Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, February 13, 1925, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925 CapitaUjJourna Satan, Oregon An Independent Newspaper Published ererr evening except Sunday Telephone II; new 81 GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor end Publisher The Nigger In the Woodpile Legislative probers of the office of state prohibition com missioner, have recommended that he be removed for the manner in which he has conducted the office and at the same time held that Governor Pierce was responsible for all of Cleaver's actions, finding "the governor's orders and direc tions have been strictly and literally followed" and that "the governor has personally assumed full responsibility," so that the blame rests with the governor, rather than his agent, which ought to be sufficient argument for the abolition of the office for any other Pierce appointee would do likewise. " The committee also finds that the commissioner was "directed by the governor to keep in close touch with the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League and to follow his advice, which the commissioner has consistently done," even to the extent of turning over state funds to be squandered in riotous entertainment of bootleggers. Why should the Anti-Saloon League have anything more to do with law enforcement, than the Ku KIux Klan, or any other secret political organization that constitutes itself an agency to operate without the law, in the effort to supplant duly constituted authority? What is the Anti-Salcon League? Like a great many other organizations, it consists of a very few individuals, more or less fanatical, calling themselves a league, who pay each other good salaries from collections taken up in churches following emotional and hysterical appeals against the Demon Rum. Originally organized and financed by big busi ness to drive the saloon out of business, the graft proved too good to give up after its objective had been attained. It still nffords fat retainers for a few at the expense of the many. The Anti-Saloon League renders no accounting, does not report its campaign expenditures, but maintains its lobbies that coerce officials and candidates by threatening loss of the church vote unless its demands are complied with, as every legislator knows. - 1 To turn over the police powers of the state to such an irresponsible organization is the acme of folly and it is small wonder that with it in control, prohibition enforcement has been discredited by scandal after scandal. There is no assurance that conditions will be otherwise until law enforcement is turned over to duly elected peace officers as provided by the constitution. The legislature should get rid of the Anti-Saloon League as the nigger in the wood pile of enforcement. TODAY'S CROSS. WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL S. To talk uonftc-nsc 5. Kcntlr 7. Jirt'i uMVMrd 9. To re in I I. A lirriirll i;t. f.uM'ou fcubfttuuc' 15. Ji wi-I 17. Ailjt-M-iive IS. VT III. On (lie mimic vvl 21. Ilmm of A'triiliitm 2'. I tlNO dtllll fllll Of IK VII UK -I. All uliss 25. A lev 17. Mml.liraj tt. 1'uri nt .'(II. 31. T'i vilfie HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The war lo solvo the Cross Word Puule Is to (ill In the white ouarc ot Ine diagram with the words which Sucre with the nrcotn imiiiliic drriiiitkuia. Tlie lcf lull Ions are aumbcrcd to correoooud w ith iiiu nNwiKn ua me aiaifrom. Any word defined In the trit under ' IIORIZO.VTAL" will tiecin al Ita niuiitx-r, tfioun on the dincrtun, and will eslcnd all Iho way ncfw. ,u iiiu urn unc apnre 10 hip rigiic of hum milliner, mat la, Hie word must bit In in tin squire Unit coulalns Ita Identifying num. ucr, and citnd as fur as the while square continue uninterruptedly Any word deflnrd under "ViRTICAf." will also begin, hi the white pauo nun minimis us number, but will eitcnd downward as fur I lie wlillo aimcve ren.aln nnlnlerriiiitnllr. SOIXTIO.N OF VKSTIiltlMV'S PIZ.I.IS MINT Al5 TY VERTICAL VllHt U 'lINT (J 1 1? lldiii.iii hrttiiM; coin l.'iiitiiii; iiftor Oi-khii or Iiciiriiii; At hiiiul An f-siiy I t i ll 1114-41 To Inn. Up I''l)ll llOUMC' Moviim iilMMlt sI-tK CnhulM Sum II cakt' 2. 