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Love and Married Life By the Noted Author Idah McGlone Gibson John Is Uoimilng. "I'm afraid I'll have lo go now. John, are you coming with me?" "No, I'm going back to the of fice," he answered after a little hesilation. "I've lost so much time todav fussing over this housi i will ha ning." "Aren't dinner?" John waited a moment before he said: "I'm afraid I can't Kath arine. " And then perhaps seeing Something in my face which be tokened th)' I had an intuition of the state of affairs, he continuea: "I'm going to arrange my busi ness in the future, Katherine, so that 1 can out out all this staying away from home at meal time. I really' don't think it gels a man anywhere." "And I am sure that it does not, John, I said softly. He turned quickly and facing me squarely, he caught the after noon sun as it came through one of the stained glass windows over the fireplace. The golden light seemed to fairly dance on my Chi nese gold tea paper with which the workmen had finished cover Ing that side of the room. Like i kaleidoscope the blue and purple and green and red, splashed itself along the wall "Oh, I say, Katherine, Isn't that pretty?" exclaimed John as he looked across at the dancing col ors. "I'm really glad that you have put something bright on the walls. The gold makes a wonder ful background for th esunlight as It comes through that stained win dow. I like it ever so much bet ter than I did that old-fashioned Colonial paper which Elizabeth said she knew you would want on the walls. VVou . understand, don't you dear?" he said a little diffidently, "that I was only trying to hurry tip our getting Into the new house. And when Elizabeth suggested that It would be a fine thing to have it all dacorated for you when you returned, it seemed to me she was right. "What are you thinking about. Katherine?" asked John as l si lently watched the rainbow tints Of the setting sun upon the walls. "I was just wondering, John, why it is htat Elizabeth always has been able to make you acqui esce in ali her suggestions, while you have always treated mine with Indifference." I rather smiled at the surprise on John's face. 1 could see that it was a new thought with John Cordon that he had allowed any wooi in to influence him in any way. link you tiro draw tig, Katherine?" he I really don't think ?ver tried to int'lu- She said the other day imed too bad that we ? to wait so long after Harding, Reclamation and the Farmer I In his front porch homily Tuesday Senator Harding en dorsed the Roosevelt policies of conservation, advocated aid to reclamation in the west, and suggested that many former soldiers might be provided homes in the undeveloped west ern countiy. He asserted that peril to the nation would re suit unless there were greater development of agriculture. j Senator Harding served in the senate for six years and i , 1 1 1 i t, it ( 1 1 . 1 1 , tt r ,1 lu.l !, i I.,, . iwwil wnnlnmAtinn , ,'1 , 1 1 uiAoug nici, nine uiu uviimiy LU HJUCU l ci uiauuieii "i utvu'ijr ment of western lands. During his entire public career he j stood with the Old Guard consistently against the Roosevelt policies of conservation, which he now endorses as a presi dential candidate. During his term as senator, Harding neither introduced nor championed a single big constructive measure. He did however vote repeatedly for the vicious Shield's bill which sought to present the water power interests a monopoly in perpetuity of the undeveloped power resources of the nation. Secretary Lane of the Department of the Interior pre- I sented to congress in 1918 a comprehensive and carefully ! worked out plan for the settlement of returned soldiers on reclamation projects. Senator Harding did nothing for the bill, let it be killed, and did not raise his voice throughout his term in the senate for any plan to provide homes for returned j service men. - r H. : Warding urges as candidate, greater development ot agriculture. As senator he did all that lay in his power to making farming unprofitable. At every opportunity he op posed legislation beneficial to the farmer. He voted against 1 the Thomas bill, prohibitinb speculation in food-stuffs during the war, against the Kenyon amendment which limited the prices of what farmers had to buy as well as sell, and against j i fha Villi 1'ivinfr tlin nrieo n' wVina! nntito.irllnn tViQi- n flnllnr ti I . V. I, 111 llAlllfj 111V J1 It. ...I,.'1., 1 ' - 1 I ' V 1 . V 1 ' 1 I f . 