The Capital Joornal, Salem, Oregoa
Salaurday, October
LOBBYISTS
REPLACED
BY AGENTS
Blaster Minds Watch
Over Congress In In
terest of the Special
Class Nowadays
By David M. CHURCH
Washington, Oct. 28 The most
elerer men about Congreas are
those who have their meats in the
galleries.
The gallery! tee are the regulars
Who are on hand to observe. Most
( them are paid for their obser
vations and are professional at it.
The "lobbyist" has long since
been deceased in Washington. In
this day of advancement in thlngB
political we have "legislative
agentB." They are perfectly legiti
mate workers and can not be the
Successors of the old-time lobby
ists, but at least tbey are the out
growth of the demised gentleman
lobbyist.
Legislative Agents
legislative agents work in the
open. .They appear before com
.mittees to plead the cause of their
various interests, and they do
"missionary" work with the var
ious members, hut they are very
circumspect in their transactions
and most careful nut to cross the
line of demecratlon between pro
priety and impropriety In Influ
encing legislation
$40,000 of Bandits
Loot Not Yet Found
By Betty Baker Diihon, 1 At first we were afraid to use
HWena. Mont., Oct. 29. The !" Then the bey changed h Is
Charles Stevens,. iory, ami we mww u ui -
It. We rigurea we migni as wen
have some of tt, so we started to
spend It. Then we decided to
divide it. The officers came be
fore we divided tt. and one of
them sat on the money twice
When the officers Hft we divided
commitment of
nineteen, of this city, to the State
Penitentiary, at Deer Lodge, for a
term of from seven to fourteen
years has renewed interest here
in the mystery surrounding the
whereabouts of approximately
'Robin Hood" Is Coming
To Grand Monday Night
120,000, half of the $40,000 m
currency stolen by Stevens while
acting as messenger for a local
bank.
The story of young Stevens'
crime, the recovery of a portion
of the money and the search for
an elusive "Mr. Smith," who is
supposed to have disappeared
with the missing money, was re
vealed here by detectives follow
ing denial by the State supreme
court of a new trial for Stevens,
aftr he had been convicted of the
theft.
Stevens Found Bonnd
Young Stevens, who was a mes
senger of the Union hank and
trust company of Helena, was
found In an alley not far from the
bank an hour after he had left
the post office with $.40,000 In
currency consigned to the bank
He was bound, gagged and appar
ently unconscious. The $40,000
w.-a nowhere to be found.
Stevens was revived and told n
lurid tale of having been attacked,
beaten and robbed as he cut
across the alleys to the bank. He
said two men had attacked him
and described them in detail.
Since Helena is a small town
the money, 'Mr. Smith' taking his
share and leaving the city."
And to date neither . "Mr
Smith" nor the missing $2.0,000
has been apprehended.
These legislative agents are. and the time was mid-forenoon
the story was questioned. He
was taken to Jail and after two
days he admitted that he bad
evolved the yarn from a movie he
had seen.
He had declared that the cash
ier of the bank had been his ac
complice and was to have shared
in the spoils.
After a severe grilling, how
ever, young Stevens finally ad
mitted that W had stolen the
money and said that be would
railroads before congress, as a' show the officers where he had
rule. Thorn Is the Washington , hidden It.
representative of the Amerlcnnj Bunk officials, officers, news
Association of Railway Kxecu-i miner men and a strong of sperta
tlves. and he turns up everywhere tors followed him to the rear of
that matters affecting the rail- the building where he had been
roads are lielna dinunm-d. Short; found. He said the money was
In stature and given to much concealed In a hole In the wall
advulrdupois, Thorn Is not Ini- Inside the building, which was
presslve In appearance, but when deserted.
Honey Disappears.
'master minds." They are clever
men, most of them conceded to
be more clever than the men with
whom they arc working.
' Foremost In the rankB of the
legislative agents at the present
time Is Wayne B. Wheeler, gener
al counsel for the Anti-Saloon
League. So far as congress Is con
cerned. Wheeler Is the Antl
Baloon League.
