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Loganberry
Laughs
By Robert Qulllen
If we must have wars, let's adopt
the pay-as-you-enter plan.
Belncr broke wouldn't be so bad
if it wasn't so Inconvenient.
A cvnic is a man who thinks
kissing no more than germ swap
ping.
A woman never really enjoys
pain unless she can tell somebody
about it.
A real friend will forgive you
anvthinir except making more
money than he makes.
Plucked evebrows indica'o the
probable existence of a vacuum
juat behind them.
Insects have their heroes. When
a fly alights on a bald head and
goes over the top he frequently
makes a Hplash in society.
A great many $76-a-month
elerks talk on the telephone In a
$10,u00-a-yeur tone of voice.
The world might possibly sur
vive another war, but It couldn't
survive another peace conference.
The pouches under Mr. Hard
ing's eye.s indicate that he probab
ly won't have a Cabinet under his
thuml).
The original remarks made by
very clever people seldom impress
hearers who have read the same
books.
After a man fails at writing life
insurance and selling automobiles,
he usually goes to the legislature.
History tells us almost every
thing except what people did with
bad cold before handkerchiefs
were Invented.
Shovelling snow would be Just
as much fun as playing golf ii
it wasn't necessary.
The destiny or America is in the
hands of lod and people who e.tt
In the kitchen except when there
is company.
A few men have died of too
much thinking, but there is no
roaaun to suspect that the malady
will ever become epidemic.
The Phone Increases
Action of the Oregon hotelmen's association in demanding
a rehearing of the telephone case by the Public Service Com
mission to secure a reduction of increases ordered and the
determination to tender payment at thcold rates and to fight
through the courts any attempt of the company to cut off
service until final settlement is made, shows how widespread
is the public revolt over the increased rates.
As for the hotelmen themselves there is scant sympathy,
for they pass on the telephone tolls to their guests. Every
phone call originating at the hotel is paid for by the guests
and the assertion that the hotels are forced to do the com
pany's business at their own expense can be taken with a
grain of salt.
The Capital Journal believes that the Public Service Com
mission made a mistake in granting the blanket increases
and nearly everyone else save the commission itself and the
telephone company hold the same view. The increase entails
an undue burden on the people at a time they can least afford
it, while at no time in its history has the American Telephone
& Telegraph company, the owners of the company operating
in Oregon, been more prosperous. Quoting from its annual
report we read :
The company, in 1920, after meeting all operating charges and!
making adequate provision for depreciation and obsolescence, and for
federal taxes payable in 1921, had available for interest and dividends
170,086,904. Interest charges were $18,865,688, an increase of
$:i,018,092 over similar charges for 1919, while dividends paid to
stockholders at the usual rate of $8 per share per year amounted to
$35,376,792. Of the resulting balance there was appropriated for
contingencies $8,000,000, and the remainder, $8,444,422, was carried
to the surplus account. The company and its predecessor have paid
dlvidtnds at the rate of at least $7.50 per share each year ifor the
past 39 years; during the past 14 years, the rate has been uniformly
$8 per share. The surplus and reserves of over $444,000,000.
or more than 27 per cent of the total assets, have been invested in
productive property, und on this amount it Is not necessary to pay
capital charges.
The telephone company is a monopoly that scientifically
mulcts the public through its various subsidiaries. Although
HC r Y-TJLMJE, TALES
THE tale of
-tOMMY FOX
ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
fc. . -A- L1M
Tommy Chases Mr. Woodehuck my dug -into the ground the more
" a .. iniA nvnltorl ho Crrtiiir A .1 1.,. k. 1
ivmimv Fox went up miu
Farmer Green's back pasture,
which lav even nearer Blue
Mountain than the field where
Tommy and his mother lived. He
skulled along among the rocky
hummocks, and the old stumps
which dotted the pasture thickly.
His ears his eyes and his nose
were all alert to discover any
small animal that might he stir
ring especially his nose; for
excited he grew. And he had
just decided that he had almost
reached the end of the tunnel,
and that a little more digging
would bring him inside of Mr.
Woodchuck's house, when he met
with an unexpected check.
To Tommy's dismay, Mr.