111U1 UU1IW 11 bushel was sufficient for the producer and that farmers could get rich on it. Harding's attitude toward the farmer is best shown by the fight he made upon the farm loan bill. He denounced the measure giving the farmers the privilege of borrowing money from the government on long time, low interest pay ments as "utterly vicious" and "an unjustifiable use of the cash and credit of the United States government for a special class of private individuals," meaning the farmers. He de clared it "absolutely unnecessary and fraught with grim disaster" and he concluded by declaring "there is no more need for a measure of this kind for the agriculturists of Ohio than for the government to step in and take charge of all our industrial and productive affairs. How much of a friend a hopeless reactionary like Hard ing, would be for reclamation, the service men and the farmer, can best be judged by his record in the senate, the most pitiful in accomplishment and the most barren of achiev ment of all the members of the mediocre body of "statesmen" as deficient in initiative as it is devoid of vision. Gypsy Lad, 13, Marries - M9gm Cousin of Same 'Age Wl i . ' 11 1 . ' SLEEPY-TIME TALES V m turn rai "'! a h. "Don't ing it rati exposlula' that lies; en ee me. that It s would h you arriv orated. "I hadn't hut of cours tioned it. it 1 to have the house dee- thought of it before. as soon as she men seemed to me only it done be- hav thoughtfulness t foro you earns." "Oh, John, John, forgive me for smiling nt you. Can't you see that jSllzabeth, knowing you as she does, knew that she only had to make that remark to put the idea Into your head? She's a clever woman, my dear, and her methods are exactly the methods that one should use to influence you. I ex pect that she has learned them by growing up with you, John,, But wherever she lias learned them, she knows one thing and knows it thoroughly, arid that is that you, my dear husband, do not like di rect methods. You want to think that the whole Idea Is your own. All the women folk about you have learned this." "Except you," interrupted John with a smile "Yes, John, I have to he direct. It is the one thing, perhaps, that shows my egjtsm." John came toward me. "Yes. Katherine. you are slightly egotis tical, although 1 have never known you to own it. when it conies to matters of taste or culture and I guess I'll let you have your own way in them after this." "Oh, you needn't go as far as that. John. Just do not go ahead and do everything yourself, where I am concerned, without consult ing me. Iruiulre of me once in a while what I want, won't you? Like all other human beings. 1 really like to f.-el that T am a free agent and car. make a choice." "You bet I'll inquire, Girl, and I'll tell the world that It costs a man money to let some other wo man decide what his wife wants "Do 'you suppose the other mar will ever learn It, dear?" "I think he will, especially If it costs him as much to make the change as this room has cost inc." "It costs some men much more than that, my dear, and yet thay do not learn." TOMORROW "John Wants t,, Oiage." The Housing Problem The Journal of the American Institute of Architects prints a document from the executive committee of the Philadelphia chapter signed by John Irwin Bright, an arch itect of national renown, which has been submitted to the United States senate committee investigating housing condi tions, in which the architects admit that the housing ques tion has got beyond private capital and that government assistance in some form must be forthcoming in America as it has been in Europe, to solve the problem. Mr. Bright observes that the volume of the building in dustry is "subnormal and its characteristics are abnormal" for throughout the entire world it is impossible to build a home for those earning low wages or salaries at a cost which will allow it to be rented or sold without a loss. "In order to house decently the present population of the United States from ten to twenty billions of dollars will have to be ex pended. Private initiative for this purpose has entirely broken down." He summarizes as follows: The manufacture for profit of the skilled wage earner's home, never sufficient in quantity or quality, has now ceased. Tiie manufacture for profit of the unskilled wage earner's home has, largely speaking, never existed. In view of these facts we, the architects, propose that housing for those earning low wages or salaries be legalized as a public utility; that the manufacture of this class of homes as a profitable industry should cease in theory as it has already ceased in fact and that the government, national and local, should at once adopt measures making possible the supply of this prime necessary of life. It is daily becoming more apparent that unless sonte con struction program of federal, state and community co-oper ation is speedily forthcoming, the housing problem will be come a serious factor in public welfare, contributing inces santly to social unrest. W v 5 KBIiiBHslSii . . ?HH r lifi 4vYnRn i v nRnEm: - t; jr.