3 H 5" fr 30 H CopjiaulH ll:u Ueuwe MullhfW Adams 20. Veterinary (ah.) SS. NrwlMinor iiiirugriipli 21. I'nMry 2. To xtnff 27. lU'luiiKlnr to uie 24. South (till.) A Modern Marriage ; WOMAK. THE SACRIFICE "Some one of the bo), Dick, tiald Kir by. "Got a chance to rfpeak with one of the men who made the print this morning and ae he remembered the blotted print oa the gun be thought that they were quite different al though he had not compared them when he talked with Conetcy." "You don't think " "I don't know what to think " "Kodney Evans would not com mit murder, Jim." "No, but Kodney Evane might shoot a man who insulted the woman he loved, 'even as you and I'. "Yea, he might do that," ac quiesced Dick. "But It he had done it I do not believe that he would deny it. Rodney Evans ie a man, Jim 'even aa you and I." .No one, Dick, could tell me otherwise. But you mutst re member that Rodney has never denied the killing. On the con trary, he hae threatened many times to 'confess' if anyone im plicated Kathlyn in any way." 'But be would have told me, Jim. A man must be honeet with his attorney at least." I do not say that he haa not been honest with you. Whatever he haa told about this murder may be easily attributed to a jealnua care of Kathlyn. As I told you before, when a man is in love with a woman he can be counted on to make any and all kinds of an ass of himself." 'I will confers to you that I have all my theories of the caac smashed, Jim, but I know Rodney Kvans aa well if not better than I know myself, and I am aatiefied whoever did the deed, it was not he. I know that I ehall be ab!o to do this in some way at the trial An Absorbing Novel - ID AH McGLONE GIBSON ) the person who shot Eldon Foss and someone la going to any aomethlug that will fasten tb deed upon that person. "What I want to know, how ever, is to prove that Rodney is innocent before the trial so tint we can present our case and ask for diemiwiul." "You are goiug to do this Dick even though It puts Kathlyn bs hlnd the bare and lose you the friendship of Rod forever? 'Yes, indeed, I am expecting that Kathlyn will make a slip somewhere in that statement she is writing for you. Here is an other part ot what ehe ua-s writ ten." "Haa ehe reached the events that led up to the tragedy ?" "I think not, for although I haven't read It Kathlyn told me most of its contents before the men broke in to tuke her finger prints." "We'll Just hare to eit tight and wait from hour to hour. Did Kathlyn give you any more of her manuscript? I think we had better begin publishing it day after tomorrow," said Kirby abruptly as he took the sheets prof erred him by the attorney. "We'd like to announce It for Sunday and publish it befbre the whole thing grows cold. I think that as she is well enough to re ceive visitors I'll go up and see her. Someway I feel that the otory Is going to shed a great light on the whole thing." "All right, go ahead. I'm nitre she will have the story nearly finished when you arrive as I have promised her that she snail see Rod tomorrow if she will fin ish the atory. I've got to keep her away from him unless you or I find something in the story that will give us another clue, for if for somewhere In this town Is Rod ever stes her he will take matters in his on hands and make that 'confession that he is threatening. "Jim. I'm quite sura that Rod know that Kathlyn shot Foas