Alfred P. Thorn, a lawyer of
note, represents the cause of the
be spcuks he generally gels attention.
Farmers' Eepresentative
He put his band Into the hole.
Then he looked blank, then
Benjamin ('. Marsh gives an. frightened and finally said there
entirely different angle on the was nothing there. He insisted
legislative agent. Marsh carries he lied left It there. A thorough
the title of legislative agent for search proved that there was no
the National Farmers' Council money anywhere on the premises.
I sundry kindred organise-, A grueling cross - examination
failed to shako the story
tions. He Is a most active agent
and resorts to the buttonhole
method of persuasion. Marsh Is
perhaps the most frequent con
gressional witness, and he ap
pears before every and any com
mittee that will bear btm.
Charles Lyman, secretary of the
American Board of Farm Organ
isations gives still another slant
and It
became apparent that Stevens
v im tilling the truth.
But where was the money?
Thiers were almost as many
theories as there were Inhabitants
of Helena and officers spent a
busy two weeks trulllng down
false clues.
Then the lavish expenditures of
OB the sort of men who keep their a family in a small town near
finger on the pulse of congress. Helena attracted attention. Their
A college man, who looks like a story of the sudden death of a
college man, sad a student, Ly- wealthy relative was found to be
man appears before congresslon- fslse. and officers began to in-
I committee with a rapid-fire
line of argument that sweeps
most of the members of congress,
4klng In their chairs. Into ac
tion. Lyman always livens things
Up by bis snappy assertions and
his snappy replies to cross-exam-tnatloa.
Labor On Job
j Labor's legislative agents. are
of still another stamp. Kdgar
Wallace, the little Welshman,
who bears the title of legislative
gent for the American Federa
tion of Labor, la a retiring Indi
vidual who speaks with heatta
ttoa sad who seems half afraid.
This may be a pose and it may
vestlgate their source of Income
Daring the Inquiry, which cov
ered several days, It Is delieved
that a detective twice sat on the
hidden money once while he oc
cupied a cushioned chair and
again when he reposed on a couch.
"Mr. Smith" Disappears
The suspected family consisted
of husband and wife and a brother
if the woman the mysterious
"Mr. Smith." "Mr. Smith" disap
peared soon after Investigation of
the family started
One day. while a detective was
questioning the woman, the hus
band abruptly left the room. The
detective followed him to a heap
nut , at any rate, bla looks and his of rubbish and watched him pull
voice are belying, for Wallnre Is a; out of an old flour sack s huge
belligerent of no mean powers ; Pile of bills, part of the missing
when he Is aroused. When labor's) $40,000.
cause seeds some good, -trotie 'Wording to the detective the
oration. Frank Morrison la sent husband relsted this story:
to do tbe Job. and he cuts loose i The man and his brother-ln-wltb
some verbal pyrotechnics law, "Mr. Smith," were driving
that arouse furious envies among) in a truck near the alley, when
those members of congress who they saw the bank messenger
re given to eratl n I When labor hide something In the deserted
needs cool, collected legal argu- building.
Blent. Jackson Ralston comes
OB the hill and does the Job.
up
The woman's brother entered
the building and seised the pack
age. Arrived in the light, he
found it was money. He tossed I'
into the rear of the truck, under
some old quilts, and drove all over
Helena, while the entire police, the Phetham Country einb today
and sheriff's force was hunting)
Conspiracy Is
Charged In Coal
Mine Operation
laaianapnn.. lira , uci is -At- for the missing cash,
fraavlt. designed to establish the . Th niKht wn. w MW
existence of aa unlawful ctinsplr-j p,p.r lh, BaB wert
ey between union eoal miners and ; .cared, because the boy said he
peratore were Introduced today In, h,d b,n gjUgg,d by two men
the federal court hearing on aa ap-. There were two of us. aad we had
ftteatlon for a temporary lajnc-',h monev. d.d t w,- ,r w,-,
Hob restricting the United Mine ,WB UD , ,UN, w d b.