- i nrnn,-ii mtr tt rr nrr MI.P ST ARTHUR SCOTT BAILER A Newcomer. Upon his arrival, as a stranger, in Pleasant Valley, Solomon Owl looked about carefully for a place to live. What he wanted especial ly was a good, dark hole, for he thought that sunshine was very dismal. 'I'l I O.. tt.iiu v.UMm,.- In liouHi. himself enough to suit anybody, when it came to hunting, Solomon Owl did not like to work. He was tease Solomon, or Reddy Wood pecker annoyed him by rapping on his door when he was asleep. xui iiiuse rowaies always took good care to skip out of Solomon's reach. And when Jasper Jay met Solomon alone in the woods at dawn or dusk he was most polite to the solemn old chap. Then it was "How-dy-do, Mr. Owl!" and "I hope you're well today!" And when Solomon Owl turned his great, round, black eyes on Jasper, that brtd fellow always felt quite uneasy; and he was glad when Solomon Owl looked away. If Solomon Owl chanced to hoot on those occasions, Jasper Jay would jump almost out of his bright blue coat. Then Solomon's deep laughter would echo mock ingly tnrougn the woods. You see, though not nearly so wise as he appeared, Solomon Owl knew well enough how to frighten some people. las nic... ' ai'unu th.Ml..nl", mrthfk "'ooklyn. "kins, .Ir . "HI "me on , 'LBWM ... , "'oi Mni " airi.lnn. Z" "-n him he f;: tn"r and hi. an all., ie torn, i l"er and ninth... "' " mi... . 'wet the, .The Pilot took mile nn i sister .m. V. ""'Hill my b rm 7" lu- tne ar shot th,n . r "Bluebeard 1 j money of who is'harjft ten wnmon ! fn,m will hcarge when h ,3 Half this araouMl "e remaining half hav rived from thes i 3 clothing belonging t0 What would your folks have said I who was one of the "ladies in at if at the age of thirteen you tendance " and who will also short - "promised to love, honor and i y obey?" Child welfare workers in New York were recently startled when thirteen-year-old John Cos tello married his cousin, Rosie Costello, the same age, at Tucka hoe, N. Y. The girl at the right is the youthful bride. John appears in the panel. On the left is Mary Costello another of John's cousins, join the matrimonial ranks, John's fathter had to pay Rosie's fatther $3,500 before the bride could leave the paternal care of her dad. The gypsies started feast ing and dancing at sunrise on the day ' of the weddding and con tinued these ceremonies for three days. "How-dy-do. (r. Owl! you're well today!" I hope The Irresponsible Senate Rippling Rhymes Song and Succota-h When I'm not toiling at my lyre, producing thrilling waves of sound, I'm busy as a house afire, in my small plot of garden ground. When I've turned out and anthem sweet, designed to soothe men's troubled souls, I spade the dirt around a beet, and teach my beans to grow on poles. A bard may chant an ode or two, may write, perchance, some soaring screeds, but to his duty he's untrue if he neglects to pull the weeds. For what this country needs just now, when every thing kerflummixed stands, is not the product of the brow it is the product of the hands. Too many bask on beds of ease, and write or sing or paint or play, when they should hoe the stringless peas and pluck the fragrant bale of hay. If I were young I'd soak my lyre, and quit this idle graft of song, and in the furrow I'd perspire, or whack up elm the whole day long. But I am old and full of lard, and when I've worked an hour or three, the neighbors lead me from the yard and fan me with a cedar tree. And so I toot the poet's horn, but when I've earned a sawbuck green, I strive to grow an ear of corn, a carrot or-a lima bean. (From the New York World.) "If then we are to have open, free and responsible government the senate must be reformed, and no time is more auspicious than the present to begin with that branch of its jurisdiction as to which the people are having such a striking object lesson. Let us take a first step in the direction of popular