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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1925 CapitaUliJournal Salem. nron Aa Iadpndnt N,wppr PublUbcd rtrr venlng except Sun4j TeltphoDt II; ewt HI GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher Dodging Economy Governor Pierce's great contribution to political science consists in the discovery that the way to cut taxes in two is to multiply them rather than to effect economies in admuuS' tration. To carry out this theory, he deliberately fixed the levy for 1925 at a million dollars less than required to meet expenditures, hoping thereby to force the legislature to impose some of the additional taxes he champions, such as a tax on cigarettes and motion pictures, a gross earnings tax on utilities, a severance tax on timber, a higher insurance tax, etc., and at the same time let him pose as a tax cutter. There are many ways in which expenses could be cut, such as consolidation of offices, elimination of commissions and reduction in bureaucray, but these apparently interest neither the governor nor the legislature, which is busy creat ing new commissions calling for more bureaucracy. Simplifi- ation of government apparently concerns neither. A saving of a million dollars a year could be effected by a merger of the higher educational institutions of the state under one management and the elimination of duplicate and over-lapping courses. If the 'inflation was deflated and lome of the frills and foibles, and the institutions managed for the interest of the state instead of competitively for their twn benefit, a great drain on the taxpayers would be plugged. Then there is the little matter of extension work, educa tional correspondence courses and field work. Here we have the state university, the agricultural college, the normal school and the superintendent of schools spending many thousands of dollars in trying to force education upon those long past school age. Coordination of this duplicate effort would save a great sum. However, with a governor intent on keeping his patronage and in favor of multiplying taxes to do it, and a legislature without the definite program imposed by party solidarity and responsibility, individually bluffed by interested blocs, we cannot expect any real reform. And matters will grow worse under the direct primary until some semblance of party conization is restored, and we cease to drift without a program. Senate Shows Courage Courage shown by the senate in refusing both to ratify the child labor amendment to the federal constitution and to submit it to the people, in spite of the insistence of uplift blocs, is to be commended. The amendment is dead through action of other states, and placing it on the ballot would only unnecessarily encumber it. It is to be hoped also, that the senate stands by its con victions and refuses to pass the kindergarden school bill, which will unnecessarily add to the expense of school dis tricts. This bill is desired principally so that mothers can pet rid of the care of little tots during the day time and have leisure for gadding, at public expense. Experience has amply demonstrated that these same mothers arc not sufficiently interested in the education of their little children to send them to a private kindergarten school, for many have been opened and failed for lack of patronage or else are not sufficiently convinced of its cdu cnlional value to pay the small tuition fees required. The slate has enough to do in educating children old enough to go to school, let alone keeping them amused during infancy. A New Poll Tax A dispatch from Bath, England, states that a tax on bobbed heads is proposed to assist the municipality in bal ancing its budget. It is pointed out that quite an income was derived by a tax on the powdered hair of the ladies of the seventeenth century. It is suggested that the bobbing tax miirht be considered a "poll tax." Here is a source of revenue Governor Pierce has strangely overlooked in his suggestions for increasing the state's revenues, for a tax on bobbed heads, or even on bobbing, would yield a tidy sum. To avoid discrimination, however, the lax should also apply to men with shiek hair-cuts, and thus double the revenue. Of course in such an emergency as Oregon now confronts, in the effort to maintain its bureaucracy, the tax might be extended to men that shave and women that paint and powder, and thus aid in restoring an era of bushy whiskers of sturdy pioneer type as well as giving women back their crowning glory. We pass the suggestion on to the governor and predict that if he endorses it, m one of his harmony messages rap ping the legislature, it