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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1922)
PAGE TEN PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON LapitajJournal Salem, Oregon. An Independent Newspaper, Published every erenlnf eicept Sunday PANTOMIME By J. H. Striebel Telephone 81; news tt GEORGE PUTNAM,' Editor and Publisher State Highways Commenting upon the state highways of California, the San Francisco Bulletin says: "They smeared the landscape with a thin streak of cement, coated with a thin veneer of asphalt, It looks impressive, but much of it lasted only long enough to take photographs of the new roadways and to make local newspaper stories. In a very little time, with compantively little traffic, whole stretches of highway proved almost worthless." It is true that many of the California highways have gone to pieces and have had to be rebuilt. There are several rea sons, the principal being that California was a pioneer in paved highways and methods had not become standardized, and many of the roads were experimental; the rapid increase and development of motor traffic, including the use of high ways for huge auto stages and trucks and trailers, subjecting the roads to a pressure and pounding unforseen at the time of their construction and the political necessity of making a little money build many miles of highways, and therefore pleasing many sections. ... The paved highway is a comparitively new thing and still In the experimental stage. Many of the highways built, not onlv in California, but in Oresron and other states, are bound to be destroyed by a heavy traffic they were not built to stand. When macadam roads were built, no one foresaw the invention of the motor vehicle as a destroying agency and the millions spent in their construction were largely wasted When the hard surfaced road was first built none saw that it was to be used as a free right of way at public expense to compete with railroads. Consequently when traffic for which a ten inch pavement is needed to sustain is put upon a four inch pavement, the latter soon crumbles. Oregon has had the advantage of California's mistakes as well as its own experimentation. It is only nine years since the first paved road in the state was constructed. Highways now being build are much more massive and permanent than those first constructed. There may have1 been waste but there has. never been a substantiated scandal in highway construction in either state. Oregon's highway system has attracted the praise of the nation and is now nearest to being standardized of those of any state, according to federal authority. Charges made during the recent election campaign were purely political and cannot be substantiated as is well known by those making them. It would be a shame to let the state highway system be come' the spoils of politics. Taxpayers Lethargy The budget for the Salem school district for 1922-3, amounting to $243,250 adopted at a taxpayers meeting last night attended by two taxpayers. One of them presided and the other moved the adoption of the budget as prepared by the school board. This attendance is characteristic of the interest shown by taxpayers in their own affairs. When it comes to paying the taxes levied last night, there will be a loud wail from those too indifferent to even discuss the Jevy in advance. If taxation is excessive, it is the people themselves that are to blame. Their indifference to public affairs is pro verbial. They will blithely vote all kinds of bond issues and expenditures and then recall the officials in charge of public business because taxes are high. And usually the ones who howl the loudest pay the least, but are silent when the tax levy is fixed the only time it does any good to kick. There will soon be a taxpayers meeting to pass upon the budget for county expenditures. It will receive about the same amount of attention that the school budget did and yet about the first of April when the tax payments are due for the expenditures now authorized, the old familiar dispairing lament from the taxpayer and the customary denunciation of official extra vagence will be loud in the land. The public has developed a strong penchant for regulating! the other fellows' business, but when it comes to regulating its own, is strangely apathetic. ' i I I o ImJ nl hi 545 The Regeneration of Malcolm Starmount By Idah McGlone Gibson. CORN SHOW OPEN LI WITH SP 1ID EXHIBITS SHOWN The Marlon and Polk county corn show is now officially open for in spection by the public, as at 2 o' clock this afternoon an address of welcome was delivered by Mayor- elect Geise followed by a general talk on the possibilities of corn pro duction In the -valley, by rror, Oeorge Hyslop, of the Oregon Agri cultural eolleee. Exhibits numbering 147 hare been entered with a majority of exhibit' org preferring to enter exhibits of yellow dent corn. Independence growers, who were successful with the- Independence corn show held last montn, nave placed 22 exhibits and from Mon mouth alone, 10 exhibits are com peting for the cash prizes. . It is the plan of those in charge of the corn show to present a short program each afternoon at 2 o clock, clsing with a general program includ ing a community sing on eaturday Liberty leavine Today Alice Brady in her stage success, ''Anna Ascends,'' a very fine program. Oregon ''THE SIN FLOOD" with HELENB CHADWICK and RICHARD DIX Bligh Hickman Bessey Co., pre sents "Mother O'Mlne." Chic Sale in "His Nibs." Grand Cominar Tomorrow Matinee and Night Edna Wallace Hopper in person. The 63 year young woman. Also the big suc cess, "Remembrance." DAUGHTER OF SLAIN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. 