THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1925
CapitalJtJournetl
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0E0H08 PUTNAM, Editor md Publisher
No Chance
With the legislative session but half over, some 658 bills
and resolutions have been introduced, 444 in the house and
214 in the senate. If the legislators would enact only one
half of one percent of these measures, the state would be
better off. .
While many of the bills provide new regulations to be
enforced by new boards and commissions and their salaried
employes thereby increasing direct or indirect taxation, there
is conspicious lack of any effort to consolidate and eliminate
superfluous and overlapping boards, and thereby reduce
taxation in fact all consolidation, even of the simplest com
monsense variety, has been abandoned to await another
report by another investigating committee to report to
another legislature.
Reason for failure to effect consolidation is easy to com
prehend. There is no sincere effort made for it, and no
leadership in its behalf, by governor or legislature. Every
state employe or commission menaced in actively lobbying
and log-rolling against interference. Most of the legislators
have lightning rods up for office or political perferment and
do nothing to antagonize persons or blocs, and, as most of the
boards have been created at the instance of blocs, no risk is
taken of offending them.
The direct primary law has destroyed responsible party
government in Oregon by demoralizing and disrupting the
parties, leaving only the labels. Without a platform of prin
ciples and without being pledged to constructive programs
without leadership worthy of the name, consolidation or real
reform of any kind, dies a 'bornin'. The ship of state will
cortinue to drift with a fresh load of barnacles added at every
session to impede progress.
More Pap
Governor Pierce has signed the bill authorizing the loan
of $1,500,000 of the bonus commission's securities to eastern
Oregon farmers to purchase wheat for reseeding crops lost
by the freeze, to be secured by first mortgage upon the crops.
This relief bill is another instance of the enlarged func
tions of government as a wet nurse for people in need of
assistance. It seems to be the accepted theory of paternalism
that if for any reason, business is poor or crops a failure, it
is the duty of the government, national or state, to go to
;he rescue. Instead of the individual solving his own
problems and working out his salvation, he clamors for pap.
The funds are to be administered by the board of control,
with the governor's approval, which comes as a shock. Is this
not the same board the governor accused of losing some
$000,000 of state money in administration of the irreducible
school fund? Is this not the board whose business methods
he so severely censured? How can he trust them to admin
ister $1,500,000 of bonus money in loans that are such poor
security that the banks, whose business it is to loan money,
will not advance it? How much will be lost, even by the best
management, in case of crop failure by this unconstitutional
and unbusiness like speculation with the people's money?
While the state is in the business of distributing largess
to wheat growers for frost damage, with wheat at $2 a
bushel, why does it not take care of the loganberry, walnut,
prune and other growers, who have not only lost crops but
vines and trees by the same freeze?
Kansas Isn 't Kansas
TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL
I. Olobulnr protuberance
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6. Odil. ili'dcil rclou
7. A full
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2. Toothed wheel
21. Nt'iit
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26. I-:nilo'iad
VERTICAL
1. I-XaniceliH
2. SiiiKle
3. D.M-overe of PnHfic
4. FrciK'li protif.-tumtc
6. Soon
6. rotsrrlrt
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11. KwiMfirtil rrg.inl
13. B-'nciorn
14. Full alone
11. Support
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HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE
Tlie way to solve the Cross Word Pnzxle Is to fill la the while
stiuares of the diagram with lite words wlilch airrce with Hie itreoiu
pouring; definitions. Tne tlefliiitlous are numbered lo correspond will)
iup nuiuoers on iiie aiazrain.
Anj word defined la Hie lext under IIOltlZO.VTAL" will begin
at Us number, shoun on Itm dlacriuu. and will eilcnd all Ihe wnj
across to Hie nrst olick siMee lo the rtgtit or inn. number. That la,
lie word muM begin In Ihe square lliat coulains Us idiilifiiic num
ber, and extend as fur as lue while squares continue uninterruptedly.
An word tiffined tinder "VIRTICAI- will also brain. In Ihe white
sna.o that contains Us number, but will extend downward as far as
l ue muta snuccs renialo unluterruiilcdly.
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Comrikbt 1921 George Matthew Adams
A Modern Marriage
(
A . Akanrhin? Novel
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSO.V
A LITTLE I'OOIi
Of course Dick, you aa well aa I
know wrote Kutlilyn Evans
Kichord Slarmount In the letter
which she sent with the manu
script truing of tne incmenis iua
led to the Indictment of Kooney
Kvanx her husband, for the mur
der of Elton Koas that Rod did
say, -It is too late. Here cornea
Dollceman" but the reporter naa
made It look aa If I bad plea Jed
with Rod to go away before he
u found with the body of rose.
Contrarily, Rod bad Just been
trying to persuade me to go Into
the house immediately and go to
bed. He wanted to keep me out of
it all It possible, and it was I. Dick.
who brought It all upon us.