and efficient government and amend the constitutipn so that treaties shall be ratified by the house of representatives." The author of that eminently wise and practical suggestion is not a democrat but a very able and distinguished republican, Samuel W. McCall, whg served for twenty years in congress and was after ward for three years governor of Massachusetts. Writing for the September issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Mc Call describes the senate as "the glaring solecism of the time," and considers the method by which it has dealt with the treaty of peace as convincing proof that if the United States is to have responsible government it must begin with the reform of the senate, which is irre sponsible. Mr. McCall's conclusions do not differ essentially from those of John Hay, who was secretary 01 state in President Mc.Kinley's cabl net and who said of the senate's power to destroy treaties, "To such monstrous shape has the original mistake of our constitution grown in the evolution of our politics." The senate's veto over treaties was conferred upon it at a time when all diplomacy was secret and it was regarded as unwise to trust the house of representatives. The first important treaty negotiated by the United States government was not officially made public even aft er it had been ratified by the sen ate. The original reason for re quiring the advice and consent of the senate to treaties long ago lost its force. There is nothing what ever to sustain it at a time wnen the whole world is insisting upon open uispiomacy ana me nations have formally pledged themselves to have no secret treaties. In Great Britain the treaty-making power rests in the hrfuse of com mons; in France in the chamber ot deputies. There is no country ex cept the United States which per mits a non-representative body to determine its foreign relations, and the senate lis non-representative. The president is elected by the po pie every four years and is account able to them. The house of repre sentatives is elected by the people every two years and is accountable to them. The senate can never be held acocuntable, because only one third of its members can be brougni before the court of public opv-iur in any election. Thus the senate remains teonstinuously irresponsi ble. Yet this irresponsible bodv is permitted at its own pleasure to veto any or all of the president's appointments, and a minority can prevent the ratification of any trea ty, no matter how important, for afly reason that appeals to It. No other civilized country today would tolerate such an oligarchy, and the time has come, as Mr. McCall coun sels, to transfer some of the swol len powers of the senate to the house of representatives, which must receive a ne wmandate from the people every two years. Senator Harding, who belongs to the prevailing Senate oligarchy and was nominated for president by It, is urging a still further aggrandize ment of its authority and has de scribed all criticism of the senate as 'a' reflex of the mob mentality" It is natural that the republican can didate for president should be faith! ful to his poltical masters, but the reform of the senate is not a parti san question. It is an issue with which the American people will have to deal seriously if they ex pect to make their government func tion under the new conditions with which it must struggle. They can not begin better than by following Mr. McCall's advice and transfer ring to ihe house of representatives the treaty-making potVers that the senate has so scandalously abused for a generation. no busy nest-builder, like Rusty Wren. In his search for a house he looked several times at the home of old Mr. Crow. If it had suited him better, Solomon would not have hesitated to take if for his own. But in the end he de cided that it was altogether too light to please him. That was lucky for old Mr. Crow. And the black rascal knew it, too. He had noticed that Solo mon Owl was hanging about the neighborhood. And several times he caught Solomon examining his nest. But Mr. Crow did not have to worry long. For, as it happened, Solomon Owl at last found exactly what he wanted. In an old, hol low hemlock, he came across a cozy, dark cavity. As soon as he saw it he knew that it was the very thing! So he moved in at once. And except for the time that he spent in the meadow which was considerably later ha lived there for a good many years. Once Fatty Coon thought that he would drive Solomon out of