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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, . SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922 Capitaioournal SleravOrgoa An Independent Newspaper, Published erery erenlnf except Son da? Telephone II; neiri gj GEORGB PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher The Same Old Machine The eastern Oregon tail is again wagging the Oregon dog. With a unity of purpose worthy of a better cause than sectionalism, the seven eastern Oregon senators in the east ern Oregon bloc have ratified the Klan choice for president of the senate because he is an eastern Oregon man, so that eastern Oregon will have the governor, and the president of the senate, who is really the lieutenant governor, as well as what it desires m the house organization. Eastern Oregon is enabled to get what it wants in offices and legislation be cause it is united, while western Oregon is hopelessly divided. For years the legislature has been dominated by a com bination of the eastern Oregon and the Multnomah delega tions, which- together had a maority and dictated legisla tion. The only break between the two factiQns occurred over the 1925 exposition bill in the special session of. 1921. Moser has led the Multnomah machine in the senate and Kubli in the house and both will lead it in the coming session. It is Moser's vote that will elect Upton and the same old bosses are on the same old job. On the face of it this seems a klan victory with the klan choice in the governorship and at the head of both branches of the legislature. But as a matter of fact, it is a victory for the same old political ring that has been running af fairs for many years. The klan has the shadow, and the politicians the substance. Indeed it is becoming more ap parent that the issue of fanaticism was raised as a smoke screen to fool the people while the professional politicians se cured the spoils. The klan having served a useful purpose is to be cast aside for it is disintegrating in Oregon as rapidly as it grew, fulfulling the law of nature that mushroom growths are short lived. Yet there are things about this organization of slanted minds in slanted hood3 to be commended, as set forth by Hey wood Broun, the author, who declares The formation of the Ku Klux Klan seems to us a happy develop ment In American life. Before the birth of this organization the business of bating was difficult. There was no single group which Included all the illiberal elements in America. But now they are all together. We do not understand Just what common bond fuses these divergent tactions bigots, patrioteers, prohibitionists, hell-fire reachers, southern gentlemen, bullies, braggarts, busybodies, censors but there they are. For the first time in the history of our country the fact has been established that cussedness is not a local Issue. PANTOMIME By J. H. Striebel "Secretary Of Oil" "Secretary of Oil" is the title given to Secretary of St-ate Hughes by the New York World which calls attention to the fact that under Mr. Hughes the state department is only in terested in foreign affairs when there are oil fields involved There is much io back up the charge. The discovery of oil and the concessions of the Standard Oil Co., caused Mr, Hughes to demand that congress pass the treaty with Col umbia which had been held up for years in the senate, and party leaders reversed themselves and passed it. Then there Is the refusal to recognize the Obregon government in Mexi co and the demand that Mexico change her constitution in order to protect American oil concessions. Mr. Hughes' only interest in Mesopotamia was in behalf of oil interests and led to his demand that Americans be given equal chance in the oil fields. At present his only interest in Turkey and the near east is in securing from Angora for the Standard Oil rights in the Mosul fields now controlled by the British As the World says : Mr. Hughes manages to bear up pretty well in the face of European misery. He has a supply of good reasons always on hand why America can not become entangled in the problems of the civilized world. He is quite able to contemplate the losses to American agrl culture and business, which are due to the financial crisis in Europe He Is able to confine his sympathies with the Near Eastern religious minorities to the