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: I: ( i i i PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1922, CapitaIournal Salem, Oregon An Independent Newapaper, Published every evening except Sunday, Telephone 81; nnri 31 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher Cost Plus Contracts - The state Irrigation and Drainage Securities Commia eion has a second time refused to approve plans for the development of the Jefferson Water Conservation district, formerly the North unit or the, tiig Deschutes project The action of the Commission is to be commended, thousrh it meets strone objection from property owners, of the district who are impatient at delay., It will save them from the certain consequencies of their own folly and eventual bankruptcy. The Commission's refusal is based upon objections to the cost-plus contract proposed and to the sale of district bonds at 82 cents on the dollar, as well as to the lack of practical colonization plans necessary to develope' .the dis trict. Under the plans offered, the land owners would not have received more than titty cents of each dollariex pended for development work. The Grants Pass Irrigation district offers an excellent illustration of the beauties of the cost-plus contract and discounted bond sales system. Under it, the cost of irri gating- the district land3 increased from an estimated ?45 an acre to $143. What was estimated to cost 8300,000 actually cost $1,390,000 in district bonds and Grants Pass district bonds were sold at 90 cents instead of 8z. The same bond buyer and the same contractor who fleeced the Grants Pass district, proposed to duplicate the operation in the Jefferson district, so a glance at actual operations conducted at Grants Pass i3 enlightening. The cost plus contract paid a profit to the contractor of 15 per cent on expenditures, including rentals ot equipment and transportation as well as payroll. An expenditure of $2150 a month or $25,800 a year, plus expenses, for contractor's superintendents and foremen, paid with 15 percent additional ;vas forced upon the district. All the autos the contractor desired were furnishe.d by the district, except one, which the district rented from the contractor at $100 a month plus cost of operation, maintenance, as well as lo percent additional. The Grants Pass contractor received in rentals for second-hand equipment more than enough to purchase the equipment new, made a profit on its transpdrtation, made a profit upon all district construction and other expendi tures, had all salaries and expenses ' paid with 15 percent added protit and kept the profit irom the commissary and camps built and maintained by the district. .. No irrigation district handicapped by excessive costs of construction and excessive interest charges can make good. Because so many have tried to, is what has delayed irrigation development. The emergency that produced the cost-plus contract has long since passed. Labor and mater ials are abundant and comparatively cheap. There is no excuse for perpetuating the almost criminal conspiracy to rob the farmers upon whom the future development of the state depends. It is to be hoped that the era of exploiting the irriga tion district of Oregon by unscrupulous promoters and greedy bond-brokers and contractors has definately ended. The welfare of the state is at stake and progress can only be insured by the districts securing full value for their money. It was to insure this, and impose these safeguards that the Commission was created. JURY IN BANKER'S CASE DISAGREES; DISOHARSED ' v Tacoma, Wash., May 27. For the second time this week a jury before whom Ole S. Larson, former president of the defunct Scandinavian-American bank was tried on the charge of illegally borrow ing the funds of the bank, was unable to reach a verdict and was dismissed by Superior Judge M. L. Clifford shortly before noon to day. The case was given to the Jury at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. GIRLS BAN EXPENSIVE ' GRADUATION GOWNS Tacoma, Wash., May 27. If any girl graduate of the Lincoln high school here appears at the commencement exercises Juno 16, clad in a dress costing more than $1S she will be given her diploma without being allowed to sit with the class on the, platform. That was the edict promulgated by the girls of the class today, and a com mittee of teachers was named to ee that it lb enforced. Girl grad uates, under the decision, will be permitted to wear any kind of a white dress coming within the price limit. Wool Kates Reduced. Omaha, Neb., May 27. Reduc tions of carload rates on Wool In grease In sacks and in bales, from points on the Union Pacific sys tem lines in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, to Boston, Mass., etfec ttve June 6 were announced today by Frank W. Robinson, the sys tem's freight traffic manager. MAXWELL FEATURED AT EXPOSITION At the "Own Your Home Expo sition," recently held in New York city, the committee ,) in charge paid a high honor to tin good Maxwell when they selected it as the only car to be exhibited at the show. "This is a fitting tribute U those qualities-of the good Max well which make it essentially a car of the