ev en if tt were done with Foes' own gun.M "Why are you so prejudiced against Kathlyn, Dick?" "I don't think I am prejudiced against her except that 1 tee4 her foolishness has spoiled Rodney Evans life and brought disgrace upon him Jirat t the time when the world has opened up her treasures of fame and fortune to him." "A woman can play the deuce with a man and from what I know of Kathlyn she Is surelz one to do it." "I'll go up and talk with her and arrange for the announce ment of Kathlyn Leonard's Owa Story." "I believe, Jim, you would serve your own mother up on the pages of your newspaper," Starmount said with a quizzical untile. "I hope the temptation wilt never come to me," said Jim Kir bv, seriously. "Goodbye and good luck, Jim. You will find me afterward in my apartment if you want rae. "Don't look so downcast, Dick. I believe things are working out all right and we'll get to the bottom of this matter very soon." "It won t be right for me, Jim, if L find that Rodney Evans has had anything at all to do with this." "You're wrong, Dick, you're wrong. Don't you understand that Rodney Evans would rather go to the chair than have it proved that the woman he loved had done the killing?" Tomorrow The Love of a Man. BRINGING UP FATHER Save the Highways Before the legislature adjourns, it is to be hoped that sufficient penalties will be exacted from auto-truck and bus lines to recompense the state, at least partially, for the high ways they are destroying by using them as a free right-of-y.-y for commercial profit at the lax-payers expense. Highways never were designed as arteries of commerce to supplant tax-paying railroads that maintain their own right-of-way, as is proven by the fact that Oregon's magnificent highway system, built for the convenience of the people and the attraction of tourist traffic, are rapidly being pounded to pieces. Every year the auto busses arc enlarged to carry more passengers and the trucks increased in size and capacity to carry more freight and the tremendous' pounding of these heavy loads is directly responsible for the disintegration of the highways. In a few years more, if something is not done to limit this traffic and curtail it, it will be necessary to rebuild the roads. An investment by the public of $110,000,000 is at stake The tax should bo high enough to provide a repairing and rebuilding fund. If the stage and truck lines canuot pay it nd make a profit the public will be better off if they-Ro out of business. The fees provided in the bill that has passed the house are too low to either restrict traffic or provide the necessary revenue. They should be greatly increased. Bv Geortre McManus HELLO -DAJJCHTER -ir VOULL SPfcK TO .-(OUR NOTHE.R L FlR-oT AN- ENO THAT QUARREL ILL CIVE VOO Tl-.AT CHECK. for hundred Dollars -,' THAT i LEFT ON rT ipODji ' 1 -.Ir . IffljaEgjg vyELL-tCUEVbl-NE tn L-s 1 TRMGHTEMEO ,r- y . OUT THE CATTLE, fif 192S bv Int l Fcatuih Scavicc. Ihc, Ct Btiuin right, Tw.ry.d WELL-OIO MOO VlI aPELAK TO f OUR "OTHER . VE3 Al-tn l The chfck -K-iv.. I THIMK tHE l-b f WCjKX AT NOO TOO- 'litfivli n-i Mi GIVE OAUOHTEe HUMORED ' wuun j iv ix WERE MOTHIN-CMVT itr i A,ur tmo JZj-zzrSr-' TOO mcai like iw a -at-A-Liot-i: n 1 1' S-3 DUMB DORA (Substituting for Barney Google, during Billy DeBeck's illness) OPEN FORU Contrlbutlona to Thli Column must bti plainly written on one side ot paper only limited to 800 words lo lenittb and signed with the name of the writer. Artlclca no', meeting tbeae specitl editions will be rejected. To I ho Editor: Will jou al low nte epnre In your valuable puper (or a few llliw? What la all our ntates logtaUtive roiiTti Inn alwut? I belelvc Its Jtwt simply polllliw. I so In mime of our nowsptipem Unit Kvi-nar l'l.