his snug house and live in it himself. But he soon changed his mind af ter one attempt to oust Solomon. Solomon Owl so Fatty discov eredhad sharp, strong claws and a sharp strong beak as well, which curled over his face in a cruel hook. It was really a good thing for Solomon Owl the fight he had with Fatty Coon. For afterward his neighbors seldom troubled him except when Jasper Jay brought a crowd of his noisy friends to whbodieshei,! No LaborhoM r or i his M len ' " iuIK' The lib '' no iiroblcm at ml Biggest Steer Weighs 3,500 Clinton, Ont. "sir Douglas Ilaig., said to be the. biggest steer in the world, is drawing hundreds of livestock men from various parts of Canada to the farm of Ex-Reev. Charles Stewart ,in Ashfield town ship, Huron county, Ontario. The weight of Sir Douglas, a giant Shorthorn, is given as 3,500 pounds, wnicn livestock men say is tin m excess or the heaviest animal children ever shown at the International Li- esLocK ,-,now in unicago. Sir Doug-' JOURNAL WANT AM Paulson, who has his. from Copenhagen withhU 15 children to operate t LiimieHom. Me explained couiun t get the work I this force, he'd send total i serves two married ibii.i i..., mm in sons, aatMfl M RS, LUCY DOFCKTTK of Manchester X,. H., who says she's just so happy over the way Tanlae wstored her health she can't keep from teil ing ieople about it. , German Voters for Harding 8 Months' Grain For Armenians Paris, The Armenian republic now have sufficient grain supplies for eight months, according to a telegram to the United States Grain corporalon executives here from Colonel William N. II , skill allied high commissioner to Armenia, who has left that cmintry to come to Paris withh Is staff of American umy officers. The elegrnm says that the grain supplies will come largely from the harvest, there be ing a small amount remaining of 40,000 tons of flour sent fro mAm erica. . -V recognize,!, he declared. He discus sed the proposed initiative meas ure, to be voted upon at the Novem ber election, to amend the Califor nia alien land law. Not Ill-Will, Say Californians Sin Francisco. The attitude of C!J!brnia in opposition to the fur thet coming of Japanese to Ameri ca, Is not based upon III will or hos- tllit d Oregin T' incse as Japanese, but dy upon economic, so il. al grounds. John S. tale controller, declar n a ldrss before the i of San FraticiaeQ. Th Japan as a nation, and i-'nts of ihe Japanese "Marriage Shop Is Newest Idea Topeka, Kans. No chance to beat the "Jayhawkers." Among other things, this applies to matrimony. The ' very latest" in the way of a business venture here is a "mar riage shop." established by a local florist.. . Included in the "fixlns." is an aisle of palms for the bridal march and an altar of roses, before which may be taken the "I will " vows. Provision for an audience of K to hear the "lite sentence"' pro nounced also has been made. (From the New York World.) After making an "exhaustive .tnu comprehensive canvass," the .Even ing Sun finds cause for great grati fication because Senator Harding is the "overwhelming choice" of the foreign-born voters of the country, particularly the Germans. In marshalling evidence in sup port of their conclusion lv enes, various German dailies published here or in western cities as show ing "the general trend of the German-language newspapers through out the country toward the repub licans.'; -Aside from those that it mentions by name, it reports: "Not one prominent German daily stands behind Governor Cox in his drive for the presidency, and against him are added hundreds of German weekly and monthly per iodicals which are rapidly coming into the field again after being vir tually starved out In the war." As illustrating the viewpoint of the German voter, the Evening Sun for opposing the league of nations because elements of the foreign born population might be offended by the participation of the United States. Pledged as he is to the project of a separate peace with Germany. German voters have a right to look upon his hopefully as a pro-German candidate. Marine Gives 48 Years In Service i. -I i lJPJ lANTLEEIj M. m. vTiWr? a 11 It Can't Lck, Because It's Mail in One Piece A KANTLEEK is built likiil l bottle all in one ptet Most hot-water bottln n made in sections, then ctmoHj together. When cement drill and cracks, the bottle leaks. Every Kantleek Hot-W. Bag is moulded of pure rubber one continuous p No parts, patches, cement 6 stopper socket is mouiaea And guaranteed for a