Saturday, November 20, 1920
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
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rthe preface?" he suggested gaily. tlon attended.
Speaking of the refusal of prominent men to serve on the I You know.'. she warned him
state highway commission, the Portland Journal asks
Why do not men of big calibre and approved character accept
greater responsibilities In public affairs? Every man owes something in
the way of service to the community. This is particularly true of men
whose 'success in material acquirements proves their capacity and
whose reputation is a guarantee of their integrity.
Prominent men hesitate to serve the public because of
the public's ingratitude. No matter how conscientious and
papable the service, it is usually rewarded by captious sneers,
malicious libels, intimations of graft and unsupported accusa
tions of crookedness on the part of disappointed self-seekers.
The war furnished a shining example of the rewards be-
By mail, in Marion and Pik stowed unon those who hastened to sacrifice their time, en-
anunties. 50 cents a monin. iw- ----.- .... ... , ,
where 7 a year, $3.bo for 6 montus yergy and money m patriotic enort to neip America win.
hold more nuts.
"I should think you
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Cupper were . them," the old scamp
that I have not yet made up mylsmong those to attend the football
game in imttm luuav.
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Loganberry
Laughs
By Robert Qulllen,
Money isn't really tight, but
just quietly jingled.
Another little trouble with
the world is the long time be
tween, thinks.
The cellar's lack of coal
wouldn't be so distressing if
the seller had any.
"How did America handle
Vi n Mpvi-an Situation?" de
mands an irate Australian.
Gently, Brother, gently.
The profiteers may be get
ting what is coming to them,
but they are not getting it in
such large chunks.
An investigator demands the
bare facts concerning the
clothing business. If the pric
es had kept on climbing the
bare facts would have been
with us.
A little more of this baclc-to-the-farm
movement and
there will be no front-toTthe-lunch-counter
movement.
The amusing thing about
deflation is the contention of
hoarders that government
should provide a spare tire.
Adam was naked and got
his dinner from the trees. Per
haps that is the sort of Para
dise 1-enine has in mind.
If unrest explains the re
publican landslide, a few states
in Dixie were fortunate in es
caping war's reaction.
There is one gleam of light
in the darkness. Peddlers of
oil stock haven't appealed to
the government for aid.
The building trust seems to
have overlooked the possibili
ties of graft in the erection of
mansions in.the skies.
Though these efforts were in the main most successful, and
the result justified the means, the reward has been an unin
terrupted torrent of abuse and scandal.
It is true that every man does owe something in the way
of service to the community, but so long as the principal
service rendered by a large element of the community is un
merited abuse of those rendering such service, just so long
will there be hesitancy on the part of those called upon the
make personal sacrifice for public good, in accepting such
responsibility.
As far as the highway commission is concerned, the
organization is upon the wrong basis
anyone to render the service demanded without remuner
ation. If the commission, spending tens of millions of money,
is of any value to the state, and it undoubtedly is, the
services should be paid for. As it is, only the very wealthy
can afford to take the thankless job, the capable man of
moderate means being barred. Wealth is not necessarily
valuable in direction of highway work. Other qualifications
besides the acquisitive instinct are essential.
The legislature should provide a paid highway commission
and make the salaries sufficient to be an incentive to secure
men of broad vision and proven capacity who will devote all
of their time to the work and not expect retired millionaires
to work for A cussing.
mind about you."
"Oh. Concerning what are you
in doubt?"
"Concerning exactly how 1
ought to consider you."
"As a friend, please."
"Perhaps. Are we going to
dance or talk?"
After they had been dancing
for a few moments:
"So you are a crew man?"
"Who told you?"
"I've inquired about you," she
admitted, glancing sideways at the ) time with friends,
tall, spare, graceful fellow with i
his almost golden colouring. "t
have questioned various people.
They told me things."
"Did they give me a black eye?"
he asked, laughingly.
"No. But somebody gave you
a pair of golden ones. . . Like
two sun-spots on ,i brown brook.
You've a golden look; do you
know it?"