ferocious speech at Boston designed to help Henry Cabot Lodge's campaign. For be is perfectly ready to argue that the fundamental American foreign policy is to have no foreign policy. But when there is oil in sight a whole new set of principles arise at once in Mr. Hughes's mind. He won't discuss world finance with Europe, because that would be meddling. But he will discuss oil with anybody anywhere at any time. For the oil question the At lantic and the Tactile Oceans do not exist. On oil and on oil alone Mr. Hughes does not believe in Isolation. Where oil gushes, there II r. Hughes's diplomatists are Instructed to act. Where oil flows, there are no Republican prejudices against foreign complications. In the great International race for oil Mr. Hughes Is able to forget the irreconcilablea. They can dictate all of the foreign policy of the Administration except its oil policy. If only oil would begin tot gush In Geneva, how quickly Mr. Hughes would go there! If only there were an oil field on the Rhine, how prophetically Mr. Hughes would see the peril to civilization! dlong State Street "Be sure you're right," and then be unpopular. It costs nothing to think, so long as you. don't think out loud. The poor are always with us except when they are out In their flivvers. The hard thing about saving a dollar is that you have to keep on doing it. The only way to enjoy life is to hide your troubles, and then forget where you put them. The human voice is produced by 44 muscles, but the tongue carries the burden of the job. - Married men will tell you that the easiest and best way to manage a woman is her own way. The Regeneration of Malcolm Starmount By Idah McOlone Gibson. Some men who make hay while the sun shines may hesi tate to tell what they do when it rains. Electricity will never put gas entirely out of business as long as we continue to have political campaigns. Ladies of fashion will be happy when the short skirt re turns. They can cut their long ones in two and Bave the dif ference. , ; Although a woman's attire may be highly praised by men, another woman will always know what the outfit cost t own to the last trading stamp. The Doctor's Opinion "Mary, you'muatu't talk of me that way. I am only a weak, and some would ssy a very wicked, man. my dear. Before you have been here very Ions someone will tell you all my shortcomings." "Am I going to stay here long I' For answer Starmount squeezed the little hand so confidingly dup ed in his. "No matter how long I stay, my Lord, no one shall ever say any thing to me about you that is "Sot good. ''Oh, Mary, sister. Come here! am frightened! The nurse says that the 'doctors are coming to look at me and she thinks they will put my feet on straight again." Eddie came clumping down the hallway. He had heard Mary's voice but oed not realized that Starmount was trith her. Upon seeing him t'ae boy shrunk up beside the wall as thpugh afraid that perhaps he had done something wrong by calling to hi sister. "Don't you worry, my Ijoy, it ma, hurt you a little but you are going to be brave and see it through Maybe we'll have you walking lik other boys some day. "I'd almost die if I could ?e like other boys," answered little Eddie confidingly as he took hold of Star- mount's other hand. With a child on each Bide of him Malcolm Starmount felt for the first time in his life that two peopl really loved him, two people Teally trusted him. He bent down and pick ed up the little, wizened form of the boy and kissed him and with the boy in his arms, Mary and he walked into the wing-suite. As they reached the door. a ser vant announced a noted diagnosti cian and two celebrated surgeons Starmount felt Eddie trembling but he gave him a reassuring car ess. "Send thera in, Benson," and with Eddie on his lap, and Mary stand ing beside him, he welcomed the physicians. I have called you, he said, "to examine the mother of these two children. The nurse seems to think that she shows symptoms of tuber culosis. I also want your opinion about this boy.' ' ''Do you think you will have to saw them off before you turn them around I Inquired a childish voice And will t hnrt mnchf" The younger of the doctors pick ed Eddie up in his arms. "I've got a little boy, laddie, who used to have feet just like yours. We turned them right around with out hurting him very much. He only bad to