Worker, of merlcs In Its efforts dolM Um tor th, )ob BOW
to organise the West Virginia eoal wouldn't we
IWM relieving, around Mingo SUrtee Spend...
CUWln ' W. hrnnrhl I ),.,.. m ,..! K I
Tbe Borderland Coal corpora-1
lion, in seeking tbe Injunction on
ahir a! ihM nr vi. It
mm w in. ww ' i - -1 w , , , 1 1
gtnla operators, also ashed that
ay order. If granted, set aside
wage agreements between the on-''
BSSI Sad! saiMlan In nr.ntat.l
Balds throughout the country.
Lumber Yard Bunts.
II la aflax, hUaa . Oct. IT. I
tea that destroyed tbe yards of ,
the Packraawt Lumber company In
t. Loats Park, a suburb, early to- i
ay. rawed loss estimated at
Tt.e. Half a Billion feat of '
Tie tees of eoal aad four I
1 ale -lag to tbe ram
Task of Arms
Conference
Complicated
Washington, Oct. 29. States
men and naval experts meeting to
arrange for curtailing the world's
navies would have had a much
easier time if they had staged
their conference back in John
Paul Jones' day, or even In Far
ragut's. It wasn't so complicated
then. Just look what they have to
know about today:
Battle cruisers, battleships,
light cruisers, destroyers, subma
rings, airplane carriers, sixteen to
twenty-inch guns and nearly a
million lesser details, all differ
ent. John Paul Jones and Farragut
didn't need a card index and a flo
tilla of yeoman ierks to keep
track of the different kinds of
fighting ships he had depend on.
John and the ad lrals of his day
had only three niapor classes of
ships.
Three Major Classes.
There were: The ship of the
line, which was the equivalent to
our battleship of today; the frig
ale, or what would be a modern
cruiser, and the sloop of war, or
corvette, which was a light cruis
ing vessel. These three classes
made up the navies of the world
up Farragut's day, in the Civil
war.
To further simplify matters,
ships were ranked according to
their guns, the guns being ar
ranged in tiers In tbe ship's sides.
Ships of the line carried from 74
guns to 120 nd were known as
"74's" or "120'a," although they
always carried more guns than
they were credited with. Aa a fur
ther guide the gun tiers were
marked by broad white bars
around tbe ship lengthwise. Tbe
most Ignorant lookout man in the
tops could tell Instantly whether
a vessel "In the offing" was a for
midable line ship or merely a light
scout by the number of bands. To
day tt takes a naval officer and
perhaps a book of silhouetted
shapes of vessels to Identify an
other fighting ship on the horizon.
Onus All Simple.
The guns of those days were
likewise simple. Instead of ths
10-inch and perhaps 20-inch mon
sters of today, arranged in hooded
turrets along the deck, the guna ot
100 years ago and less were most
ly either the "long gun" or the
"carronade." Tbe former was used
for heavy work while rarronadee
were for short range and had
something ot the effect of a large
shotgun. Where today the gun-
pointer has to do most of his aim
ing by abstruse mathematical cal
dilations the gunnery of the old
days was remarkable for IU sim
plicity.
rne "pigtail-haired gunner
merely pointed his gun at the
enemy point-blank and let fly. He
moved the gun up. down, right or
left, with a crowbar arrangement
or ropes. The ususl way of finish
ing a naval battle was to run
alongside the enemy, grapple your
ship to his and fight it out on the
decks.
In those days the dignified
fathers would have decreed that
the navies were to limit their ar
mament to a certain number or
"longs" and "earronades." and the
angel of peace would have been
safe. Today they don't yet know
what will have to be limited or
how It will be done.
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consisted of about four hundred
dollars. So great was their faith,
however, that they took a chance,
and before many days had gone by
"Robin Hood," was tbe talk of
Chicago, and later the entire Eng
lish speaking world. It is said that
tlnce Mr. Dunbar's revival, his
company has sung the opera more
than six hundred times.
New Books at
Public Library
"Your Job," how to choose a
job, howt o get a Job, howt o grow
in a Job, by Harold Whitehead.