"Red-headed men turn that way
when they're in the sun and wind"
ne explained, ,sini laugnmg, yet y
nlalnlv fascinated bv the maua.nl
breezy Informality of this voun:: i
Mr. and Mrs. Mark McCalister
and children left this morning for
Corvallte to attend the football
game. Mrs. McCalister and the
children will remain in Corvallis
to spend next week with her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. McCalister will
return Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Chambers mo
tored over to Corvallis for the foot
ball game today and to pass the
Miss Nell Sykes is attending the
football game at Corvallis today.
Mr. and Mrs. David Wright mo
tored over to Corvallis today for
the football game.
A Discarder of Formula
Vihljalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, who lectured
in Salem Friday evening has won success through the appli
cation of common sense and the disregard of precedent, and
the exercise of his own ingenuity. He has convincingly
demonstrated that Arctic explorers, although men of ability
and science, overlooked obvious conditions and ignored
patent facts and hence needlessly wasted mucfc time and
money, suffered hardship unnecessarily and accomplished
comparatively little as the result of their efforts.
The explorer calls attention to the fact that the school
geographies are a mass of misinformation when it comes to
describing the Arctic regions. The climate and physical ap
perance of all but the coast and mountain ranges, is rolling
prairie similar to that of the Dakotas, cold in winter and hot
in summer, with the cold not as intense as in Montana, and
the summers shortening with the distance north, and with
Jess precipitation. The vegetation is composed of grasses, and
not mosses and lichens, and furnishes abundant pasture for
thousands of large herds of caribou, reindeer and musk-ox.
Another pet explorer's theory he demolishes is the one
that big food and fuel reserves are essential, because of the
lack of animal life and vegetation in the polar seas. He spent
years living on the country, made it support his party with
seals and bears as he traveled, the seals furnishing fuel as
well as tood. Instead of packing tents, he built snow houses,
-like the Eskimos, although many explorers had declared no
one but an Eskimo could construct one, and he lived in com
fort and plenty on the drifting ice and islands of the Polar
sea.
Mr. Stefansson also smashed the dietetists pet theory
that a variable diet is essential for human health and that
meat alone is harmful. 'His party lived for years exclusively
on seal and bear, in perfect health and enjoyed immunity
from disease of all kinds.
While crossing the frozen Polar sea, the explorer did not
follow the example of other explorers when he came to a
channel of open water between the ice cakes, and wait for
the wind to close the channel or the weather to freeze it
over, but converted his sleigh into a boat, by the use of a
tarpaulin, and paddled across.
It all sounds so simple and easy that one wonders why no
one ever tried it before, not even the Eskimos, who have
spent their life amid such surroundings but most of the
great discoveries prove equally simple when analyzed.
Humanity is so accustomed to worshiping formula that fpw
ruse their brains, and those that do attain fame.
girl. "Tell me, do you still go to
It IS not right to ask school, Miss Quest?"
tiow insulting: . , . les:
it was mean of you to ask."
"Good Lord! You didn't ex
pect me to think you the mother
of a family, did you?"
That mollified her.
"Where do you go to school?
he continued.
"Miss Montfort's. I finish this
week."
"And then?"
"To college, I'm , afraid."
"Don't you want to?"
"I'd rather go to a dramatic
school."
"Is that you inclination, Miss
Quest?"
"I'd adore it! But dad does
not."
"Too bad."
"I don't know. I'm quite hap
py, anywny. I'm having a won
derful time, whatever I'm doing."
"Then it isnt an imperious call
from Heaven to leave all and
elevate the drama?" he asked,
with a pretense of anxiety that
m,ide her laugh.
"You are dlsrepectful. I'm sure
I could elevate the drama if I had
the chance. But I sha'n't get it.
However, next to the stage
I adore to paint," she ex
plained. "There is a class. I
have attended it for two years. I
paint rather nicely."
SLEEPY-TIMEOTALES
THEREOF
might get
grumbled.
'I've a lame knee, you know."
"But I said a 'handful' not a
'kneeful,' " Sandy answered. "Of
course, if you don't want this Juicy
ear or corn, there are others that
would like it." He started to
pick the ear of corn 'off the table
when Uncle Sammy rose julckly.
"All right!" he cried. "But it's
the old-fashioned way; and I don't
like it." Then he gave Sandy Ka
small handful of beechnuts.