Woodchuck's tunnel led between
two roots of the big oak, and
Tommy could not squezze be
tween them. He reached his
EUGENE O'BRIEN in "WORLD'S APART"
Coming to the Oregon Theatre next Thursday for 3 days.
Tommy could smell things when! paws though the narrow opening
they were a long way off. land crowded his nose in as far
Tommy's mother had explained 'as it would go. But that was all
to him that he must always he could do. He did not doubt
hunt with the wind blowing in that somewhere in beyond, in
his face; because then the breeze the darkness, Mr. Woodehuck
brought to him the scent of any , was having a goou mugn uecause
. !,,! that miht be in Tommy had done all that work
front of him. whether it hap-I for nothing.
pened to be an animal that Tom- I
The Restless Sex
By Robert Chambers, Author of "Barbarians," The Dark Star," etc.
(Copyrighted 1918 by Robert W. Chambers.)
But first he showed his suit
case, with his foot, over the plat-
.,.i,. i,.,..,,i u -Arnnr. form's edge, as though iv had
Steve a living, quivering thing,
j And I saw him slay it before my
eyes kill it there between his,
with his steady, pleasant smile.
and
wind
telephone service, there has never been a reduction in tolls tora,len there by accident. . . ... well, he meant me to understand
il riv, u ,. iv, i a; j i muusii ii mm ana wnat tie nao uone. . . .
Ml' jiuilili . Wll LUC liMll.lcli V, lllXty IldVC CU1IL11IUCU IU JI1L.1CC10C
with the volume of business and the company pockets the
profits. The subsidiary companies shout calamity and con
stantly clamor for increased tolls while the parent concern
brags of its extraordinary profits.
And, as though he had followed
to recover it, he climbed down
among the tracks.
There was a third rail running
parallel to the twin rails. It Was
roofed with wood. Lying flat
!.,.,-., in tha nkimmcrinir dusk, lie
The public service commission was created to protect thej ld , k n uouer tue wooden
people from the rapacity of public service corporations who!gUard rail and see it.
are entitled only to a fair return for service rendered. But! Then, resting both legs across
the cost plus system has made it the bulwark of this corpor
ation, which by skillful juggling and manipulating state
Ugainst state, continues to pile up hundreds of millions of
surplus for the parent concern and yet apparently never
meets expenses for subsidiaries. All of which raises the
ssue of whether a national monopoly like the telephone
should not be regulated nationally instead of by states.
And I understand And I
understand your loyalty, now. And wjmi ai ns back
That (ierman musician who Fays
America has produced no great
music has never heard the crack
of a bat against u fast one.
A mere man always seems of
least importance when there le a
new baby In the house and when
pring house cleaning begins.
"Spring reveals new deals,, In
ladies hats," says an advertise
ment. But it reveals the same old
atyle in knee caps.
A republic Is a form of govern,
ment under which the people know
as much about their business as
Officials think they should know.
The reason the children behave
that way when there is company Is
because they sen their pirouts act
ing that way when there is no company.
Works Both Ways
It is a poor rule that doesn't work both ways. Repudiation
of long time contracts by growers when prices began to soar,
which nearly wrecked two of the basic industries of Salem,
have been sustained by the supreme court in time to benefit
the industries in question, leaving them free of contracts
at a time of falling markets.
The growers who benefitted temporarily by repudiation
now find themselves without an assured market at a time
they need one most, so that in the long run it will probably
be demonstrated that repudiation does not pay.
It worked a real hardship on processors who had con
tracted produce at a fixed basis to have the contracts treated
as scraps of paper in a boom market. It now works a real
hardship on the grower to have the repudiation sustained
on a collapsed market.
To have an assured market at a certain figure over a
term of years is better business for both grower and manu
facturer than an open market, for it stabilizes the business
of both. And after all, it is the law of averages that gov
erns successful business, not spasmodic get-rich-quick profits.
The growers' interests and manufacturers' interests are
really identical and the prosperity of the one hinges on the
prosperity of the other and when each recognizes this essen
tial and harmony replaces discord, both will be upon a more
substantial basis.
the steel car-tracks, he reached
out and took the guarded third
rail in both hands. -
Woman Golf Champ
of United States
Sails for Europe
"Perfect "Husband
And Wife Disagree;
Each Seeks Divorce
Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 22.