will make him famous. HALF HOLIDAY GOOD FOR COUNTY ASSERTS BOYER In the proposed li.in;; In cl.tn Ini? h.nu.' fur county uftirt' the Ct-unty would gain a f ill two hour of ervtre from Its euiploo rit I ll ST tlliln InshiH HOCUl'dilltf ti Couniy Cli-rk ltoytr. Tlw plan 1h to Join with CI:uVi tr.'i.i county in Its bill. t;itid the comity clerk, which wmilil keep the offkon open from I In the morn ing until b in th ofternoon on Week diiya and from 8 in th morn ng until 1 o'clock In the afternoon On Satiirdjy'a, sucordniic to ltoyrr. L'n Jar lbs present Uvr lha of fices art open every dny only from S to IS In the morning and from 1 to ft In ih afternoon. The of fices remain cloned during noon hour, under a nrovMnn of law. Trie proposal is to change thl o thit the office would remain pen a full dny every day except Bnturdnyn, including; noon hour, nd to romaln open on Saturday up through the noon hour until 1 o'clock. "While tills would Knock off four hours on Saturday after noons." stated Boyer, 'it would add lg hours during the wrek uis by keeping oi en durlug noon hours, aii'l n a net result the ce.inty would Rceure two hours more him -vices from nil of Its em ployv during the course of a week thnn are now Kraut ed." It is un Icrstood that Senator San1 i it own Is the one member of the Mai ion delegation standing out iinamst the bill, Senator I.a Kollctt .'li far in is khntvn nnt hnvlnir . he. on general I .a Follett princi ples, nn.iitist iutli a measure. Senator ltrow n objevts became ho sees the nnmos of no farmers on the petition and believes that such a measure would meet with objec tion from farmers who do a large fliavo of their shopping on Satur day. The petition, however, carries a lurgv number of names of local hti;iiner men, as well as county of ficers, bankers and citizens gen erally. One business man Is reported as declaring hlin.el( in favor of the bill on the ground that it would encourage farmers to come In and do their trading on other after noons than Saturdays. He ututes this would be sure to bo the rase if banks closed along with county o fflres. "Tho trouble l," this business nan Is reported a saying, "farm er make it a point of congregat ing here on Situ id ay and u a re sult my clerks are louring a rood share of the week and worked to dfath on Hatimlay afternoons. This closing ptan might serve to equal ise the situation by-spreading the farmer trails considerably over the entire wee.: and give up buoy day all the time." TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL 1. Omit 5. OnraiM of btwrtnff 9. N Mineral 10. Malu 1 1. I'MII I'i. Talk Illy 4. KtM IV honktil 17. Vlvmlljr IK. Kni 111. 1.111 ve 30. 'qrelr 25. PfM. of It 26. Western KlbrrUn gulf J7. Juliv of olive, 211. Jliilun :10. Klllt'd 32. Alone HI. Vlslliln 14. YvfcM'U SOJX'l'IOJJ OP YESTERDAY'S l'17,,l,B t 5- mARJCj 1 1 IN h o gjBTJMolF PWtW lTRRefATt s i n dIaIdMtIo P E OVvlRlEpT VERTICAL t. Preefdtntlon 2. Caitk S. Wlhin 4. WiKMleti pin 5. ltOCOll! 6. Mhii'h nickname 7. lown 8. Stair :t. lu ifl. Aciise 17. Hawaii. in food HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The way to attire Um Crew Wore! Puzzle Is to fill In the white squares of the diagram with Hie wonts which agree with the eeosn Hiuins dcfiuitloiis. The tleuiitktna are numbered to correspond with toe uuiiiDcrs on ine diagram. Any word defined In the text under "HORIZONTAL" will begin at Its number, shown on the diagram, and wilt extend all tlio way aero lo the first blielc epaoa la the right of that number. That us lie word moat begin In tlie-square that ecu is ins Its identifying num ber, bud extend as far as the wliite square continue uninterruptedly Any word defined ender VERTICAL" will also begin, In the white space that coitlnuis lie number, but will extend downward as far as I uo mine spjictw remain unl nterr it plodlr. 7T p g ir I L I I I I Li Copyright 192 1 t.eoro Matthew Ada inn Hd. Wafcle 1 I. ( .in 22. ;rtk leitor St. Slant '2b, IViih 2H. Cut Vt. Uiinliiiiiive ending . ya. ofrittion A. Modern Marriage An Ahsorbinc Novel By IDAH MeGLONE GIBSON ) I.OVE AND MAKRIAGE 'hen I came back from dress ing he said. "Girt 1 can not allow you to ruin my life, even though I love you. Do you know I haven't written a line of the new play which I have promised by the firat of the year? I sit down de termined to write and your face comes always between me and my typewriter keys. I aee the little golden lights In your brown eye. I long to touch the damask of your cheek. Your scarlet lips invite me. I wonder what you are do ing. I am jealous of every man that speaks to you. I am jealous even of your work. Surely you must know I want you, want you for my wife! It will break my heart if you still persist in saying that you will not marry mc, but even that will be easier to bear than the torment that I am In now. 