Sandy Chipmunk ate right on
the spot. And he began to feel
very happy. He had noticed that
Unele Sammy towed the ear of
corn Inta a basket which stood
beneath the table. And the bas
ket was full of corn. Sandy could
reach it just as easily from the
front of the table tin Uncle Sammy
could from behind It.
And Sandy Chipmunk had
thought all at once of a way to
get a good many nuts away from
Uncle Sammy, to pay for all the
wheat Uncle Sfcimmy had eaten.
ft.
The bewilderment of the
premiers may oe aue 10 me
fact that there is nothing left
to grab.
Perhaps England could flood
could flood Ireland with hand
some young lords and get the
little island married into the
family.
You can say one thing for
the banks. Falling prices
haven't set them to whining
that they are operating at a
loss.
An English visitor declares
there is no clear articulation
in America. Did the gentle
man ever hear our money
talk?
A name means nothing. The
Virgin Islands sound innocent
but travelers report that the
natives put the accent on the
gin.
Just Folks
By
Edgar A. Guest
After all. things are usually
adjusted fairly. The republi
cans have their round robin
and the democrats their
square meal of crow.
A correspondent wishes to
know the difference between j
a league and a mile. Well, a
mile is lineal measure and the
league a political measure.
Tbe ljiughluK Boy. You still laugh when we must
Just laughing all the lime it seems siirh.
Through the oViy and in J our j When you're eight years old, I
III .'.Mis,
Everything you hear or see
Somehow fills you full o' glee;
ad your old dad wuthin' by,
Wlm has often had to sigh.
Can't help softly chucklin' too
Since the world's so gay to you.
When a boy Is eight years old,
Winter's not so very cold;
Time was. Oh. so long agro,
I was glad to see the snow;
Dull the day or bright the sun,
I could alwnys have my fun.
And full many a youthful day
.lust like you, I laughed away.
Nothing seems to fret you much,
Light today is trouble's touch.
Rain or shine, It's all the same,
You can always have a gkime;
Sorrows lightly pass you by,
guess,
Everything spells happiness.
Watchin' you, so full o' fun
And forever on the run,
Your old dad who's come to care
And the burdens he must bear.
Can't help wishin' that the years
ill be slow to bring you teytrs.
And he prays that all the while
"'u will Keep your merry smile.
Keep the twinkle in your eyes
Even when you're wordly wise
Keep the love of all things good
K.ven under sorrow's hood.
Grow to manhood as you must.
But in men retain your trust, '
And though burdens on you pile
Strive somehow tp keep youi
smile.
The Restless Sex
By Robert Chamb ' s. Author of "Barbarians,"
etc. (Copyrighted IMS by Robert W.
"The Dark
Chambers)
Star.'
But there whs
in his carelessly
rter, in his gase.
in his bearing,
attractive rnan
a lurking hint
of Irresponsibility, perhaps of
mischief, which did not. however.
mpreas her disagreeably.
(:i tbe contrary, she teTt oddly
it ease with bin. as though she
hatd known him for some time.
Have you forgiven me for
staring at you so many years ago"
1- inquired, smilingly.
She thought thnt she Had.
He was still looking at her intent
Iy. curiously, with the same slight
ly deferential smile which she
now vividly Iremembered in the
boy.
"Do you. by any chance, feel
the same about our encounter?"
he asked.
"What way?"
That way?"
"That we seem to have known
leach other for a long time?"
Stephanie had not yet learned
But his ne words startled her very much in the art of self-de-litile;
he audi, still smiling In fense. A question to her still
: careless and attractive way: meant either a truthful answer or
I hnve a queer Idea th..t we'rej.j silence. She remained silent.
rjrinning in the middle of everv-1 "Do you. Miss Quest?" he per-
ting that we ve already know n j sisted. 1
teh other long enough to waive: "Yes, I do."
rtUminarte and begin our "As though." he Insisted, "yd I
iquaintance as old friends ." j and I are beginning in the middle!
He was saying almost ejictly,of the book of friendship instead;
hat she had net put Into word. of bothering to cut the pages of
Society
' (Continued on Page Eight.) .
Mrs. Chester Dorans entertain
ed for her small daughter. Flavia,
Thursday afternoon to celebrate
Miss Down's third birthday anni
versary. At the tea hour refresh
ments including a pink and wrhite
birthday caKe wun inree sman
candles were served.