-n'o and nuxt all Ilia titatr tip poitttpos are dnotlltMl to poltttt'tl rrnolficllon. ami 1 rati w ni bet ter way for feovennr 1'icrci' than to tic hl Vfto ax frei-ly and fnr elhly an I let both hon.va of iho IcKiflatnro over ride ht vt'luns, that the fruits nf hi Inlmr.t may Ite seen many d.tys lipiici. Well e:va onP n(iiti,'in what d,i ynu mean hy tho Hiaud you art t;tl. Inc. I mean that 1 hellfvo I ran pfov lo yim boynnd a doubt that thp state and national ronfiwion of today W pi.l itirnl. Will you pl"ase (to b;o k with mo to tlin wurld war wh.n we had a Himii oratle pnidctit and polill.'a w m nlnioit forgot ti-n how ennitriv-. and the eonate pave rri'ldeni Wilmn tlmoKt evcrylhiiiK he ask ed for. Ho you remember how Hie K It. Co. turned over Iheli H R. to help win the (treat vlr lory that wan won. how Henry Ford forRot pnlitin and ea.it hi. lot for humanity and peare. How repttbllrnne alike forxot pulltka anil nave up their eons to rrowi the Kich and poor tlemoerat and the (treat wallers In to a atrnnce euntrjr and many of Ibrin never returned and they lnyed down their Urea to win the world war for wourid humanity and world peaee. lk you remember how mon after the war wai orer nd victory mi won that politic! be Itan to blare up l the U.S. en te. How If It had bin poalhle iney woulit Rare nol Ilea r eru elfled Pi evident Wiloon with hla peare treaty, our ureatext pres ident since I.lnrolln If not Waah Initton. I heard W. J. nrran ay In Chrhalla. Wash the latter part of prealdent Wllaons admln Mrntlon If the present U.S. sen ate did not ratify the peare treaty the people would elect a senate I that would ratify It but so far Mr. W. J. Ilryan hao been mis taken all on account of politics. will you pleano ko back with me le-s than 2 years aco. do you re member how our president I'ool edi;e ro freely ami forcible use,! hiji veto ns. bow frcelv an.l forcibly concreos and senate over nu ins vetoi ami bow the pu litienl need ..prune; up on Nov. the I 1 !- I. anil hrmieht fonrll. fruit an liundr.il fold. I see in tile Oregon .siiitesman of .Ian ;'o -l'.L'.'.an nrtietn liL.. tl.i 1 Mleltc Party Is bared from at- lenillnir rentililican nartv me..f It seetm that the f 0.1'. thinks tll.lt l.afollette and his party has .nmite.t me political unpardon able .'!!. I eailll.tt Re ll,.rn I n follelte and his parly has In lured ine Riif. any worse than Theo- o.oe (0-eve I ..Tl. Mm did In mis. why is the matter o urgent and t ho luilitical decree .o haty. whv should tho o p be so hastv lilie the nil 11. i, I. i. 111.. I hump runhinR In to battle, whv not wall a time with patience un tlll l.afollette and his party can he Informed ot their request mid priiblly will he reconverted mi l come hack Into tho fold like Theodore ttosevelt and Hiram Johnson did. one man eald the kooiI Lord had bin better to th yoiniK pupa than he had bin to 111 111 he said the Lord h. jnna eyes at flays old and lit had allowed him in h nn..K. (Iran forty years before he open ed hi political rally poor democrat poor finan cially poor republican leta ret our political ere open and not stand in our own llht forty year more. star with them A I'lerre. aettlne Rack m v,.m.i. cyl 8. D. MII.I.S. Aum?llle, Or. f Z- I I MoTHlMfiS TOO S00D POfi DEAK. I W . . . II 1 ' ' ' 1 1 1 1 I if 'Htw? 1 o) C " -QJK 1 YttZ tXACT SIZE ALU fEM3A6EMtMTr (p. KRAZY KAT Driving Them Mad By Herriman I YOU TV pMCS. A10R TOfAD OUT TH I VVrfAt'S" S? 'trov rTTT,- ,,vr. r-.- MSSTL9Kilmm'' I I I ' . . . ' VV vnei . . . J . J f t 1 -t !3 I 1 IWTIVIH L.-V J f Mr . f. -sorSO. X.111 II K M II 1111 '11 I LA)nu You fiV'd evx, SAiyt r TbXiVZX iN www Mr F&m mfmm&& 7 IN . J.1 rt- i wm ix vmm urr mt'm mss uHiKijiLi i-i . T.....L i,. ...... i,.,.io ....n... iiv,U JlnAjLJ I L 1 U ii - jmrsA i, . M'i. VV,yjfeg MUTT AND JEFF U The Orange GrAve Is Like Jeffs Brain in its Infancy. .. -By Bud Fisher I ' vi "p