"Introduction to Public Fi
nance, by Carl Copping Plohn.
"The Elements of Marketing,"
by Paul Terry Cherlngton.
"Practical Wireless Telegraphy"
a complete text book for students
of radio communication, by Elmer
Eustice Bucher.
"Atkinson Sign Painting Up fo
Now," a complete manual of the
ait of sign painting contains 96
designs or layouts and accompany
ing color notes 75 alphabets em
bracing all standard styles, their
modifications and alternates
comprehensive test covering all
practical phases of the art for
every day reference In the shop,
by Frank H. Atkinson.
"The Essentialse of Lettering,"
a manual for students and design
ers, by Thomas Ewing French and
Robert Meiwlejohn.
"Eating to Live Long," by Wil
liam Henry Porter.
"Old Cape Cod," the land, the
men, the sea, a picture of colonial
days, by Mary Rogers Bangs.
"The Orchestra and How to
It," by M.
Listen to
Nathan.
"Pieces for Every Day
Schools Celebrate," by Norma
Helen Deming.
"Handbook of Church Advertis
ing," by Francis Higbee Case.
"The Singing Caravan," a Sufi
tale in poetry, by Robert Vansit-
tart. The author enters on the title
page an explanation of his title in
the following:
Montagu-1 brought forth a denial from the
executive office.
the. ,,, t gee rumors Dersist
to the effect that I am contemplat
ing resigning as governor to ac
cept some federal position," de
clared the governor Friday In a
statement to the press. "I have
no such Intention in mind. In
fact, I publicly denied the rumor
emphatically when it first was
and tbe
The appearance of Ralph. Dun
bar's presentation of 'Robin Hood' ,
at the Grand theatre. Monday
night, October 31 recalls some of
the most interesting episodes In
RHEUMATISM
CANNOT KXIST
In the human body if you will use
Tnmll'a Ir n t i An I I- ,Oi
theh istory of the theatre. At the ous. absurd and nrenn.t.m,,. in
Chicago Opera house, on June 9, fact, it is a pity and a shame to
1890, the premiere of Mr. DcKo- about Rheumatism and Cout.
ven's beautiful work was given. , "T surrer "y" " ejther
Th I. Hi . miiaioinaiury, muscular, sciauc or
The story is told that the Boston- anv othr fm-m nt nho,,.,
ians, that admirable band of mu- Trunk's Prescription sells for
slcal players, whose memory Is so $1.75.
dear to myriads, were in severe Thls Prescription does not ruin
m1!? .wph m J1.- D,eKoven iub- wr11.,:
mltted Robin to them for pro- good food you wish while takins
ductldn, and that the total resour- Trunk s Prescription. It absolutely
ces which were available for the and positively overcomes any kind
expenses of building f or - ot Rheurnatlsm or Gout on earth.
1139 Clarkson St., Denver Colo.
"Each man Is many as a caravan:
His straggling selves collect In
tales lige these.
Only the love of one can him one;
Who takes the Sufi Way the Way
of Peace?"
"Word Study for HlghSchools,"
by Norma Llp'plncott Swan.
For the Children.
"A History of Everyday Things
in England, 1060-1 799," by Mar
porie, and Charles Henry Holme
Quenuell. It includes costume,
armour, games, building, travel
and similar topics.
"When I Was a Boy in Persia,"
by Youel Benjamin Mirza.
Olcott Once More
Denies Rumor He
Will Resign Post
Persistent rumors to the effect
that Governor Olcott was contem
plating resignation of his position
to accept a federal plum has again
authorising house
" - me I o.UOfl nn
r 0y
'PKa
-""rees met
signed tbe report
has been hi,i , '
u lor -
cause of a parliamentary ,J
The hill tht, . "hj
zt,uuu.uoo immediately J
... wirn (unit.
nrinted some weeks ago
denial was published in some ofcon and
the paper at least. Regardless of, nlovment n
that fact the rumor persists. Once - lnousan4
and for all I desire to say there is
no basis for such a rumor and
there never has been."
