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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1922)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1922 PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON CapitEyJournal Salem, Oregon PANTOMIME By J. H. Striebel L y IT An Independent Newspaper, Published erery ereatng except Sunday Telephone 81; news 13 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher Grabbing a National Park The clash between the National Park service and the Forestry bureau, which has prevented the enlargement of the Crater Lake National park, because of the jealousy of the Forestry bureau, which strives to retain authority over all the public domain possible; is again in evidence in the Barbour,- Roosevelt-Sequoia park bill now pending in congress. The Sequoia National park, in Southern California, 252 square miles in area, was established in 1890 to preserve several fine tracts of the primeval forests of California, the most remarkable in the world for the extraordinary size and beauty of their trees. It is the only national park (except the General Grant Park, which is insignificantly small and sadly mutilated by lumbering) whose express purpose was to pre serve some of these magnificent forests. For thirty-two years it has protected them, but it is to do so no longer. The Barbour bill, supposedly a bill to enlarge the park, while adding much land mostly of little value for park purposes or for anything else, contains a concealed joker that cuts the park in two and turns over the half containing the larger part of the fine forest to the Forest service, a bureau conducted entirely for commercial and utilitarian purposes, which can legally, and may be expected to, sell the greater portion of the trees for lumber. The addition of a large area of high, barren, rocky, inacces sible land to the park looks well on the map, and makes the deal seem like a good exchange., But it is not an exchange. The public, not the Forest Service, owns the land that will be added to the park, and can use it for park purposes if it pleases without giving anything up. The public stands to gain only what it has already. It stands to lose the only two large tracts of forest of enormous sugar and yellow pines (trees 200 feet tall and 200 to BOO or more years old) that the entire National Park system contains, as well as two of the four large groves of sequoias that the present park contains. This is a variation of the same old scheme that greedy lumbermen have worked repeatedly to secure choice parts of timber in exchange for worthless tracts of brush. Altho it is no longer possible for lumbermen to buy forest reserve land, they can buy the timber without the expensive overhead of ownership, and there is no binding promise to protect the trees, once they are under jurisdiction of the Forestry serv ice, which cares more for the money it can realize than for the perpetuation of scenic beauty. ' All lovers of nature are requested to white to their congressmen and senators protesting against this grab of natural forests that a thousand years cannot replace. Reducing Taxes Secretary of State. Kozer recently outlined the following suggestion to the legislature as a beginner in tax reduction to save $775,000 a year in state expenditures: Eliminate one-fourth mill annual levy for road purposes, earing annually $250,000; transfer entire administrative expense of state industrial accident commission to Its own funds, annual saving 1100,000; transfer entire administrative expense of state game and fish commission to Its own funds, annual saving $15,000; transfer entire administrative expense of world war veterans' state aid com mlssslon to receipts of commission, annual saving $60,000; eliminate bounty on predatory animals saving $60,000; reduce bureau of mines appropriation $12,500, annual saving $12,500; reduce advertising Oregon's scenlo wonders and appropriation for State Tourist Associa tion, annual saving $25,000; levy only sufficient tax to meet demands on soldiers' educational aid fund, annual saving $262,500 total annual saving $775,000. Such mild reductions as those proposed will not offend anyone in particular, neither will they make much difference to the taxpayer, for $775,000 is a very small part of the $40,000,000 annual expenditure, but of course every little bit helps. Still better than Mr, Kozer's plan is the consolidation scheme put in effect some years ago in Illinois and installed in Idaho and Washington last year, which has resulted in material saving. But no plan for saving state taxes will accomplish ends sought unless it is followed by proportional reductions in county, state and district expenditures. Practically every legislator as well as all state officials were elected pledged to drastic tax reductions. It will be interesting to see . how . sincere they are in carrying out promises at the coming sesssion. " The Regeneration o, Malcolm Starmount 1 f By Idah McGlone Gibson. CLlong State Street City farmers are now harvesting next year's crops. Anything tastes good to a hungry man. The best rolling stock is the good old silver dollar. A man can never keep ahead by following a crowd. Why doesn't someone start a "Kiss-your-wife week?" It takes a strong man to keep a promise and a weak man to