Cupid has failed with the Suter
mcisters. Herman Butertnelster, the "per
fect husband," and Mrs. Letah
Sutermeister, the "model wife,"
have separated permanently fol
lowing a financial settlement af
ter all of Cupid's wiles failed to
win them matrimonial bliss, ac
cording to announcement made
hero by attorneys.
The Sutermeisters, who at
tracted attention iu May, 1916, by
The "articles" provided that
Sutermeister would not "smoke,
drink, swear or chew." He was
allowed, under the agreement, to
say "Oh, Gracious," once in a
while it properly perturbed.
He also promised not to "carry
mud Into the house." He was not
to look a this wife for more than
thirty minutes at a time unless
she gave hi in special permission.
The "model wife" promised to
give her husband one smile for
every ten she bestdwed upon hu
their articles of specifications of! inanity. The "articles of specifi
matrimonial felicitation." tried i cations' did not work. Property better.'
lor six years to tind happiness. ' owned by Sutermeister and val
Chapter XXXV
The train that Cleland took,
after calling Runner's est on the
telephone, landed him at the
home station at an impossible
hour. Stars filled the heavens
with a magnifcent lustre; the
the July darkness was superb and
stll untouched by the comng
dawn.
As he stepped from the car the
tumblng roar of the river filled
his ears that and the high pines'
slghng under the stars, and the
sweet-scented night wind in his
face greeted and met him as he
set foot on the platform at Run
ner's Rest station and looked
around for the conveyance that
he had asked Stephanie to send.
There was nobody In sight ex
cpt the baggage agent. He walk
ed toward the rear of the station,
turned the corner, and saw Steph
in the starlight, wrapped in a red j
cloak, her hair in two heavy
anie standing there bareheaded
braids.
"Steve!" he exlalmed. "Why
on earth did you come you dar
ling!" "Did you imagine I wouldn't?"
she asked unsteadily.
"I told you over the wire to
send Williams with a buckboard."
"Everybody was In bed when
the telephone rang. So I con
cluded to sit up for you, and
when the time came I went out
to the stable, harnessed up, and
drove over here."
Her hand was trembling in his
while she spoke, but her voice
was under control.
They turned together and went
over to the buckboard. She step
ped in: he strapped his suitcase
on behind, then followed her and
took the reins from her gloved
hands.
They were very quiet, but he
could feel her tremble a little at
times, when their shoulders were
in contact. The tension betray
ed Itself in his voice at moments,
too.
"I have a night letter from
Oswald," she said. "They tele
phoned it up from the station.
He Is coming tomorrow morning".
"That's tine. He's a splendid
fellow, Steve."
"I have always known it."
"I know you have. I'm terrib
ly sorry that I did not know him
the dreadful fear which kept you
silent. . . . But there is no need
to be afraid any more"
"Did he say so?"
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my was hunting, or some animal
that was hunting him. In that
way Tommy would be able to
know what was ahead of him,
even if he couldn't see (t.
But if he were careless
trotted along with the
blowing behind him ah!
was auite different. The
forest-people would all know he
was coming, for then they would
be able to get Tommy's scent.
And some day, if he were so
foolish as to go about with the
some day ha
I am sorry to say that Tommy
Fox lost his temper. He called
after Mr. Woodehuck. Yes he
shnntpd some rather bad names
nfter him. But of course that
didn't do a bit of good. And
Tommy Fox put on his coat and
went home to think about what
id do. He dtdn t care to
mat . , .
..i... ut his mother's advice, because
otner - . , .
he didn t want ner to Know mat
Mr Woodehuck had got away
from him. But he hoped to find
some wav 111 which he could
catch the old gentleman.
To the Editor: I would like to
"unload" a few timely thoughts,
via your Open Forum concerning
our new president. To begin with,
I've noticed that he has started in
"serving this country" by asking
assistance in alleviating the stress
caused by a famine in China.
I'm not an agitator nor do I be
long to any organiaztion either
might stumble right onto a wild
cat, or a dog, or a man, or some
other terrible creature.