wear a brace for a, long, long time. Von run and play, laddie while we go and x'e mother." Tho doctor watched the child very closely as he hobbled out the door way and walked down toward the beach. After a thorough examination of Mrs. Devlin the doctors returned to the sitting room. Mary," said Starmount, "I don't see tddie. Will you find him, please! "It isn't necessary, my Lord, to send me away. I want to know a!l bout mother." Her penetration surprised Star- mount. It was one of the times when Mary Devlin seemed to have shed ail her childishness and become a woman Jft whose soul tragedy had worked more havoc than time. The diognosticiaa looked at Sta.- niount inquiringly. Starmount nod ded his head. . ''Mrs. Devlin," he said, "haj onlv short time to live as wn count years, but with great ear-., with which I anticipate you cau aa I wi.l surronnd her, Hi may have a very comfortable existence for many months, possibly years. "Of course, you. nnderstani that' she cannot live in this rlima'e and I advise her being sent to the Adiron dack immediately. We xi!l build her np little so that she -an be the moith ! sent by the end of think." It seemed to Starmount that he could fairly feel Mary Devlin's heait heat. Bight down at the base of her throat where her shabby dres. fell away a little there waj a flut tering, a fluttering that gave him an irrestible desire to press his lips against it, as a mother would kis a hurt to make it well. "I don't think I don't taluk wo can go, doctor. It would cost a great deal of money wouldn',t itf" "Money doesn't mean anything, Mary, dear. Just as soon as your mother is able we will send yon and her to the Adirondacks and perhaps by the time you come back Eddie's feet may ba turned around again. "Do you think, doctor, that we had better have another nurse. If you think if would be better we will send her up immediately. I can have my car fitted up foran invalid." "And would you corns too, my Lordf" asked Mary. 'Very often, my dear." At this moment the-doctor who had been watching Mary carefully interrupted to say: "Come over her and le't me look at you." After a slight examination-in which he thumped her lungs -and lis tened to her heart, he turned to Starmount and said: "The Adiron dacks will be' the best thing id the world for this young lady. "Oh, you don't know what lovely food they have here, doctor. I don't need to leave my Lord to get enough to eat. "But you will have to go with your mother, Mary, and I will come up and see how you both are getting along, very often." "And Mr. Sather can go with us. can he notl woman t you rather have your friend, Pat Mulcahyt" "I want Pat to stay with you, my lord. I want to know that some one's here protecting yon as long as I can't be here to do it." ,. There was a general laugh, as the doctors left. (Continued tomorrow) FIRE DESTROYS HEART OF ASTORIA (Continued from Page One.) Commercial street, burning the piling on Which the city had been built, and firemen, were unable to cope with this development. Patients were removed from St. Mary's hospital, all the windows of which were shattered by explos ions of dvnamite or easoline tanks. The Astoria As- torian, occupying a new building on Commercial street, a distance from the devasted area, began mov ing out at 8 o'clock. The Astorian's building is con crete but sparks were threatening the roof. Loss Is Millions W. A. Tvler. president of the Astoria National bank, after surveying the ruins, said the monetary loss would run between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. The fire was discovered in the Palace restaurant on Commercial street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, in the heart of the business district, and it auicklv sraread to adioininsr buildings, leaping across the street to the Beehive department store. It spread from Commercial street to Bond street lire Fighters Hampered The local fire department was hampered by lack of sufficient .water pressure and apparatus and a call was sent at 3:23 for aid from Portland, in res ponse to this appeal a special train with two fire com panies and full equipment, including 4,000 feet of hose arrived here at 4 a. m. Dynamiting was resorted to but this failed to check the sweep of the flames. Most of the buildings destroyed were frame, but the city's most substantial structures, of brick, were