break one. When a girl wishes a man to save money, it is a sure nign he is going toneed it. It is unlucky for 13 to sit down to a table where food has been prepared for only 12. The government has issued a bulletin on "How to Save Coal." The first requisite is to get some coal to save. A one-horse town Is where all the farmers view the Sat urday night crowd sitting in their flivvers parked along Main street. The popular sport of "filling up the tank" has changed position from a location in the barroom to a gasoline sta tion along the highway. - The win "Maybe Nalda Courteney wi)l cool off," remarked Parker cryptically; "but I am afraid you don t know her, Pat. I think she will hang to Starmount if possible. He Is too good a thing to let slip throug her fingers without trying to get good and even with him for slipping. 'She will send him to prison, if she can, or make him pay well for the accidental death of Dick Ten nant. She Is always in need of money and this will look liKe provi dence to her." Well, Ted, if that is your opin ion, I might as well prepare for a prison sentence. I will never give Nalda Courtency another dollar for anything while I am alive and I will fix it so that she cannot get her fingers on anything of mine eft er I am dead. I want you to draw up the papers right now, Ted. Make it a trust deed by which Mary Dev lin is to be paid everything I have when she is 25 years old. You are to be her guardian and see to her education and care until that time Ted, you will do this for me, won't vouf" Of course, I will, but I think you are crazy, Mai. You don't know anything about this girl. You only met her this morning. You stand in great danger of being put out of the way before you get through with this mess. Are you sure that this is what you want to dof "Sure. Fix up the papers while I telephone." Wait a minute, Mul. We must have another witness to the arrange ment beside Pat." "Call in that nurse, She was to sit up part of the night with Mrs. Devlin." "Do ye think he means it, Mr, Parker!" asked Mulcahy as Star mount left the room. "Does he really mean to make little Mary Devlin rich!" "Yes, Pat. He means it. I have known Starmount ever amce he was a boy. Ho is a creature of impulse But he always stands by the conse quences of his impulses, good or bad." The lawyer walked into an ad joining room and sat down at a writ ing desk and drew up a Bimple will in which Malcolm Starmount gave his vast fortune to a little girl of whose very existence he had been ignorant that morning. , "You will sign here, Pat," said Parker, "after you have seen Mr. Starmount sign his name. Meantime drop down the hall and ask the nurse to come hero." As Mulcahy loft the room Star mount returned. "I feel like tho conspirator iu the third act of a melodrama, Tod. I've sent in the notice of a thousand dol Inrs reward of my car and reported its loss to the police. Now after they find it and Tennant's body, someone will bo sure to talk and ther will be an inquest and an investi gation started as to what happen ed at tho fool party Nalda pulled off. I will probably be accused of being too drunk to know when Ten- nant came to got the car and start homo. I hope it won't be that bad Mai. But better that kind of a sean dal which you cun get rid of by going to Europe for a few months than languishing in jail" "Shuh-sh. Here comes the nurse Pat came in with her and she wit- DIUBELL'S Pine-iar Honey it Fbr Cbuhj Aid Cokls Nothing (ape jaax vitality and slow down your work nor than a cold ' th. kind that dran on and on. Banlah thoaa ttrngihwlin( eolda ick!r. almplr. Dr. BUV- ttms-provaa Miwdr breaks tffht, rKln null, fHMtta,HnH trrtrat? thrcfttfk ' Ctm ooldo at th. Marti Bur Or. MI'S AH dansaiata, SO. nessed the signing of Starmount's will. She looked surprised, but said nothing. After she and Mulcahy had affixed their names she turned to leave the room. "How is your patient, nurse!" Parker asked as he folded up the paper. ''She is comfortable, Mr. Parker. Probably more comfortable than she ever was before in her life, but that is about all that can be hoped for." "Is Mary awake, nurse!" Pat ask- .ed suddenly. "I do not know. I will see if you want me to." "If she is, will you ask her to come out in the hall and talk to me a minute!" ' "What are you going to do, Mul cahy! If I were you I would let that child rest." "She'll rest much better, Mr. Star mount, after I have talked with her." . . ''But, Pat, you must not tell her what I have just done." "Of course not, but if I know Mary Devlin at all,', she is lying there bothering her little head and worrying for fear they will all be taken back to the alley tomorrow. I want her to know that she is go ing to stay here a while, at least, and that I am going to be here to look after tor. That will make her sleep if anything will." ' - "All right, Pat, but don't keep her long. " "Malcolm, I am afraid that you are letting yourself in for a lot," remarked Theodore Parker with true lewyer caution when he and Starmount were left alone. "Well, if you must know, Ted, with all I am letting myself in for consciously and with all the letting in that the future may bring, I feel better and more decent tonight than I have for a long while. "You know, Ted, what my father was. You know how he treated my mother. You know