Well Tommy remembered all
these things that his mother had
told him. The wind fresh In his
face. And to his delight all at
once he smelled a woodehuck.
There was no mistaking that
savoury smell. It affected Tom
my very pleasantly much as you
are affected by catching a whiff
of hot peanuts, or pop-corn, or
candy cooking on the stove.
Tommy stole along very care
fully. And as he peered around
a stump he saw, not ten Jumps
ahead of him, a fine, fat wood
chuck. Tommy crept up a little
closer; and then he sprang for
Mr. Woodehuck with a rush.
Tommy just in time. He turned
Tommy jhst in time. He turned
tail and ran for his life; and he
was so spry, though he was
Tommy Gibbons of St.. Paul
brother of Mike, and an aspirant
to the heavyweight champiouship
will meet Paul Sampson ef Ne
York in a 15-round bout tonight
in Gotham.
CLEAR VISION
BRINGS THE
PROPER.
Rewards
directly or indirectly accused of! quite a fat. elderly gentleman
agitating, but does it not seem to
you that the place to start is right
here in the United States? There
are plenty of poor people right
here iu our own country who are
on the brink of starvation a.-d
who (I think) should be the re
cipients of any sort of generosity,
philanthropy or anything you
care to call it.
China never did anything for
us nor did any of Its subjects,
unless it was to help the traffic in
drugs, thereby necessitating the
organizing of what I think are
called "Drug Squads" of city po
licemen. Any red blooded American v.' ill
stoop to help his brother before he
will help another. If he does not
iie s not wormy ot the name
"American."
There are thousands of locali
ties in the United States where
t ho honorable president could
start right iu doing his s;ood
work. The good old Red Cross. I
am sure, will furnish him with a
list that would take up quite a bit
ot his time attending to and see
ing that the families were cared
for properly.
Our president may be a won
derful man, a good man and a
man who has handled large propo
sitions, but he would make more
of a "hit" with me if he would
adhere to that old proverb "Char
ity begins at home."
RUSS F. FIELDER.
Box 76, Rt. 6, Salem, Oregon.
that he reached his hole and
whisked down out ot si ,ht fist
as Tommy was abou: to seize htm,
Tommy was dlup90t.iid. But
he was determined to get tnat
woodehuck, and he began to dig
away at Mr. Woodchuck's hole.
You see, Mr. Woodehuck was
smaller than Tommy Fox, and
since the underground tunnel
that led to his home was only
big enough to admit him. Tom
my was obliged to make it larger.
Though Mr. Woodchuck's hole
was under a shady oak tree, Toi-
my found digging to be some
what warm work, so he took off
his neat, red coat and hung it
carefully upon a bush.
He worked very hard, for ne
was eager to find Mr. Wood
chuck. In fact, the further Tom
CLEAE sightedness helps
men attain. Victory can
not he won in any of life's
battles unless w see clear
ly the difficulties that beset
our path. Let us make for
your eyes the glasses that
will give you the proper
range of vision and relieve
your eyestrain. Attend to
this at once.
il Many a Pretty Face
Spoiled by Pimples
but failed, according to the attor-1 ued at $100,000 Is Involved in j the station road into a fragrant series of exhibition games.
settlement of the suit
Short Sports
H Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta,
for three consecutive years woman
s;olf champion of the United States
photographed as she sailed for
Europe from New York. Miss
Stirling is cuing abroad to seek
uew honors. She will compete in
both the Itritish and French
women's title tournaments. This
is Miss Stirling's first trip.
One suspects that a great many
eople subscribe for the Dearborn
J& D ; ,lent ttl the tfnrt In fin.1
V;tnih;iig to sue Ford about.
Joe Lynch. New York, bantam
weight champion, and Voting
Piuchot Charleroi will meet In i
ten round bout at Pittsburgh.
March 28.
Hans Wagner, the new athletic
director at Carnegie Tech, Pitts
burgh, had his baseball squad on
the field yesterday. He will turn
out the best team the institution
has ever known, he declares.
Walter Mails, heavy dutr
motindsman for the Cleveland In
dians, is temporarily out of the
game at the training ramp at Dai
las, with a sore arm. Manager
Speaker reports the remainder of
his chamiponship agiTegu'.ion
first class condition.
