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CapitalJlJournal
Salem. Oregon
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GEORGE PUTNAM.
Business Propositions
No measurc-s before the'lcgislature would accomplish more
In the way of economy than those placing all commisjioiis
and bureaus under the budget commission and turning
receipts above budgeted expenditures into the general fund.
At present it keeps the commissions busy figuring out
ways to spend the constantly increasing receipts, for which
no accounting is required, other than the commission's own
audit. This is done by enlarging fields of operation and
employing more tax-eaters, and raising salaries of employes.
There is no reason why the Industrial Accident commis
sion, the Fish commission, the Game commission, and all the
Dther boards should not be placed upon the same business
iasis that governs the institutions, and the commissioners
be made to demonstrate their need and use of moneys
received and held down to actual necessities.
Another practical method to cut down the cost of govern
ment is the abolition of all special forces of law enforcement.
The prohibition laws, the highway laws and the game laws
should all be left with the sheriffs, constables and police, the
regularly constituted law enforcement agencies, who are on
the payroll anyway and might
All the 8ecial forces do is to build up political machines
and spend the tax-payers money in the employment of scores
of superfluous tax-eaters. They handicap the regular of
ficials by dividing authority, scatter responsibility and need
lessly increase expenditures. "
Consolidation of state bureaus is another means of simpli
Tying government and reducing expenses. The bills intro
duced providing special commissions to investigate and report
to the legislature are simply evasions of the issue.
Commissions for this purpose have been appointed, con
ducted their investigations and reported their recommenda
tions for the past ten years, only to have them thrown into
the waste basket and another commission named for another
report.
There is ample data at hand, other states, such as Illinois,
'.daho and Washington, have shown the way, the subject has
jeon thoroughly discussed, and there is no reason why the
'egislature should not act. The way to consolidate, is to con
lolidatc and not beat around the bush to keep political spoils.
These are all simple business propositions that any busi
ness man or corporation would adopt in the management of
affairs and there is no reason why the legislature should not
put them into force, instead of wasting its time in the making
of countless new and unnecded laws that only make for con
fusion in a law oppressed state, and benefit only the lawyers.
The Veil Again
Dispatches convey the information that since publication
f Dowager Queen Alexandria's photo showing her majesty
voaring a veil with her toque, manufacturers have noticed a
lecided demand for expensive chenile veiling and fashion
experts foreshadow that all fashionable women will be veiled
this spring. "The new veils are fine, covering only the eyes.
The me.-h and pattern are made to add lustre and mystery to
beautiful or even ordinary eyes. Some have an eyelash pat
tern on a plain net nnd make the wearer look like one of the
latest French dolls a damsel mostly cuffieure and
ly 'ashes."
All of which is interesting as showing how fashions
originaate. That is the principal function of royalty today,
now that it has outlived its usefulness in government, to
preside at functions and set fashions, in which it has only
the competitiin of the demimonde of Paris.
No matter how a fashion starts, and few are interested in
Ihe origin, no matter how inconvenient or absurd, it is slav
ishly copied, under stimulus of manufacturers and merchants,
until it reaches the rank nnd file, by which time the upper
circles have discarded it for something new and another
ityle is inaugurated.
Veils are about as useless an appendage as could be
Imagined, but let us thank the stars that the royal decree is
not for the hoop skirt, the bustle or the wasp waist, that have
)o frequently deformed feniininty and defaced beauty.
15ANK CODE
INTRODUCED
KY KUTLER
(Continued from Page One)
be filled by authority from whl.h
the orinin:il appointment 1st tie.
in the appointment of any official
In thi employment of (tie commit
ion, or In the (let erin Unit inn of any
permanent poll, y, the approval of
four-fiiihii ,if the eommbslon
voulil b-s !Tiuin-iI.
riut.'ruromul ater
Appllcitl.in foi authority to ap
propi i.ito limb i t:i o-.n.il water
coul.l be filed with a ml p.is .1 up
on by the !:ite em;meei Ink di-p.nt-men,
m the jtime maimer mu mii--f;u
v. iters nre now ailmlntntmed.
under a bill Introdiiei-d hi the Hen
ate toibiy by Senator lals.
Curry ronnly will have ft conn
ty court sesNinii mi the Iirt Judi
cial day of January nnd on the
flint Wedmv-day of other momliH.
lud heeler county will have a
ielii,t of the county court onee a
month under a bill by Senator Hull
tli fit pained the netiNtu today.
Wheeler county w.ih not otlniimlly
In the bill but It wrnt amended to
Include that county when the iium
ire can e up fur final pansar.c.
CLEAVER LETTERS
POUR IN AT RATE
OF FIFTY A DAY
(Continued from Pane One
goes, was seut to Eugene by ('U,i
T and the governor to evl
flenc of misconduct In olfire on
the part of Johnson and, wliil
tht evidrnc was not secured, the
plsude was tot cauae of a lively
tilt between tne governor and
Johneon in a aoMinn In the execu
live offices several monthi axo.
Johnson la due to return to Si
lent about 1 o'clock thta afternoon
and will testify immediately be
fore the committee, with all of tur
ncwi lil
Editor end Publisher
as well earn their salaries.
newspapermen present.
Today there are persistent re
ports about the cupltol that tlir
ahertfts. now In Buaskm lu JNjrt.
land. are eouklns; up a lot of t rou
ble for the prohibition commld
?toner, and that the idjouriimuit
of their Reunion will be the sinu!
for a Ki'itcal exodus Swlemward
Some inkling of what may bet x
pected from the sheriffs twit
.leaned ho m the wrath of tutu
Slarmer, vet emu Dough couuly
Iter iff . who called upon Senater
Kddy, one of the probers, yester
day ufteriuioti. lira nd irhin s
ropy of Cleaver's report ou arietfU.
coutirlions an.' fines hi his l.nui
Sheriff Starnier tUvland It to be
"padded. faUe uiiil unfair." Starsi
er w ill prese nt hts ide of Hie nut
ter to Ihe coimnittee In willing.