19 CIRCUS MB CALLED Mount Holly, N. J., Deo. 14. Hazel Brunen, the 17-year-old daughter of John T. Brunen, cir cus owner, who created a sensa tlon yesterday testifying against Mrs. Doris Brunen and Harry C Mohr, charged With plotting the death of her father, was on the witness stand today. She was cross examined by Walter Keown, counsel for defense. She revealed the story of lfer elopement with William Parkstrom, the lion tamer ami how her stepmother, Mrs, Doris Brunen, had sided with her against her father. When the trial was resumed to day Mrs. Harry C. Mohr, who created a stir yesterday by crying out . to Hazel, "I'll smack you dead," was permitted to sit In the court room again, but before be ing allowed to enter she was searched for weapons. APPROPRIATION APPROVED Washington, Dec' 14. After little more than an hour's consid eration the senate today passed the second annual appropriation bill of the present session, that for the state and justice departments. It carried about $33,500,000. COUGH ALL NIGHT? Are you kept awake at night with-that annoy, ing coughthat irri tating tickle in your throat? Then keep I bottle of BINZ Bron-chi-Lyptus by y.our bed and take just a sip when the cough both, ers you. You'll be asleep before you know it and your cough will be relieved. "NIP IT IN THE BUD WITH BINZ PRODUCTS" TRY YOUR DRUGGIST FIRST dlong State Street Men usually get their pull from their own push. ; Women who remember shop signa and trade marks make good wives- The beauty of the modern girl appears to be very much on the surface. Some folks get a reputation for patience by being too jiarn lazy to move. ' The more worthless a man is the easier it is for some women to marry him. Some people would never be heard of if it wasn't for the mistakes they make. The man who spends more than he earns robs someone else of his rightful share. Be cautious of the man who never made a mistake. There's a first time for everything. It is quite possible for some people to say just what they think without doing much talking. Many a girl who is only just "a little dear" before, often proves to be an expensive luxury after marriage. If a boy is said to be the living photograph of his father, is it right to call a girl the very phonograph of her mother ! The difference between the squaw of early times and the aquab of today lies in the way she puts on the paint. There was a time when some people believed the world owed them a living, now the world believes the United States eves it one. The Mind of a Boy Starmount, who had risen from the table, turned impatiently on hit friend. "Xot at all, Ted. In spite of all thia worry about Tennaut I am hap pior than I have ever" been in my life. That girl and her family, her at titude toward them and life is something clean and bright and beau tirul. I was growing to reel that we were all damned hypocrites and cowards, and then right before me in a place I never expected to bi I found. Mary. Why, just finding her, Ted, as I did in that stuff, store basement makes me feel though there is something in thi life of ours that is greater than our selves. "She is so different from env other woman I have ever known One moment she is a child, so inno ent that I cannot, think it is pos sible that she is 16 years old am must have seen sordidness and sin unspeakable down there in the slum And the next minute she is grown uj with the experience and wisdom of a woman of 35. Why, finding her Ted, was like finding a beautifu white, lotus blossom out beyond the gorgeous, blazing, poisonous flowers that grew on the border of the mo rasa the only kind I had ever known. "Hell, I'm growing maudlin But, Ted, inside of me I am earnest I am honest and I am trying to think straight for the first time in my life.". "You have never taken the middle 6f the road course, Mai. You have always pursued the byways with great enthusiasm, end now that you tell me that you have forsaken the primrose paths, I shall expect to sec you treading the road we call straight and narrow with the samf wholesouled enthusiasm with whicl you have been chasing rainbows." "That is all right, Ted. Do you really think that I am such a rotter that I never have a decent aspir-ationf 'On the contrary, Mai, I am yout friend. I think I am fonder of yoi than anyone else in the world. 