Walter Schmidt, star cutcher -f
the Pittsburgh Nat'onals. who
has been unaccounted for smce
the opening of the training sea
son, has reported at th Pirate
camp at Hot Springs. He was de
talned by business on the Paclllr
coast.
Rocky Kansas was givea tha de
cision over Willie Jarksoi, ih :j
.ounds last night in New York.
Slicker Parks, star University of
Michigan pitcher, has admitted
playing professional baseball tnd
resigned the captaincy of the
Michigan team yesterday.
slumber In the thicket, sang a
few sweet, sleepy notes.
"Tell me," said Stephanie, in
a low, tremulous voice.
He understood:
registered in a game between Ual, n.vr dreanled of m,nt,oning lt
nun uir rsSJSBi IM" ( , njm
iormcr won, 14 to 7. Birnhait
Plans are under way for a b
regatta on Chesapeake bay next
July under the auspices of tn
Baltimore Export & Import Board
of Trade.
me Chicago Cubs complete
their training today and leave
Pasadena for Los Angeles, wher-;
they will rest, between play in a
Mnn-
wood-road. In the scented dusk ager Evers reports his men in top
little night motbs with glisten-: notch coudition.
ning wings drifted through the The Union Boat club of Boston
rays of the wagon-lamp like snow I will enter crews In the American
flakes. A bird, aroused from Henley regatta at Philadelphia
The buckboard turned from
Home runs featured the prac
tice oi the Pittsburgh Pirate yts-i
terday. Nine circuit bits were
mm, .ii.u ine amateur oarsmen
competition at Buffalo in Juiy.
1 was absolutely square
tn him nnrt r. vmi QUra 1 nranl
Whltted and Tlerney each gh-the with no dea that be kew
ered a pair of the four-base hits. , was ln lote wlth ,.. that
you cared for me. ... He met
Catcher Eddie Ainsmith. vci-r-
me with simple cordiality. We
... o. u.e tigers, lus re ; looked at hiB beauliful modM for
pone, tor training. lie uai oeen tbe fountaB. r don t thlnk '
conditioning In California since hetraved in voir, or loot r m.n-
ner that anything
he returned recently from th- Ori
ent, where he worked with an ex
bibitlon team. .
Manager Cobb ot the Detroit
Americans has obtained authc.'ity
to carry 23 men on his r. s-
ter. Heretofore only 22 mea have care for me.
been carried.
Fred Beebe, veteran tnirle.- of
the Louisville Association club,
has been released to the Wichita
club.
The St. Louis
released Pitcher
Americans hare
Steve Ferrel to
was wrong
with me. . . . Then, with a rery
winning simplicity, he spoke of
you, of himself. . . . There seem-;
ed to be nothing for me to say:
he knew that I was in love with
you. and that you had come to
And I heard a
man speak to another man as
only a gentleman could speak a
real man. rare and thoroughbred.
. . . lt cost him something to say
to me what he said. His nerve
was heart-breaking to me when
he found the courage to tell me
what his father had done.
He told me with a smile his
Mot only are these pimples and
splotches disfiguring, but they lead
to serious skin diseases that spread
and cause the moat discomforting
irritation and pain. Sometimes they
foretell Eczema, boils, blisters, scaly
eruptions and other annoyances that
bum like flames of fire, and make
you foal that your akin is ablaze.
If you are afflicted with this
form of skin disease do not expect
to be cored by lotions, ointments,
salves and other local remedies, as
they can not possibly reach the
source of the trouble, which is in
the blood. Begin taking S.S.S. to
day, and write a complete history
of your case to our chief medical
adviser who will give you special
instructions, without charge. Write
at once to Medioal Director, 162
Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
GOOD GLASSES
Properly fitted by our Eyesight Specialist, a graduate
Optometrist, licensed by the State of Oregon, with years
of experience in conjunction with the latest methods and
most modern, approved, scientific instruments, is
YOUR ASSURANCE
of the utmost in eyeglass protection, satisfaction
and comfort.
HARTMAN BROS.
Jewelers and Opticians,
Salem, Oregon.
the Terre Haute club of the Tares! pride was dead that he had cut
I league.
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