$75,000,000 Road
Program Approved
Washington, oct. 29. Goo
roads legislation was put on the
highway for final action by adop
tion at a resolution by the house
RIMS
and Rim Parts for all Cars.
Free Expert Advice
Spring for all cars in stock.
IRA JORGENSEN
150 South Hijjb Street
tion and costuming the people
Big
Surprise
Vaudeville
Sunday
n
GIVE THEM
TO DRINK
jP"HE almost unceasiigi
try witn which ch
work off their surplu;
makes good and nutritious Fog
a continual necessity. Ofi
the food drinj
Baker's Cocn, 1
l4t( mntt auJB
supplying as
the upbuildinj.
good for
fine flavor and aroma.
Made only by
KALI til DArVcn & UU. LT
EwibNAed I7S0
Booklet of Choice Recipes sera fm
New York, Oct. IS Miss Cecil
leitch, woman's golf champion of
Great Britain. France and Can
ada, defeated Miss Alexa Stirling,
former United States champion by
two up, before a large gallery at
This is a Studebaker Yi
Wanted
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MarhiT. firry arm Tno
Etc.
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DO YOU KNOW
That The
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P. c. s.
Barney Oldfield Tires
Are Here
30x3 $8.99
30xsy2 $9.99
Oidfield has knocked the
stuffing out of Ford-sire Tire
prices.
Vulcanizing guaranteed.
Get yours now at
CLARK'S
Tire House
319 N. Corrunerrial St
Salem, Ore,
For the first eight months of 1921, our sales of Stude
baker Care were 41 greater than for the same period
of 1920, and 101 greater than for the same period
of 1919. For the same period, our sales of Repair
Parte were 13 less than in 1920, and 3 less than
in 1919.
On September 1st, 1921, there were approximately
116,000 more Studebaker Cars in operation than two
years ago, and yet our parts business is 3 less than it
was in 1919. This proves conclusively that
Studebaker Cars are standing up in service
and staying out of repair shops, to a degree
unexcelled, we believe, by any cars of what
ever price.
The Studebaker Corporation of America.
A. R. ERSKINE, Pr-id.nt
NEW PRICES OF STTDEBAKER CARS
I. o. b. Salem, etfectivc September 8, 1921
Tearing Cars aad P.tedsten:
Light Six S-Paas, Roadster
Light-Six Touring Car
Bpecial-SIx t-Paaa. Roadster
Special-Six Touring Car ;
Special-Six 4 Pass- Roadster
Blg-SU Tow ring Car .
184
1895
1S95
Coupes aad Sedans:
Light -Stx 2 pass Con pe-Roadster
Light-Six S paas. Man- .
Special -Six 4 -pass. Coupe
Special-Six i-paaa. Sedan
Bl -Six 4 pus Coupe
Big-Six 7-
$1300
- 2125
2795
Boys aad Girls!
Wa V. . . . i
- "m nueu to lAKft
entire OUt LUt Of n.nnf:. ,.,,,
ji-cj sin rifts uuuom,
middleman or retail profit.
'oot Bails Rugby regulation
who. sruaranteea nana mad. h
der, 2.
Soccer Bails and Piuichlnt
der, 12 each.
H. NICHOLSON CO. KublMr
Sundries
224 Akron Savings & Lou
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friends.
Three Stages Dallj
east bound train Mill Citv: 4:11
Leave Mill City 7 pm; 4 ta
Leave O. S. depot Sulua
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at 1 p. m.
Aum.vl.lo, Turner, Stan
pitai. Cottage farm.
Jos. H. Ham man,
Phone 304
Salem-Dallas
Stage
Leave Salem 0. . Depot
7:10 A. M.
11:10 A. M. , .
6:10 P. M.
Leave Dallas
8:30 A. M.
1:00 P. M.
SO P. M.
FARE 65 CENT
Dally and Sunday except cat
at 7:10 A. M. does not rni
Sunday
Bound Trip $100
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Care of
Yick So Tong
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Haa BMdicln. which will
cur. any known dim.
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until I p. m.
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