1 know tht you have many decent aspirations and I am hoping tha this new departure of yours will lead you into something that 1 hnv always known. you could be that it will make you understand that thore is much more pleasure in real ly working than there is in merel; idling. "What did the doctors say of Mrs. Dovlint" "I didn't tell this to Mary, but the doctor telephoned me after they got back to the hospital that Mrs. Dev lin cannot live three months even with the greatest of care. One lung is entirely gone. They called me up to tell me something else and it wor ries me greatly. They tell me tha' Mary's lungs are in a very'bad con dition and that Eddie's are also af fected.' Living together in unventi- lated, rooms has nearly done the work. But they assure me that with the best of care and strict regime both Mary and Eddie will be brought back to health. I'm send ing them to the Adirondacks tomor row m my car. I n going to send Miss Jeffries along to take care of the two children and have who ever nurses are necessary for Mrs. Devlin." "Will they allow Miss Jeffries there, Malf" Yes. 1 asked the doctors that, for Mary has seemed to take such a Another indication that we are living too fast is the ap pearance of a disease, called "limousine foot," caused by step ping on the accelerator. Liver and Bowels Eight Always Feel Fine There's one right way to speedily tone op the liver ana Keep jjfv me Dowejs regular. ... " Cartel Utile ffJBf Cp'C Liver PUls never ?fjiiiJ5P fail. MUltoM niTTLG will testify A jf I VE It that there to i 11131! I 3 nothing so rood for bil- iousness, indigestion, headache or sJ- Hmply skin. Purely resreTsiMa, riUSmaU Oom&iu1 Price fancy to her that I wanted the nurse to be with her .if possible. Miss Jeffries was sent out from the ubercular hospital in town and I am tending them to the camp that is at rached to this hospital." "I am glad that you have decid ed upon that, Mai. It will give us a ehance to clear up this other mess. " 'Mess' is right. Do you know, Ted, I sometimes wonder just why we go along in this world riding for a fall. We are more or less cou- Jtious which way we are tending, but we tel ourselves -that we will probably miss it somehow and we decide not to worry about it. "That old saw about not crossing your bridges until you got to them works both ways. You should know .vhether there really is a bridge or :f you're likely to drop into the mid lie of the stream by not finding out .vhat is the matter with it before itarting to cross. "I never cared a hang for Nnlda Jourtoney, but I wanted something o do, and i got into the way of aking her with me. As far as Nal la herself was concerned, she really meant nothing to me. ''If her face had become disfigur 3d, or her form crippled, she would have become positively disgusting to me. But 1 liked to. possess her in the jyes of the world. .1 lilted to exploit tier beauty hung with jewels bought with my money. I liked to feel that uon were envying me. What petty, sordid ambition it all was. Yet I am not sure I'll never do any thing of the kind again. I know 1 am no saint. I was thinking, when I was out there swimming with those children hat I was not even decent and respectable member of society, have done nothing in the world to help anyone along except to spond he money my great grandfather worked hard for and my gradfather and my father conserved. Then .isually epsnt it for some unworthy hing and only some undeserving nan or woman profited. "Do you know, Ted, that never n my life have I come in contact .vith the mind of a boy 1 1 know now hat I never had the mind of ooy mysolf. I was always grown up. "Do you suppose that, now, when am a man, I might get back some eal boynh ideals and work it out ill over again!" Tomorrow Setting His House in )rder. mmi, i j . li i.,P -m.'luni.)yi4.MiJ'iJ III pw wm'.ww.w 1 1 jui i.i .! ui 2 mJL TORY ASKS FOR FURTHER RELIEF Washington, Dec. 14. Another agricultural relief bill was added o those pending - In the senate when Senator McNary, republican of Oregon introduced a bill to ex tend for one year or until June 30 1924, the powers of the war fi nance corporation to make faun and livestock loans. The bill which, was referred to the finance ommlttee, also would extend un til January 31, .1927, the author ity of the corporation to Issue notes and bonds. Dr. BELLS I Pine-Tar Honey J 1 Hi:k'e?s Coughs and Colds Whtn th famous blixxard of "88H caotttd o much Buffering, Dr. Bell's Pin-Tar Honey brought rc-litf to. thoBMRd. Today, tt t th same genutn ptna-tar arrup, compounded from th de pendable prescription an old family phy tciao. Thia rcUabla ayrup atcpi cough, ootha irHtatrd tlituM and raliava coo Mtton, ChiUron take it raaJtly bocauae o ha olaaaant taato. At all dru atocaa. TrtfiSt wi Dn.BSit'S. Looks Like a Royal Audience BUT OP are actually before the Hong Kong Chief of Police No adventure you ever read or heard of holds so many hearty laughs as the uproarious round-the-world trip of Jiggs, Maggie and all the other famous comic characters in nil gmgUi Father By GEORGE McMANTJS Newspaper readers in every corner of the civilized earth are enjoying the hilarious hap- Jiggs as presented by George You can see this piece of fun penings to McManus ONLY in The Capital Journa
