Why doesnt congress act? Because it is following a definite plan of sabotage, inspired by the desire to discredit President ;WiIson and his administration, to create unrest and discontent to reap political advantage m the presidential election. ' ; ' Since the republicans secured control of congress, all legisla tion, with the exception of one or two measures, has been held up in order to throw the blame for conditions upon the democratic party. The republican leaders have blocked legislative proceedure, not only with the peace treaty, but every other meas ure. The welfare of the country, as that of the world, has waited on the political maneuvers of small visioned partisans. These investigations have cost the nation many millions of dollars and accomplished nothing. Every phase of the conduct of the war has been probed, with a view to discrediting its man. agement and with the sole result of a 3 by 2 partisan report- not disclosing facts sufficient for congressional action. N Now, industry is under the probe despite the fact that con gress refuses to heed the plea of industry, revise war taxation, ratify peace and pass essential pleasures. Industry is handicap- pea by conditions congress refuses to remedy and if the probe was other than grand-standing for votes, it would disclose that the source of the ills that afflict the nation is congressional sabot age the use by congress of the very weapon whose utilization by labor is stigmatized a crime. KitB at II .25 Hit hour" p'untber Is hut tori proud V atop work n' t.tlk if lie pita a chance. Tlier's lots ' f.tt-tl- T -.mi.t!tt in Hi' fit-id ij: iot t The fear that capital punishment exercises on the murderer is shown in the case of Walter Andrew Watson, the Los Angeles blue-beard, who has confessed to the murder of at least five of ins many wives and pointed out the grave of one of his victims, Watson says that all he wanted or expected to accomplish by his coniession was to escape the gallows. Rippling Rhymes HOUSECLEANING. I u like to be an Eskimo and in an igloo dwell, and eat fried ite and snow, and go outdoors and yell. , The humble Eskimo is glad, we see him dance and sing: his womenfolk don't drive him mud by cleaning house each spring. He isn't driven out of doors to hui.t for frozen grub, the while the women scrub the floors there are no floors to scrub. He is not chased, to beat the band, from out the divers rooms, by dames with brooms and mops in hand there are no mops or brooms. Year after year he sits in peace, or lies upon his back, clothed in his wholesome film of grease, and no one cleans the shuck. His treasured goods are not mislaid, mr mine are, every year; and he can find his blubber spade, his corkscrew and his spear. And if he spills a cataract of ashes on the floor, no woman reads the riot act, no female heart is sore. I'll go to join the Eskimo when next a vessel starts, for I am tired of all the woe that cleaning house imparts. I'm tired cf sitting on the stairs, oppressed by fantoda three, because the couches and thft chair an hung upon a tree LOVE and MARRIED LIFE . By the Noted Author IDAII McGLONE GIBSON A iIIT FROM JOHN-. I illdnf waken until the next morn ing was well advanced. The knowledge of what was coming oppressed my first wakening thought. There was such a difference in my feelings from those I had when I first found mj'Ctf about to become a mother. I felt that the gates of heaven had opened, and I hardly dared look with In for the brightness, the golden radi ance seemed almost more than I could bear, And now, nothing but shadows, nothing but the blackness of despair, and in the background of my mind a feeling of sinfulness that i felt aa I did about the coining of a child. " I tried to put the whole thing out of my mind, but It came with renewed In tensity us Hannah brought in my breakfast and the usual box of geor geou roses that John had sent me ev ery day since he left. "Shall 1 put the flowers In a vase," Katharine?' "asked Hanah. "ro Just as you please, Hannah," I said drearily. ! Your room Is sn full of flowers now, she remarked. "Yes, the fragrance of roses almost overpowera me. Take Them to ( linrolt. All riiiht. honey. I'll tell you what we'll do." said Hannah. "We'll lust take these new ones and send thorn over to the church. They'll look lovely on the altar tomorrow morning. I ll have lUm Alice write a little nrte and say yott are sending them In memory of your mother." "That will be t-harmlng." I Mid heartily, "nut first you mu-it look In llu' li,x, John lrs been i the halilt of ;-:.difi(S m a ntie with t!";-n." Hannat undid. the wrappings and found the usuaHiote Inside. She hand ed It to me rather triumphantly. I was disinclined to open It before her, be cause In Hannah's eyes I waa happily married; but she looked o expectant 'that I finally broke the seal. "I bought the house yesterday dear est, and I am eagerly waiting for you to come and decorate and furnish it as you please. I had the deed made out in your name. Mother has made a great fuss and declares It is imposslb- ,1a for her to live alone, but I told her she hadn't been happy a minute since you came at least she made you un happy by giving you to understand as tuuen. And that now. when she had a chance to live In the old house for the rest of her Ufe, she ceuld make me think she was going to be miserable. Can Not Keep Fp Expensca, ""She Intimated that It would not be possible for her to keep up the expen ses of the house, and I told her that I would do that. Every time t have been to our new house, Katherine, I like it better and better.