also among those razed The brick buildings wreck ed were the Astoria Savings bank, four stories; Weinhard hotel, six stories; the Astoria Budget, Elks Temple; Astoria National bank, Staples Motor com pany, Sovey Motor company and bkallrud dry goods store. . The fire at 10:15 had crossed fire had stopped across the street Sixteenth street at Commercial from the city ball and that build- street, where a determined effort . ing appeared to be safe. GILBERT WILL FILED HERE FOR PROBATE was being made to stop it at the Astoria Business college build ing. Tba fire at that time had swwept through the concrete building of The Astorian. The fire was expected to burn Itself out at the east end because few buildings remained In its path In that direction. At the west it bad stopped at Eighth street. At the north the flames had been stopped by the main line of the Spokane, Port land and Seattle railway, along the river front. Old Residences Burned At the south the general line of the fire was along Exchange street, except between Eleventh and Twelfth, where it had reach ed as far as Franklin street. Some of the older residences of the city wewre destroyed in 'the area al ready swept, but the main -residence district on the high ground was not menaced at 10 o'clock. The police were making an ef fort to patrol the fire swept dis trict. There were some reports of looting. There were rumors of persons being injured, but no turther deaths had been reported up to 10 o'clock. Plan for Belief A meeting of business men was called at the Episcopal church to plan relief and reconstruction work. Buildings in tba vicinity of the city ball were dynamited to check the flames there and windows of the city hall were shattered. The Rain, was falling when the fire broke out and there was no wind. The rain stopped after about two hours, but resumed after an Inter mission of half an hour. Guests at the Hotels In the fire swept area were warned in time to escape In safety, according to re ports to fire fighters. The fire at 9 o'clock had swept the entire'district between Astor street at the riverfront south to Exchange street, and north and south between Eighth and Slx teenth streets. Between Eleventh and Twelfth it had penetrated as far as Franklin street Got Out of Control Fire Chief C E. Foster said the fire got out of control because the flames got hold underneath the buildings, and burned through the piling on which the city was built He said the fact that the piling had not been filled in as the city was built was the cause of the dis aster. All the streets in the devastated area have collapsed with the burning of the piling. All the docks were saved. One Life lost. One life was lost In the fire, ac cording to reports available at 8 o'clock. Norrls Staples, automo bile dealer and president of the Astoria Bank of Commerce, drop ped dead. . Two other business men were missing and believed dead were later accounted for. patch received by the United States naval radio station at Br em erton, Wash., dated from Astoria, Or., at 9 a. m., said: "The fir Is extremely out of control and fanned by a westerly breeze, is sweeping rapidly over the unburned area. Several deaths and numerous Injuries have re sulted from the conflagration and dynamiting Is being resorted to In an effort to check the flames. The entire city is in Imminent danger of destruction." FILLING STAT ON L EASE IS 10 E The Union Oil company of Cal ifornia has leased for s term of five years, from T. B. Jones, the property on the corner of north Commercial and. Center street. According to the terms of the lease, wnich was filed for record this morning, the oil company agrees to pay $125 a month rent for the first year, and $150 month for the remaining five years of the lease, payable month ly in advanco. The two story frame house on the lot Is noww being removed, as the lease provides that the lot shall be cleared by Jan. 1, 1923. The Union OH company will erect a filling station on the corner. LITTLE WORKFOUND HERE There is but little work avail. able for idle men in Salem a he present time, according to Po lice Judge Earl Race, who con ducts the municipal employment bureau.