fill W years' service or a new s. leek free. riAn't- ivalt until your old l leaks. Get a Kantleek. Yom one may break open sl J. C. PERRY'S DRUG STORE Children Ailmente? Wichita, Kan. Back in 1872, on July 13, to be exact, William C. rtnwaite, then 18, enlisted ih the States marine corps. He United "I am just so happy over tho way Tanlac has restored mv health that I can't keep irom telling peo ple about it" sa,id Mrs. Lucy Dou cette of 76 Stark street Manches ter, New Hampshire, a few days ago. "I SUfferpd art lAn , v. , E??f i rines anA vic indigestion that I didn't know with the army. Now he is at ser- what . . . .,. , ow j.u . v .. , , i - iv oil uwhii ana pn mv w me locai army recruit-I a oi.!. ,ii . . ing service. hn,v L T' s'onvicn was so Just forty-eight years almost to ..... . i naa to live on a day, after his first enlistment h i HLr"-'""st niei. and nothing seem received a copy of his first enlist-1 agree wl,h me- At times my ment turners in the mai-int. t M. i breath seemed to be cut off and place a lost copy of his discharge, i 1 woulJ suffer terribly for hours DISORDERS of the stomach and constip mJ the most common diseases of children., correct them you will find nothing better Chamberlain's Tablets. One tablet at bed tune do the work and will make your child bnj cheerful the following morning. Do your children by riving them castor oiL Cl Iain's TMtit.. I , 1 nrm n1iK MWiU uc CUC1 UIU IUWV jSTI T7 lfTV3LIU- I which occurred shortly after he left j Australia Takes Suffrage Steps Portland Gives Wages to Swimmeri werp Olympic games the div- Perth. Australia. Among the gislatlve proposals to be suhmit d in the forthcoming session of oriUment f-.ere will be a bin fc movo rr disqualification agalnljt ouotes Julius Hols, general man ager of the Staats-Zeitung. which is j the service. "strongly republican'' in this cam paign, as follows: "It is impossible to speak or the German-American vote any longer. It is the Amerioan-Germtn vote. American is first with all Germans In this country. And we do not be lieve that the league, Mr. Wilson or itr. Cox are the best that can be obtained for America. And they are the worst that could be ob tained for Germany." Tse Evening Sun's comment that "the Germnas are unanioious in their belief that the league of na tions is a thing of great danger to the United States and to Europe ... - . - which, of course, includes Ger j n l IJUCKS tl Xrm many, r ui merniure, u anus, uov- ernor Cox's successful efforts to I have German as a language barred! Om the schools of Ohio have not 1 i at a time "I lost my strength completely and became so weak and rundown I would give out several times dur ing the day aim would hav- tn .tnn a, iI T . r iro, x was extreme v r en-mm a irritable .and just felt like I Portland. Or. Miss Thelma ! Jre:lK (lcmn completely. Payne, while competing at the Ant-! . "-'ne day f saw a statement Father has been P ducedW from a friend c mine Tho said her absence. en forgotten by the Germnas. Hyphenated Americanism figures rmineiitly in the republiian plan f campaign. Senator Harttmis atnly appealed to it in his front rrh mferh to the Wnyne enuntv Ing events will not lose her salary, lla'K nau neiped her wonderful as chief telephone operator for the I '5 - 30 1 ws convinced it was a city of Portland. Recently the city dependable medicine and I began council adopted a resolution author i taking it immediately, and I im Ihting payment to Miss Payne of t more than pleased at the snlendid ;." for ten weeks, the period - of I results. My appetite inirrrn..,i , right from the first ,and the hor- rana inaigestion from which I suffered so long has entirely dis appeared. "I have now rinished my fourt bottle .and can eat just r-nything I wish withoat .-.:.y ood after af fects. I ilso fUtn I I Iter nv,H The Rice Fields w liu-..;. cal. Permission to B bnmbat o frighten awav wild . . . . k . . l,a 1 .. , . .-.-! . . . .1.. . B-.u.. . uuvna ww rn uo, Kilt? SIBIC ai.'-:i,ii end .JlOrSV It is A fish and game commission by the pleasure to te.l he.-s what Tan B. F. Conway ranch ir'here. The lac has .lon - my eve." ducks, it is said, ire r , rice Tanlac is sold in Salem by Ty n the field. AoMtvmpt to .:'. drug store and by leading en (hem V. ; . d-urS!; in other towns. (sdr) r hrpflri DID1 ery. Our cus""" every v.-o ran . .i, came 3 10 L ", oua" poun" - -ity paramount Rake-Rite Bakery 457 State LADD & BUSH Bankers Established 1868 General Banking Businf Office Hours from 10 a. m Ao3p- 2