- We are going to be able to entertain a great deal. You know we have not had our friends about us often since we were married. Hut now we will show this old town the door. For some reason due, per haps, to the way the opening was made for some reason he could get into the house more easily than he could get out of it He said nothing about this new dif ficulty, not wishing to disturb the hap piness of the Wren family nor find himself out of work, either. Since he continued to grow from day to day there could be but one outcome. And at last when Rusty came home late one afternoon with a plump in sect in his bill he found Chippy, Jr., blocking the doorway. HiTTT ed through th m ! his face wore a worried eS2; 44 ."Hurry up!" said Rusty , come in." 1 it to And at that Chippy jr w struggle to get out But h.f? u move either forward or back. ' ' be apry!" Busty aid "Dont Veep me waiting. h edChlPP7. Jr.. looked actually .'Tm stuck fast! move eihter way!" h0 "I aoa 'He's a spry worker," he said. "He can get through our door as easily as I can. He went in and out of thj? house two hundred and fifty-seven times today; and not once did he get stuck in the doorway." For several days everything went so smoothly in Rusty Wren's household that his wife began to feel more likel absolutely hopeless and past cure by hereelf again. Jasper Jay did not j any physician or medicine, but they tKm may yet be palliated and a medicine HOPELESS DISEASES CAN NOT BE CURED BY DOCTORS OR MEDICINE There are some diseases which are and there was plenty of food for all thanks to the untiring efforts of Chip py, Jr. Though she tried her hardest Mrs. Rusty couldn't think of anything to worry about. And her husband fre quently remarked that it was a lucky day for all of them when he decided to hire a boy. Both Rusty and his wife had quite If It does not help in one case, mjiy help in another. To any one suffer ing from a disease a remission is a degree of health and a medicine that relieves or palliates a disease is of great benefit We can not guaran tee to cure any disease with umber 40 for the Blood, but we quote word for word what -the ingredients 'in 40 forgotten the strange feeling of that!8 reconii.iei.ueu .r m good little lady's that some sort of . Dispensatory and New American Ma trouble was coming to them on ac- teria Medica : "In th treatment of , . , . ... , . blood troubles an acknowledged rem- count of taking an outsider into the ' 1 . . . uiJo. . ? edy among all schoolB of physicians, nouse. removes the cause of disease, -stlmu- So the days passed happily for them., thu3 , And all the while the, six children 8 encollraglng nutritlon. Dls were fast growing bigger. The proud! . ' , tho orvnlla fivatpm ,lpmllnl1 sect, and he is kind to the children. He is very neat, besides. I have watch-1 to see that Chippy, ed him sharply," she added, "and I haven't caught, him tracking any dirt into the house nor brushing any off his clothes onto my clean floor, eii ther." Rusty, too, declared himself well satisfied 'With his helper. parents often remarked that they had never before known youngsters to change so rapidly. So interested were Rusty and his wife in their children that they failed Jr., was growing likewise. Indeed, he now overtopped Rusty by half a head. But the Wrens both husband and wife entirely ov erlooked that fact. Neither did they happen to notice that Chippy Jr., was beginning to have a good deal of trouble squeezing thru this remedy, Buch as neuralgias, chron io rheumatism, gouty condition intoxication, consUpation. land T phenomenal success in ecsem. skin diseases, lumbago, snnda swellings, ulcerations of mucas tT branes and In general disorders oftk stomach, river, kidneys and ,plMT; Prepared by J. C. MendenhaH. Eml ville, Ind., 40 years a druggist King, 802 E. 4th St., Pueble, the following statement: "I suffertd for a number of years with kidaw trouble, sciatic rheumatism and coa stipation, tried numerous remedia with little or no benefit I was iT duced to try Number 40 for the Blooi I found I was benefited from th, start, and after' taking six bottle . ceived such wonderful satisfactory tt. sutls, I am prompted to make tka statement." Witness to signature, Ed. ward Reiss, druggist. Sold at So'h.. ers drug store. (adr) Just what real enjoyment means. "I am crazy to get it all fixed up. If you hadn't made such a fuss, my dear, at the way I had thin house decorated and furnished, I could have it all fixed up for you by the time you came bar I am sure in my