The matrons and their children
whom were bidden were jfars.
Prince Byrd. and Betty, Mrs. It.
F. Dillen and Dorothy 'Mrs. Shy
mond Walsh and Priscilla, Mrs.
Fred H. Thompson and David, Mrs.
J. H. Arbuckle and Dorris, Mrs, J.
Nicholson and Jimmy.
Because of the many activities
around Thanksgiving the War
Mothers bazaar which was plann
ed for Saturday, November 27, has
been postponed until sometime ear
ly in December.
Rev. and Mrs. Horace N. Aklrich
gave a reception in the auditorium
of Leslie Methodist church honor
ing Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Gilbert, the
former being district superinten
dent of the Methodist churches.
Rev. and Mrs. Aldrich and Rev.
and Mrs. Gilbert were in the receiv
ing line and a group of matrons of
the congregation assisted about the
room. Potted ferns and rosebud
were used to decorate the auditor
ium and gilded hanging baskets
were filled with rose buds and
fern to add to the rooms.
ijuiuig uie nours a program s
given consisting of a vocal duet by
Mis Sadie Pratt and Floyd Mcln
tire. a vocal solo by Miss Gertrude
Aldrich. a reading by Mrs. Julia
Street, a piano solo by Miss Lois
Nye a piano solo by Frank San
ders and a xylophone solo by Les
lie springer.
Following the program the
guests adjourned to the dining
room downstairs in the church
building where a social hour and
refreshments were enjoyed. Down
stairs, chrysanthemums in the au
tumn shades were used. Several
hundred guests including the mem
hers of Leslie Methodist conei ega-1
CHIPMUNK
MR SCOTf BAILEY i
Uncle Sammy's Store
Not long after Uncle Sammy
Coon ate half of Sandy Chip
munk's wheat without paying for
it he seemed to grow lamer than
ever. And he walked less than
ever, too. A good many of the
forest-folk said that he really was
not any lamer but he was -lazier.
However that may have been,
he began to stay at home a good
deal of the time. And finrilly
Sandy Chipmdnk heard that Uncle
Sammy had opened a store, in
which he kept all sorts of good
things to eat.
When Sandy learned that he
lost no time in going over to Unlle
Sammy's house near the swamp.
Sure enough! There he found
Unlle Simmy sitting behind a loUjg
table. And behind him were
shelves loaded with apples, pears,
corn, nuts and many other kinds
of food.
"I'd like to buy (some nuts,"
Sandy Chipmunk told the old
gentleman.
"Nuts?" said Uncle Sammy. "I
have some fine nuts."
"Let me see a sample,' Sandy
said. But Uncle Simmy never stir
red. "There they are, right on the
shelf!" he said. "Look at them
all you want to."
'I'll eat one and see how I like
it, said Sandy Chipmunk.
But Uncle Sammy shook his
head.
"No!" he replied. "That's the
old-fashioned way of keeping e
store. I don't give away any
samples."
When Sandy heard that he was
angrier than ever. And he wish
ed he had never given Uncle Sam
tmy any rumples of his wheat.
But he knew there was no use of
appearing angry. So he smiled
and asked:
"What is the price of your
heechnuts?"
"For one handful, you will have
to pay me an ear of corn," Uncle
Sammy said.
"I'll take a handful said Sandy
Still the old fellow never stir
red. "Where's your ear of corn?" he
inquired.
"Oh! I'll give you that the i.cxt
time I pass this way." said Sandy.
And he made up his mind that he
would take good care to keep away
from Uncle Sammy's house.
But Uncle Sammy Coon was
too sharp.
"That won't do at all," he said
"I must have the corn before I
give you the nuts."
So Sandy Chipmunk stepped to
the door.
"Ill come back soon," he said.
And he ran all the way to Farmer
Green's cornfield, to get an ear
of green corn. And then he ran
oil the way back to Uncle Sammy's
house.
"There!" Sandy said. "There's
your ear of corn!" He laid it
upon the table. "Now give me a
handful of beechnuts.'
"Step right in and help your
self," Uncle Sammy answered.
'No!" said Sandy. "You give
me the nuts." He knew that
Uncle Sammy's hands were much
bigger tlvtn his own and would
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