'One moment you ardently beck on and the next, turn to ice and send me away. "Day after tomorrow I am poing to Station's camp In the Adiron dack and before I come back I must know whether we spend our linos together or whether me part forever. I shall expect my an swer soon. 'Until then, let's try to forget the matter." I begged smilingly. "Let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow" "AH right." he Interrupted. Truly both of us acted as though it was our last night together. I danced and coquetted with Kod as I never had before. Rod told his wittiest stories and held me in his arms while daoicir.g as though he would never let me be free again. "I am sorry it Is over," I said as among the last revelers we left the cafe. "We were silent ail the way home;' there he kissed me lightly nn th eves and murmured, "Good niffht I watched him stride down the street in the moonlight and then prepared for bed. All thrsugh the long hours of the night I debated y prooiem N'o one knew better than I my un fortunate obsession as to Indepen dence, both economic and personal N'o cue but myself not even Hod knew that I could not be happy without him. Not even he knew the absorbing passion of my love for Mm. V.'hon the lipht of dawn beRaJi to break I arue and throwing a robe over me I went to my dtk and wrote Rodney a letter. As near as 1 can renumber it was like this: You would probably be surpris ed. Rod dar, if I put at the head of this letter the endearing salu tation that is always In my heart when I think of you. You accused me last nlsht of be ing cold and you have intimated that I am not In love with you. If you could look into my soul you would find t'aat you were quite mixtaken. I am not cold and I do love you without any reservation. 1 love you so much. dear, that if love were all, I would give myself to you this momen:. with the sure knowledge that 1 could keep you until death do uh part. liut you and I. Rodney, know that love is not all. We know a well that while Kn asks much of his worshippers he really lakes lltt!e note of whether they lire the same ones who throng his altar day after day. Low, my lover, is a very jealous pod and he brooks no divided M legtance of thie who kneel at his altar. They must love Love, lie cares not at all if they love each other. . Conferment ly tho moment the , business of life and the everyday living comes between him and hu worshippers, the moment his ador ing slaves for any reasons hecomt inattentive, he tbrwsts them into the outer darkness while other proas forward to busk In love's radiant countenance. Yoti have heard me tell that marriage is the surest cure for love and although you did not agree In words, yet I could see from your face that you believed us I did. utthough you did not want to acknowledge It. We have had many times an II ustration of the awful part that marriage plays in killing love. It has not been sa many months since Vernon Btcdn.an and Lucllia were married and yet already you nnd I both know they have found out that marriagd was a mistake. They are already talking of aepl mation and Vernon Stedinan is al ready looking for some other wo man with whom to full into that male of miud which he call love.M We have seen every day among our friends the breaking of com. punionrtiipg when promsed to make heaven upon earth. I always have asked myself what s the reaam? Why do peo ple who neem so much In love with each other become so quickly bor ed wnen tney seme uown to mar. ried life? I have decided, Rodney dear, it is bemuse wo mortals are so con stituted that the only thing we are devoted to Is constant change rr at least constant variety. ixnnorrow Tiic Hour Has Conio Jack Johnson, former heavy, weight champion, who Is barred from boxing almost throughout the United States, is now a eosnel preacher. BRINGING UP FATHER By George McMnnua Sw-whwsthe mact-tek; CilTTlM" tllCK AJr TlREO Or Von A.KI' ItIAS..- REFOiW TO TXUK Z7J TO ME I NOW-Ll"bTEN- I'D LIKE TO HS.VE A,M UNDER 'bTAJS Ol Kt ROONO HERE d . IE I AM IN eAO GROUND B , rEn ..vJiiw ciniss r ml WUTUP. ufoc- . SVbwqi I V I I Ml S I I ' . 1 ' : DUMB DORA (Substituting for Barney Google, during Billy DeBeck's illness) XKT GOT OUT OF-. TvE. Wc&PnAL - GEE., T WISH I COULTJ BOUQUET Tb SEiJO rMSeioUaKTGOTOUT N "1 IvmuL.XSVtoOLTjSAVy I I Ufc&E,PORVtEAW, ACCEPT ) OWunAt J VA,i'Bi.tACt l fM KRAZY KAT The Kat Ought to Know By Herrimaa Nc, Oil Hit xer 'aiaSt (? 4wpiu lecolr , OFPtSS )PP nAID'Av OUr ABOUT ME . J! 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