- There are,' however; but few Salem residents without employ ment. Judge Race said. Most of the Jobless are transients who arc In the city for only a short time Several men are furnished free beds In the city Jail-each night. Marshiield Man Killed Marshfleld. Or.. Dec. 8. Frank E. Arnot was dead today from in juries received from a limb of a tree blown down by the storm raz ing In this district Wednesday. A barn was destroyed and a horse killed in the storm. Seattle, Wash., Dee; 8. A dls- I Alright 1 IJJ mild, vacetabla lantfra ta 1 rff nllm Conatipation sod BiU 1 wiom ud keap the dtgestir mot ; 1 Hminatlv functions normal. XhipsoffifewBJocIf rmv M JUNIORS- TV f pi Uttu Ms 11 PL l kjf One-third tha refu- 1 1 I Ti!JJrLf3 dote. Mid of f 1 " W a a m incradiaota, 1 then candy coatad. i , V For cbUdrwi and adnlta. f Daniel J. Fry The will of Sarah Roxana Gil bert, who died Oct. 8, 1922,, has been admitted to probate by the county court. The value of the estate is about $1800. In the wwill made Sept. 26 1914, Mrs. Gilbert bequeathed $5 to her daughter Alvleda Savage $5 to her son Ralph Gilbert and 150 to her grandson Red Gilbert. The remaining estate she willed to her five sons, share and share alike. In a codicil dated July 14, 1922 Mrs. Gilbert cancelled the $5 giv en to a son and daughter, and tho $50 to her grandson Fred Gil bert, as she had not heard from him for several years. After can celling the three .special bequests, the codicil provides that the en tire estate be divided share and share alike among the six sons and one daughter of Mrs. Gilbert Rome A new volcano was re ported on Mount Torretta, near Potenza. moo?G COUGH . JNO cure but helps to ra If duce parcoywn of couchino. Vapo Ruq V 1 1 m mi i I :, -i t Rrarji nut! A MAN and a girl and a box of Tan Jar sweetmeats -aWs well! IIJI tb pwMtd whfivw Ian aall coed caady. V2,n8 IkUiecoiatosir f j OrcionCfcerriwff! lis.1 I- THE LARGE CRISP NUT BROWN LOAF THAT TASTES BETTER THAN ORDINARY BREAD. IF YOU DONT USE BAKE-RITE YOU SHOULD TRY A LOAF TODAY. BAKE-RITE SANITARY BAKERY 457 State Street Phone 268 Auntie ClausSays "Santa will soon be here" When Grandma w . in tie girl folks usually made tneir presents themsel and if they didn't thev a heap of care in what were uuying. w ouian t yon rather eet a Dair of - WW warm blankets workpH triu your initial by someone yon loved than a gim-crack thai you a show off for a day and then forget forever' You take mv advice nd surprise your friends wift something that will bring tnem lasting pleasure. BLANKETS Buy a pair of our hand some all wool fluffy blan kets, we'll work a big init ial on them for a nominal charge and what a gift you'd have ! You'll like our blankets for they have been carefully selected from the biggest mills in America. Aristocratic patterns in im mense squares of lavender, blue, tan, pmk and grey. $9.00, $12.00 to $25:00 SILK SHIRTINGS Select your silk shirtings now and if you desire we will make them up for you, monogram the sleeves and do them up in Xmas boxes. Our selections of silk shirt ings were never better. The newest in shirtings are Pussy Willows. The best tub silks made. In platinum grey, pheasant tan and white, 40 inches wide at $3.50 yd. Imported pongee in super weight at $1.50 yd., lighter weights at $1.19 Other shirtings in beautiful qualities, stripes, brocades, etc. Priced $1.98 and $2.25, GIVE SCARFS Have you seen our Man- . . . ,i n a i.. i.L. tilla plush stoies.' aiso Mole? What a wonderful gift and a serviceable one thev would make. Rpaiir.ifnllv lined with rich lustrous silks, border ed with a deep fringe of jet black, these stoles are hand somely styled ana as an ar ticle of apparel are un- a 'JJA. -Jit 1 Tiff equalled ior gin Priced $11.98 to $28.75. . ROYAL SOCIETY ... T- 1 ?AtA- Make this a Koyai wuj ty Christmas by embroid- r 1 SnMptv nacK- age outfits, scarfs, pil'O cases, pillow tops, lingerie, doilie sets, table and to . nr. ra fia ems neaaquaners ,-. Royal Society. A model pieces at half price. : - Art UMBRELLAS , A new ioi, ,.at n iwent V thai fUrrf fnr ramv days. 1 "V::KAI are Frenv ana i . .1 Hoe loeuj tnese umwcu handles, wideselvege , edgj silk tops, yuaimra , will pniov riving. ?a-3D !t1 1 QS GIFTS FOR BABIES Choose from novelties. Our. infant J partmentisbnmfuofn: dam7( Too sweat Aschers 100 ,o wooi ers, stockings, .cap knitted ouuiw nnvelties. maupm dolls, e "Look at these Practice aa A llfrtl IaT Gifts says flaus "Why the most -PP""VE:- ft all. Good S wear, and articles be used everyday fg W rest of tfieywi sibl things w