home," commented O B. Gingrich Motor company, loca. Maxwell dealer, upon hearing thai the good Maxwell had been chos en to represent the entire auto mobile industry at the exposition The moderate price, the beauty, the comfort and roominess, the reliable low-cost service tor which it is noted, stamp the good Max well as the logically ideal car for the family. It is the final equip ment to a complete home. "And the decision of the execu tive committee of the exposition to include a line of motor can among the exhibits, is recognition of the great importance of the au tomobile as a means of transporta tion enjoyed by and benefiting U the entire family." The "Own Your Home Expos! tion" is an outgrowth of the "Owl Your Home" movement started by the department of labor of tht United Slates government some years ago, the work being under taken by a special bureau of the department. When the war came the extensive program which hail been planned was necessarily halt ed, but in 1919 the work was re sumed, and in that year the first "Own Your Homo Expostlon" was held in New York. AUTO TOP LOWEST PRICES PROMPT SERVICE Roadster .,...$8.50 to $45.00 5-Pass. Touring ..' $10.00 to $50.00 7-Pass Touring $22.00 to $65.00 Tops Dressed $2.00 to $5.00 Seat Covers $10.00 to $35.00 Seats cut down $15.00 Cushions Repaired. See us. Wood's Auto Top Shop Formerly Hull's Top Shop - TC. WOOD, Mgr. 271 Chempkcta St. Back of Y. M. C. A. Buy what you need, but don't sell it. One of our mistaken notions is that the sole idea of life is fun. e It is nearly always the case that a "good fel low" makes a bad husband. The first kiss is hard to get, Jut the rest are easy. -There would be little talking done if nobody opened his mounth until he had something to say. People say things are wrong, but they don't X' seem to know what they are. . Hez Heck Says: "When you see a good thing cominVturn around and go with it." Copyright 1922, Premier Syndicate, Inc. 1 T0Ve'S eec I A Masquerade By Idah McGlone Gibson Enter the Woman In voluntarily John Davis and Cfeorge Milton drew their chairs nearer ulaverlng. ' "I thought that you would think that Harry's story gets in teresting right here," remarked Clavering, with a sly grin. "Marriage la always interest ing, Milt. Not always pleasurable or comfortable, perhaps, but if we look at it aright it is always" in teresting. The trouble i3 that hus bands and wives do not eeem to get the perspective." "Then you think, John," smil ed Dr. Milton thoughtfully, "that the third person introduces the perspective, as well as the pros pective?" "I do not know whether that's a pun or an epigram," laughed Clavering. "I think you will see though, that up to date Harry hasn't been entirely to blame. Tied to a selfish extravagant wo man I really have been a little rorry for him. Seems to me he has been fairly white so far. I'm afraid I should have 'flown the coop' long before." "You're delaying things, Jim. Tell ua, what does Harry say about the lady who 'rang the bell' with him?" "I. will repeat the sentence I iust read," said Clavering 'Then suddenly I woke up, and it was a woman who awakened me. " 'I had been quite 111 and it A-as my first day at the office for three weeks. I knew that I was looking frailer then ever, for you know, Jim, that every time catch the slightest cold, that lung of mine fairly blows In rem. onstrance. " I shall never forget the first time that I saw her. She came in to the magazine office to sell a story. " 'I heard her voice in the outer room before I saw her. It had a peculiar resonant quality that I have never heard In the speaking voice of anyone else, man or woman. " 'Before I looked upon her I knew from that voice that she was a woman who had "a sympa thy as wide as want and like the sky it would always bend above a suffering world." " 'Presently she came through the doorway into my office. Her voice had made me very curious. As I heard her coming I rose and walked a few steps toward the door. - " 'She was very beautiful a woman anyone would look at the second time. I have often seen wo men, and of course men, -turn on the street and look after her and always there was "an expression on their faces was an, expression a modern Pippa and had said to them in passing, "All is right with, the world." " 'Aside from her mere physi cal beauty she seemed to radiate a spiritual quality that I have not found in any other person. Her smile was like a caress. She was vibrant with that Intangible qual ity which, for want of a better word, we dub personality. " 'After I came to know her, I told her once that she had a man's brain for she Is the most brilliant woman I have ever known and a woman's heart. " "She did not consider this as complimentary as I meant it, for she Insisted, that her brain was as feminine as any other part of her, and withal she was the most feminine woman I -have ever known. ; " 'As a rule I do not care for brainy women. They always seem to be so. egotistical about it, as though no other woman had the qualities of mind and Intellectual attainment that belongs to them but she had been able to eliminate from herself all the silly preju, dices and affectations that one finds, or at least I have found up to that time, in every acclaimed intellectual woman I had known. " 'I have never known a wo man so unaffected, s democratic, so Just. Never known one so loyal to her friends, so- tolerant of her enemies. " 'Many people misunderstood her because in their hypocritical brains there could be no concep tion of the frankness and generos ity of a mind like hers.Hhe spirit was unquenchable. She did not know the word fear, except as an interesting psychological study.'" ' "He has described Margaret better than I could do it myself, murmured Dr. Milton. Monday Margaret. 