own mind that this would be much the best way, but for once I am going to give into your ideas General Leonard Wood, with a total and I am not going to open my mouth of 81,574 votes apparently is assured about one thing, hi or outside of your of a plurality of almost ten thousand house. ... over Senator Hiram W. Johnson of "How soon do you think you can California, who has 72,432 on the face have Jt furnished? I want to give a of unofficial returns from 3183 pre- big party soort. Today's paper, which I cincts out of 3387 Jn Indiana in Tues- am Bending under separate cover, has day's presidential preference pnmurj Wood's Lead In Indiana Grows In Late Returns Indianapolis Ind., May 6. Majoi a very splendid notice of my-purchase of the house, and I hope -you will be pleased with your present as I am In giving It to you."7', Isn't It a terrible thing that we want and want and want things, and then just wnen we don't; want them any more, they come to us. I had begged of John to have a little home for us, as I was not happy with his mother and he would not: listen to me. Fates Prove Contrary. I wanted my first baby, perhaps, more than anything else in thi world, and fate took it fropi m, and now, when I want nelthsw houses nor child ren, I am having IJbth. "Has Miss Alice gone out?" I asked Hannah. "Yes," she said. "I saw her going out Just as I came upstairs." "Was she walking or driving?" "Driving," said Hannah, "At least there was a taxi at the door." "When she comes In will you ask her to come up to my room," I said. For I had made my decision about John as much as any other woman makes a decision, impulsively. I deter mined to write the whole thing to John, to do what he would call "plac ing my cards on the table," and let him decide. Tomorrow A New Idea. t . , The Seufert cannery, near The Dal les, states that .owing to the extreme low wnter in the Columbia, fish whe.,h will be practically useless at. the open ing of the season. Scow fishing, how ever, will not be Interfered with. Suf ficient water for wheel fishing by late June is predicted. election. The 204 missing precincts are in fourteen scattered counties of the 92 in the state. Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illi nois with, a total of 38,82 votes con tinues in third place, while Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio is fourth with 19.-216. General Wood, returns Indicate, has carded nine of the -thirteen congress ional districts in the state and has a plurality in fifty-three counties where unofficial reports are complete. Sena tor Johnson won four congressional districts, and 24 counties. Governor Lowden carried three counties and Sen ator Harding one, Ohio county. Four teen counties are in doubt. H. J. Bernard, San Francisco whole saler, and C. FTWaymire of Sacramen to, deportation agent for the state of California, both temporarily at Salem, are 300,000 in their forecasts of the primaries in California. Bernard says it will be Hoover and.Waymire says it will be Johnson by 150,000. The largest walnut grove In the United States Is near Amity, Oregon. W'JW J Ml Ik The Choice Prizes of Life Are Won By the Healthy and Strong The waak, toft, flabby-muided tho who deficient fa vigor and vital force-tan ever had to suffer the humiliation of feeing ruthlessly shoved aside by their stronger mak A clear, ruddy complexion; bright eyas; hard sd saueetee: and a wll knit-together body of elastic step and sway, constitute a trump card in any game whether oi love or busioeu ' If yoa feel that you are out classed, lacking the stamina to stand tip and claim your own, don't delay another day in eom mencinf to take Diseased GItIa Fracdoa at scot frea tbsacnyaf DdDdlsaase, Thetoothlnf waihefoUl, . trf D, D. D.it'i diffanaiL IM, sm , ' adtua, WfoarutMt!antluia ' C. Perry 'a. ' ,M" FRIDAY and Saturday W e are going to eliminate the high cost I of living and all profiteering. Here are a few of the many bargains on page 3. j PAILS, 50 cent Pails, one to a customer . ...... 29c fjSSJliSlfc. 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Gets bottle today and begin at onoe to fas! and ktok better. Sole Maoufs-ettarersi LYKO MEDICINE COMPANY ' aUtussaU substitutes. New York i KeesCity.Ms, For Sale by all Druggists. Always In SStock at Perry's Drug Store, SHIPLEY'S THE Pay as You Go Plan May 1st, 1920, the U. G. Shipley Co, Adopted the PAY AS YOU GO PLAN, "CASH ONLY" We advise all of our friends to be careful. Buy only what you need, and pay as you go until con ditions strike a level where commodities are on a conservative basis. This store will be alive to your wants and serve you with the same quality mer chandise at popular prices. Sincerely Yours U. G SMpiey Co. ITS A TREAT To eat, with or without butter, a slice of our light, white, pure. BAKE-RITE bread. Childrea and grown-ups both are fond eur bread; it's so soft and cm flavored, like rich cake. Try loaf and judge yourself. Bake-Rite Bakery 457 State St. Phone 2 People's Cash. Store? 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