all the scandal about my birth. Your father stood by my mother when she had to fight for her honor and my ligiti macy and, of course, you know how triumphantly she came through it all. ... . : ''I was only four years old then, and you were only ten, Ted, but we both were men when my father died. Ho couldn't -cut me out of the major part of his millions because they had been put in trust for me by my gradfather. ' . ' ? "You would have thought, Ted, that his Toveless end would have been a lesson to me, his son, but; I have gone on my careless way ever since my mother died. And here I am, probably in for as big a scan dal as my father ever had and with a., criminal charge thrown in for good measure." . Tomorrow Mary's Pledge. The chap who just knows he can never get anything for nothing, lots of times gets a big setback when his fellows express their free opin ions of him. Saves Home Baking; Aik for luscious rsitin pit fresh aand juicy at your gro cer" I or neighborhood bak hop. Just telephone for on t 7. v j One taste It and youll agree that thare'i no longer any need to bake at home, , g Serve tonight for dinner. Let your men folks decide. Made with delicious V, Sun-Maid Raisins Hd Your Iron Today? For Gifts That Last EASTMAN BEOS. Diamonds Watches Jewelry and Silverware Phone 1255 Salem. Ore. J On the Highest Class Merchandise Every Day Prices Darigold Milk, can.... 10c 10 cans . 95c Case, 48 cans $4.40 13 lbs. Sugar . ....$1.00 Crown Flour $1.99 Vim Flour $1.99 Carnation, Alpine, Bord en's Milk, 11c; 7 cans 75c Have made the Busick Store popular not only where we have a store but a number of people many miles from our nearest store are writing us and some towns have Had a committee call upon us asking that we put a store in their town. Our prices are a real saving and our policy has always been and always will be to refund the full purchase price for any ' article that is not entirely satisfactory. Special Price This Week Penick's Syrup 1 gal. golden .55. Yz gal. golden ........29c 1 gal. clear white....59c Ys gal. clear white 30c 1 gal. Butter Scotch, ' regular price $1.55, V special $1,49 Yi gal. Butter Scotch 75C Corn These Prices for Five Days Only Dec. 5th to Dee. 9th Buy enough to do you until next canning season. Tomatoes The Tomato market is very strong; several ad vances have already tak en effect. Peas We believe this grade of Peas will be selling 50c to $1.00 per dozen more by next spring. Golden Bantam per can 25c, wholesale price this week, per doz. $2-25; per case 24 cans $4.89. Royal Club Fancy Maine, 20c; wholesale price this week, per doz. $2.20; er case 24 cans $4.09. Golden Iris Fancy Iowa, 19c; wholesale price this week, per doz. $2.00; per case 24 cans $3.29. My. T. Nice Fancy Maryland, 11c; wholesale price this week per doz. $1.20; per case 24 cans $2.25. You will never have an opportunity to purchase this quality corn at these low prices. Stores, hotels, restaurants and board ing house orders filled only so long as present stock lasts; will not guarantee Stock to last all week Royal Club hand picked solid Tomatoes, per can, 18c; per doz. $2.12; per case 24 cans $4.00. Springville Utah Standard ripe, juicy Tomatoes, per case 24 cans $2.90. Morgan Solid-Pack; those good red ' ripe Utah Tomatoes, per case 24 cans $3-90. These prices are less than the present wholesale any place in the northwest... We advise buy-ing a very liberal .supply as you are sure to pay 40 per cent more.ior this same grade "of tomatoes. Lilly otthe Valley Tiny Sweet Peas per can 25c; per doz. $2.80; per case 24 cans $5.25. Lilly of the Valley Peas are. the very highest grade of peas - sold in this market. . " Royal Club Tender melting Wisconsin Peas, per can, 22c; per doz. $2.40 per case $4.50. Del Monte Extra Sugar Peas, per can 20c; per doz. $2.25;. per case $4.10. Montana Tender Sweet Peas, per can 15c; doz. $1.65; case $3.15 Peaches Apricots Pineapple Every Day Prices Breakfast Foods Kellogg's Corn Flakes, ,.........:10c, 3 for 29c Post Toasties ...... 10c, 3 for 29c Alber's Oats, large pkg 26c, 2 for 49c 10 lb sk 47c, 2 for92c Crown Oats, pkg 26c 2 for 49c Roman Meal .. 35c Shredded Wheat 10c Kellogg's Bran .... 22c Ralston's Bran 17c Puffed Wheat, 2 for 23c Corvallis Albany- Woodburn ! Two Stores Salem Mail orders to nearest store Phone C. O. D. orders 1 86 State St. at Commercial 198 Commercial St. at Chemeketa ..25c . 95c Del Monte large can yellow Peaches, per can, 30c; per doz- $3.50; per case 24 cans $6.90. Del Monte medium cans yellow Peaches per can, 25c; doz. $2.85; per case 24 cans $5.50. Del Monte small yellow Peaches per can, 20c; per doz. $2.15; per case 24 cans $4.10, Robles Peaches, large cans, per can, 23c; per doz. $2.40; per case 24 cans $4.40. Lodi Calif ornia Peaches, per can, 23c; per doz. $2.40; per case 24 cans $4.50. Del Monte.. Apricots, large can, per can, 37c; per doz- $3.90; per case 24 cans $7.50. - Del Monte Sliced large cans, 35c; doz. $3.89; case 24 cans $7.60. Rosedale Sliced, large cans, 32c; doz. $3.60; case 24 cans $7.00 Crystal White Soap --5c 22 for $1-00 Per case . P. & G. Naptha Soap, 4 for . 25c 20 for. $l- Clean Easy, 6 for ..... 25c Sno Lite, the floating Laundry Soap, 6 for 25c; 25 bar3 $1-00 Large pkg. citrus .25e 4 for . 93c Light House Washing Powder, the most for the money, -4 for