As I feared, the newspapers, tak
ing their cue from the officers, are
trying; to throw suspicion on my
marriage to Rod. Oh wnal a ter
rible maze of trouble that secret
marriage made for us.
How could I have been such a
little fool as to dream that I culd
possibly change all ths traditions
and society ethics by which we
live? If I had not insisted on that
secret marriage this terrible thing
would not hive happened.
Dick, I am frightened and I
want to see' Rod. I want him to
take me In his arms and tell me
It is ali right. I want him to take
me In his arms and tell me that
whatever happens he still loves me.
It Is very lute at night os I write
this but the nurso has pro-nlscd
that sho will see that this gets to
the club tonight so that you may
get It when you wake in the morn
tng.
Come to mo then as soon as you
n, Dick, for 1 must iic.ir how
Rod feels. I must know that he is
not entirely downcast and I mu.st
know you have toll him that I
loved him.
Kallilyn.
Rlrh.ird Ktartnount fiHin.l Knth-
lyn's letter and manuscript under
the door of his apartment when
he awakened the next morning.
He read them both through care
fully and as soon as he had eaten
his breakfast, started for the Jail.
He found Rodney Evans almost
unrecognisable. He was uiuhavcn
his eyes had sunk in h hend and
their rims wor rid as though ho
had not slept for days. Ills voice
was hoarso when he greeted Dick.
'Have you seen her?" ho askej
eagerly. "Have you seen ncr
morning? Tell mc how Kathlyu
is' Have you been able to keep
the police from her. Why didn't
you mi to me last night and tell
me how she was; 1 didn't Jlccp
one moment. 1 had virions of her
dying and my uol being ihero :u
hold her in my arms. Dick, Melt,
why did you torture inc?"
"I diilu't dare come. Itod. After
I talked with her Inst night I knew
would be shadowed when I left
the -hospital and I was afraid If I
came Ulre.tly to tho Jail some
bright mind would make the de
duction that Kathlyn was well
enough tl send you some message.
Of course you know that is the
last thing we want anybo-ly to
know."
"liul she did send me a mesnaRP
Dick; she did send me one." Rod's
voice was quite aa unrecognizable
as his face. "You told her, did you
not, that I said I would love her
whatever happened!" In his eager
ness the man bad stretched his
hands out and gripped tile urms of
his attorney.
'Yes. I told her all that, Itod,
and she not only told me lo tell
you that she was yours In heart
and soul through It all forever but
she has written It here."
"She didn't semi me a Idler, did
he .'"
"No, ltod, but I have anked
Kalhl.wi to do one of the hardest
things a woman of her reinicea-
men', Intelligence, and niujest, ca
do under the clrcutnstant.M ,
which she la placed. I hav,
her to write In detail ev.ryt ?b2
she can re-nember that baPP,nJ
from Ihe time you proposed to hi.
on 6th Ave.. year anj , h ,J
ago
"How do you know that"' i.
terrupted Rod. "How do you'know
I proposed to her on 5th Ave ?
"because like the brave uuu
woman she is. she has already wri,
ten of that proposal and told manr
Ihlngs that a woman keeps In hsr
heart as too sacred and sweet to
tell to anyone."
"Have you seen the morning
ers. Rod?" "
Not yet but I saw those of ye.
terelny afternoon. I see the scounl
drels are trying to make out that
ICalhlyn and I are not legally n:ar.
rled.
"I suppose, Dick, by ilm t
that Kathlyn has Md you hCrs
she kept her certificate and you
have been able to five it to those
reporters. The next tlmo you see
Ihem tell them that when I get out
of this they shall have to settle
with me."
"Kathlyn did not mention the
certificate to me and I forgot U."
"Get It. Dick, get It. the first
thing you do aflor you leave me
for I would not have the poor glri
blamed for anything n this mun.
n er.
"Give me the manuscript. Dick
I want to read It now. R-me aber
I shall not have It printed if t,,'
any possibility she directs thi
slightest suspicion to herself."
Tomorrow The Oilier V oninn
Seek not proud riches but suet
as you may get Justly use soberly
distribute cheerfully and lean
contentedly.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManua
wow- pe.Ki!S6'
WE WILL NOW BROAH
CAvdT THE. LA.OtEt HOUR-
CVbT WILL TL
(From the Hall imure Kven.tK
Sim.)
Ki'ori) time to time on tills n:ige
uttt'iithm' hnti been culled lo
"MftHluiK Kiiiisas" as nil exunii.lt'
ot wlmt ivul fonvaiil-louUinB pre
prtw.s.vimn will do (or a slute, the
pruvinK grmnui (or new uiul iur-fVurd-lcukiiiK
political, economic
iiul social theories. Kunsas nan
been portruyul as rampnnt in the
ran of progressive Ideology, which,
ti everyone known, means mot
laws, more taxes and leas liberty.