15 Nash Ltods th World in Motor Cor Valuo Six Ttmring &390 Will E. Purdy is to be the au thor of a book entitled "Twenty- five Years of Up's and Down's in Oregon."-: The copy is practically ready for the printer. Hamman Auto Stage Effective May 22nd ' . Three Stages Daily Leaves Salem Stage Terminal: -No. 1, 7:30 a. m. No. 3, 10:30 a. m. No. 5, 4:30 p. m. Leave Mill City: No. 6, 7 a. m. No. 2, 12:30 p. m. No. 4, 4 p. m. No. 1 connects with east bound train at Mill City, No. 2 waits for west bound train at Mill City. JOS. HAMMAN, Prop. Salem-Silwinon Division Leaves Salem Central Stage Ter minal, 7:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m. 5:00 D. m. Leaves Silverton News Stand, 8:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. Saleiu-Indenendeiioe-Moiiniouth Division Leaves Salem Central Stage Ter minal, 7:ou a.i m., :uo a. m., 11:00 a. m., 3:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. Leaves Monmouth, Monmouth ho tel, 8:13 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 8:15 D. m. Leaves Independence, Beaver ho tel, 8:30 a. m., 10:00 a. m., 1:15 p. m., 4:00 p. m., 6:30 p. m. We make connections at Salem to all parts of the valley. Extra trips by appointment. J. W. PARKER General Manager. SILVERTOX MOUNT ANGEL PORTLAND , C. & M. Stages Schedule South Bound Head down Dly. Dly. Dly. , No 5 No 3 No 1 PM PM AM 6:00 1:30 8:00 Portland 8:05 3:35 10:05 Mt Angel 8:30 4:00 10:30 Silverton,, Ar Ar Ar North Bound 'Read Up Dly. Dly. Dly. No 6 PM Not only are people saying with greater emphasis than ever that the Nash is a good invest ment, but they are proving their conviction by the growing volume of their purchases. s. tt is only to be expected that a financially independent manufacturing organization of notable efficiency in both men and method should produce a car so notable in value that it is attracting a steadily increasing percentage of buyers. NASH FOUR . NASH SIX Roadster $1175 Roadster $1620 - Touring 1650 Touring 1195 Sport lgl0 Coupe 1725 Touring 7-pass.) 1825 . ,or. Coupe (4-pass.) , 2410 Sedan 1950 Sedau 272i F. O. B. Salem " F. O: B. Salem. r- fxzz 1 11 iL Hi tE&l Jii ill SALEM NASH GO. 185 South Commercial Phone 471 No 2 AM 10:30 8:25 8:0 Lv No 4 PM 4:00 1:55 1:30 Lv Hartman's Glasses iSasier and Better. Wear them ind erj. Phone 12&f Salem. Oregon C0ESET SALE "Justrite" Corsets, three dif ferent models sizes 21, 22 only, fifty cents. Brassieres, all sizes, 32 to 44, thirty-five cents. Silk and fibre Hose, brown and black, fifty-five cents. A. E. LYONS, Balcony Portland Cloak & Suit Company, Phone 730. SUMMER TIME is BIKE-TIME BOYS: Come in and we will tell you how. several boys who thought they couldn't have a bicycle managed to get one last summer and now its all paid for Did it ever occur to you that there are always a lot of errands to be done in the summer time. Each one that you do for a neighbor or any one else usually- means a? dime and ten dimes will be a dollar, it won't "take long to pay for the bike that you use to run the errands on and its fun to ride, too. " , But boys, it isn't all work. You can ride to the ball game, ride out into the country, next year you can ride to school and we could mention lots of good times you can have with a bike. . Now, here is something important ; When you get a bike get a good one, come in and see the "Dayton," its double constructed throughout, double forks, double bar, reinforced handle Tiars, heavy seat, etc., and they cost no more than the ordinary kind. , x. t ' . I LLOYD E.RAMSDEN 8:30 Portland 6:25 Mt. Angel 6:00 Silverton Lv Sunday only 8:00 nm fm Portland Stages leave Stage Terminal Port land and Steelhammer s JJrug store Silverton Salem-Dallas Stage Leave Salem Stage terminal 7:00 a. m. 11.00 a. m. 5:10 p. m. Leave Dallas, Gail Hotel 8:30 a. m. 12:30 m? e:30 p. rn. FAPE 50 CENTS Daily, and Sunday Every day except morning trip does not run Sunday Hound Trip 90 cents L. M. HUM YICKSOTONG Chinese Medicine and Tei Co. Hal Medicine which will cure any known dis ' t ease. Open Sunday from 10 a. rn. until 8 p. m. 153 South High Street Salem, Oregon.' Fhone 283 HARDfWAEE AKDrUBHITUHE CO 220 N. Commerclr' Phone 1650 Strat mssssssm ... 1 NEW sejiS ' 30 ! 3'2 I NEW LOW PRICES Extra Service Tires - v J0 v I $9.95 i $13.95 W'IB.95 fe M8.95 1 Attractive prices on all other sizes BEST QUALITY-LOWEST PRICES Start the season right! Outfit your car"with these standard quality tires at the wonderfully I low prices offered. Four types to select from. New stock just received. FEDERAL TIRE SERVICE Katty Corner from Marion Hotel ! Commercial and Ferry Phone 471 ! . " i 387 Court Street Phone 16S7