Kepoi Ih also ulso drift itiR in
that the district ntlonieys of the
stale are chock ins t'le iver'a re
port chisely us it pertains to th 'ir
own counties and that tho resti'ts
of Ihis eheck will be milimitteJ fit
documentary form, together with
data on specific Instances, of
flagrant "bohlilea nindo by the
prohibition forces. Particular In
terest 1h beins manifest In the con
tent of a report which. It Is sil-l.
will be tort'icomtiiR from Cla'aop
county.
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By IDAII McGLONE GIBSON j
IS TIIK SH VDOWS
'Doctor." aald Dick Starnionnt,
"when I rode past your parage to
day X saw a detective talking to
the manager. He was probably try
inc to find out if whai I had said
you had told nie was true."
Hastily Starmount ran over
what he had said at the Insert
for the benefit of the doctor.
When he had finished the physi
cian nodded his head.
"That ia all right. The man was
short and thick-set. and I really
thought he was crazy to be out in
that rain without an umbrella.
"I am going back to the gaiago
now, and If I find that sleuth there
Z shall tell him you reepated the
conversation exactly."
"How long have you had an of
offlce In the village, doctor?"
"For eight years. Even since I
came out of college."
"Do you have many patlenU
with tuberculosis?"
"My women patients can be di
vided Into two clause thoee who
have tuberculosis and those who
have babie.
"There are a lot of girls down
here who are virtually hiding out.
They literally die In swarms from
undernourishment and cold, but
they are too proud to tell anyone
their plight. J have a half dozen
right now who will be dead In sii
months. Some of them are so pret
ty and pltable that It breaks my
heart every time they come In for
a bottle of couko medicine."
"Are you coming back here
again tonight, doctor?"
"Yes. about 7 o'clock."
"I'll meet you here about that
time. Yoult probably hear a lot
of gossip among your patients to
day, and If you find the slightest
clue which niit;ht give us a chance
at finding the man who killed Kow
you will do as much for ua as you
are doing for MU Leonr.rd. 1 ex
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Marriage
pect Mr. Evans Is with his wife?"
"Yes; hit cxme in Ju before you
did. He did not hear my contro
versy with the police. I don't
want to worry him any more thin
it necessary. Poor old chap, r
keeps a-sUtng Mrs. Kvnns is she
knows him when she doesn't know
anything."
"Then she is no better, do t..r.
"She has the same pub-e, hut h iif
a degree more tenperaiure than
when we left her studio this morn
ing, l.'ulese there 1a a chauae for
the b.ater tonight. I don't think
there is a chance fnr her."
"Do you think 1 can get Itod
away from her for a minute?"
"I wish you would try to do so.
I think hia constant talking to lu-r
is bad. Keep him away liom her
as ion; as possible and Impress it
upon hia mind when he goes back
he U not to talk."
Rod just hook his head when
Tick appeared at his wife's door.
The nurse told him that Mr. Star
mount said It was of the utmost
importance to the welfare of his
wife that Mr. Evans should go Into
the hall to see him.
"What do you want with me?"
he naked belligerently. "Kathlyn b
going to die. What tluse police
say or do won't make any differ
ence to her. The only thing that
I can do for her now ia to stay
with her every minute she Is alive."
"You can do her no good. Itod.
She docs not know you are theie."
"Cut, Dick, you nor no one else
seems ta understand that he may
become conscious and then 1 want
to be there I want to tell her
that I didn't mean anything I said
when we quarrelc-; an -J I left her
to so to the theatre, I want to
ask her forgiveness."
"Jii you quarrel with Kathlyn
earlier In the evenlni;''"
"Yes, we quarreled about tint
around ret Fosj. The man who
WHAT-S THE
Matter with
VoJ- AlN You
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TibU 1 COMS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1925
wrote that anonymous letter was
rteht; be deserved bia fate.
-Hod, yon must not talk like
that to anyone but n. It will ba
used against you."
"U na do I oars what la need
acainst me? All I am concerned
about Is whit la being used and
will be ued against her. I tell
you, Dick, this whole terrible city
could be swallowed up and I
would gladly ea It sink out of
sluht it in return I would know
hat fate had given life and happt.
mws back to Kathlyn."
Tell me a littlo mora about
what you did last nlKht, Hod."
"Well, you see, at firt 1 thought
I would not go back after the show
Thank 'Jod I did. Tint la one
thins I have to thank Him for. If
I Iia i not ;nnc Kathlyn would have
been found alone beside the body.
She could not have escaped sus
picion. Dick, do you think for a
moment that it might have been
that short, thick-set ninn? Very
lew men go plodding through the
rain at that time of night unless
they are on some particular busl-
il'.SS."
"Rod. It is your heart that Is
pro pine; around for someone upon
whom to place suspicion. That man
was probably some foolieh lover
who was going home from his
sweetheart's and he was saying all
the while to himxelf, 'It la not rain
to me; It's raining daffodils or
some other fooll.sh thing like that.
"However, after I leave here I
am going to talk to Kirby, of The
World. I have a great respect for
him as an unraveller of crime prob
lems. I have known him a great
nany years and during that time
he has solved more mysteries than
r.ny two detectives at central sta
tion. I have been wondering all
day why he has not been around.
Usually he's the first one on the
scene on a case like this.
"You say that you and Kathlyn
fjuarreled. Can you tell me just
what It was all about?"
Tomorrow The Act-using Finger
Those wlio keep their
will never lone our trust.
word
I?v George McManus
By Billy de Beck
By Hcrriman
Bv Bud Fisher
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