The point has even been rencitti
ivhere the whole mutter has be.Mi
ilrtinlHsed wtih the verbal shri'K
'Kitnttan is Kaunas," and let thm
!xptahi everything.
It seeing there has been an errei.
(t would appear that K annas, tfrv
ipito all we have said. t really
not progressive at heart, hut con
servative. Kan naa is In a way lo
lose its motion picture censor'rp
hoard by legislative fiat. Ka!iia:
has Jiiat elected and safely eii
iconced In the gubernatorial chair
conservative, who strode to vlc-l
tory over the writhltiR bodies o! a
dirt farmer and a voeal nti'l-'
kluxer, and who. according to Mr.
Miller, offers au panaceas
man's seK-infiicted ille. The Kan
Has legislature has declined to
"probu' the alleRetl IrreRuiarlcies
of the departed dirt farmer l)ji,
thereby passitiR up a chaucc to air
a scandal sequence.
v And, now comes the news that
Kansae has taken another ski J in
its backslidden courue from the
pure heights of progressivisin.
Kansas has refused to ratify the
federal child labor amendment, an
upHtanding progressive measure.
Can It be that Kansas, erst
while creature and ward of the
federal government. Is being in
oculated with tho toxin of state
consciousness? Can it be that
Out where the brims of hats are
wider.
Out where the drys are futl of
cider
they are. after all, peering out
wistfully from the fields of wav
ing corn? Would it be too much
to hope that Kansas may yet h;:n,r
the "little brown jug" nut of the
stable and into the parlor?
IiOWHlt (JIVKS
LIST TO REFUTE
MR. ( LEAVER
(Continued from I'aito One)
of His 1 hi a iift. (Meav er's i eporl
lake unto bis dt-part tnent rn-ill!
tor this raid.
1 1 1 (i in In 'it t it fli;mi'-i ave iIImi'OV-er-
.1 In the ml of Ihe Jusitcv
?" it et sh the statu.- of pi.ihlM
tion law enfor'-enntit In t lie coun
ty in it relation to areoiupli-ih-n'onts
of Sho tiff 1 tower and hts
ri.iee a. rr-ni o-ired to tluf-e dlrect
td bv Cleaver.
Tbo re'"itl pIhmv In (be year
l!24 "bat lhre hae been Tl -hm-s
In the JuKtlre coin Ik of S.ilcn, and
Stlverton, w lth no aritttttaU an J
one c.Te pending. The offu-ers
havo batted 10a per c-nt on, all
trials an.l ple.ts of guilty ami ob
talning eon victioin. Four of thrsr
rnse are on appeal. The total
fluet Impotiod In connection witti
these caaes amounted to $H55,
md Jail stntenrrs totaled Z110
days. The total amtnint of fin
collected were $i700.
Out of this work the rherlff and
flty oftlrers are eredlted with
H570 In fines collected, while the
fines collected for which state
agents were rwporiNlble amounted
to $1130. put the $1130 does not
go to the credit of Cleaver or his
Pien to any appreciable extent.
Ths records show that there
were only five arreala during ItZi
tor whirh men sent out of Cleav
er's office on the st.tte fgents own
Initiative cr rcsponvlble and (he
flnei colleeted from these arre.s(s
tntalfd $L7S. The b.ilance of work
tJciio by s 'tie agents was done
rh her by Ibii n men, who held
state star from the governor's of
flre, an.l who were brought up
here to poliee the state fair Kiund.s
or by agent holding e:ate stars
wh.i eame Into the enmity on the
tnvitat Un of oily niai abulia or
tt'U n OOII!lt.ll'!'!l
Out of a loi.il of 29 cask's credit
ed ! st.ite men in the two Justice
n'UiU -it S.ilein and rfllverton, 10
Were fnvil arientji made by the
Hums men at the fair k rounds and
the other It by men with state
!-lirs invited in by local officers.
ine c Mitny p u.t to such men
$loo,90 out of Its own prohibi
tion fuiM and Cleiver had noth-
hi- to d.i wi'h it. (iivhu him the
best of It. the reconls Indic.ite, ex
r:uUe of e .-d uutomubltes. that
Clravr's men. operating on In
struetlona from his offiee. seised
one s.lll in the county during 19J4
and m.ide five arrests in a bunch
at Htlveitnn Whbh brought in
l-'TX in fiiitw
"Inetir Cleavcp charges Sher
iff limvrr ulth behid las in prohl
Milon law enforcement," stated
one loeal of fh i il today. "f that
is the case. It has ben Cleaver's
duty as a state officer to come In
here and enforce It himself. He
has had the authority, front the
record he did n do it. and the
main enforcement has been
brought ah .tut by the sheriff, the
records showing Tt CAAes. 70 con
victions and one case still to be I
tried. No other county tn the state
has as good a record.
1 V7' H 1 I 1 - I 111 II 1 I 2 5 Crr. Bnl.m ri;hl. tutivtJ
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