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SATUHUAil, FWiKUAlU 21; m PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON Jim Kir by did not ak what the CapitalJiJournal Salem. Oregoa tD Independent Newipaper Published erery eranlnc except Sunday Telephone GEORGE PUTNAM, State House Economy If a business man or corporation finds that costs of peration exceed revenue, drastic curtailment of expendi tures follows and expenses are cut to balance receipts, tor the only alternative is bankruptcy. It has evidently never occurred either to the governor or the legislature to treat the state's business affairs as they vould their own. This attitude is characteristic of govern nent operation everywhere, with politicians intent on patronage in control, and is the reason it does not and never ;an pay. With prospects of a million dollar shortage in sight, the jovernor presented no practical plan of economy, and the legislature has not passed any measures to effect economy. Instead, it has created new sources of expenditure, provided tddilional boards and raised salaries generally. The governor could have recommended and the legisla ture enacted a comprehensive plan of consolidation of depart ments which would have materially reduced payroll and made for greater efficiency. They could have placed the higher educational institutions under a single board of regents and operated them as one big state school, instead of rival institutions and saved a million dollars to the tax payers. They could have united the fish, game, forestry and other boards under one conservation commission and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. They could have placed all Hie commissions and boards upon the budget system. and turned all their revenues over to the secretary of state as they should be with the surplus going into the general fund. These are simple commonsense adjustments that any business man would adopt for his own financial welfare but the idea of economy prevailing in both in the administrative md legislative branches is to spend more money than there ! in sight and hunt up some new way to soak the people by lew taxation. Expensive Tax Saving The financial tangle in which the legislature finds itself is lue primarily to the action of Governor Pierce and former Treasurer Myers in fixing the tax levy too low to yield the necessary revenue to cover state expenditures. Although Jirecled by law to fix the state levy to provide sufficient revenue for needs of government, the levy was placed so as lo yield $1,000,000 less than required, in order to force the legislature to seek other means of raising money and thus nakc good the Governor's claims to having reduced general tnvntion. The Governor, sore over the defeat of the income tax, lought to force the legislature to raise the necessary revenue by enacting some of his pet measures, a tax on cigarettes, a icverance lax on timber, a tax on gross earnings of corpor ations, a tax on cosmetics, a tax on movie films, and an income tax. The Ways and Means committee, faced with the necessity of raising the required revenue, lias abandoned a millage tax on general property because of the Governor's assurance of a veto and proposed: A tax on tobacco and tobacco nianufnctiirca. A tux on motion pirLures. A jrros carniiiKa tax on public utilities. A tax on cosmetics. As none of those taxes which will all be passed on to the people can be levied with an emergency clause, a referendum will be invoked upon them all, necessitating either holding them up until the next general election in 1926 or providing a special election this summer, at a cost of $100,000 to the state. If the taxes are beaten by popular vote, another session of the legislature at $2,500 per day will be necessitated to provide other taxes. The force program of Governor Pierce is proving expensive to Oregon. OPEN FORUM Contrluuliuui to Thli Column muat be plainly written on one side of paper only limited to 300 words to length and signed wltb the name of the writer. Article do1, meeting theee specifi cations will be rejected. To the Editor: Would you rtleatie allow a few linea roapect ng the Howun movement. He len t dlttpiitclieo from Oakland nnd Hollywood, Calif., state that next Friday at midnight company there of the Rowan cult expec the Saviour to appear nt that lime. They style themselvcH "re formed Atlventi.st." Thin writ ir wishes to state that he had had church relationship with the S. D. Adventititfl for nearly 45 yearn md ran positively ntale that thin "reformed" movement is utterly repudiated and their work con temned hy the 200,000 and more f the membership. It has been denoune'd publicly ilirotmh the denominational peri-i xlii'iiln ami the people warned j lRainst it. A few wevks ai;oi him. Howan was In Sulnn but did jot appear at the church. We n fcilvontiats do nt know when Jo w will return. We have always held thif petition. We have al vay.t held It to be wrong to pre Jiet lime, ns it in anaim-t llibl" earhlnir. It nny be near but nrhen, no one but the (!ud of heav in knows. , We as a people believe that nurh remulnt to be yet done be fore the end is reached. The rreut Kastoru question involving the nations of Kurope mut be !irnt flotlled which It now l not. md what might be called "The ft'ewtern .Tuestion' yet rem a inn to be worked out In t"e 1'nited State. This Involves a reltgio pol'tlcal movement which wlM r quire time to solve. So wo have to turn d"wn any time proposi tion that may come up. This Is mrt the f'rst mnve that we have had to meet. Just 40 years ago one J. M. Cummin In the Htato of Michigan set Oct. 22. 18S4. About 25 years ago a movement was launched at Liv ingstone, Montana, by one fltant- on. Ths wavs struck at a point In Southern Oregon and went no further. Others might be named arid others will arise. We fully expect It. Thess vsgarita ws II; new It Editor and Publisher hare to meet and tend to mako u b and our work unpopular. This we caunot help. 11. 1018 6th St. Feb. 4. West Salem. To the Kdilur: i have noticed in recent Issues of The Capital Journal artlclea suggesting tha'. liberty street bo given the name of llroadway street. Honorable people of Salem nnd worthy mayor and couiicilmeii. al low me to extend a Tew remarks fn hehulf of the property holders ot North tialcm. We are prom, nf lliuad wa -diet't lu'caiiMc it Is one uf ht wid est str.vts in alem. it Itada nto the heart of our city, and lead tin .in t;li one of the most pro :rcssip sections of the town. It is a h'.ivet winch Is traveled by three of the 1 invent business enter prices of our ity, and we arc pr'iid of them. We the pcnple of North Salem are not In faur of making lw change from J.iherty to ltroadwav. but we are in favor of in t err.ee ti-iu High and Hro.idwoy together bv a bridge across Mill creek and making a straight s'.reet from State street nerth to llighlar 1 avenue. Then call the stre llroadway from State north. Tin: would bring North Salem Into the heart of the buniness district an 1 eliminate the crooked street. . residents nf Salem wo re Inter ested in beautifying and making it a model pattern for other cities tf It for the benefit ot Salem, the Mroadway reside!. and North Sa lem people are for It. Hememh-T we ran have "Hig llroadway" as well as otlrer cities in the west. O. N. IKKLANi). 1092 Hroadway street, Salem, Oregon. Ijondon, Feb. 21. tlly A-ol-sted Press.) A bulletin tsuel from Buckingham patacs this morning on the condition of Klnrt Oeorg-r, who la suffering from bronchitis, nays: "Ills majesty ,! temperature his not yet settled. Progress con- linues, .hough slowly. TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL I. Male hoc 4. Kiihiuliifeiie 7. Indefinite article 8. Imp. or rut 10. .Ml nine KngdlrCCT I. To win point 15. Merilierruitean winter resort 13. Terminal jKiiiit 17. Ati uc-tluii (law) IS. TrlcKrupli office U. To uurd off I. Ktfff, ufry erM 2'A. Very till Mlriirliire V Word uf negation 7. 1 (li '2H. To have otKtenee 1'ijtH on ;tO. A hwn-1 f Irn 1 1 y men t inned l line OLt'llU.N OF VKS'iKH UA1 b "t'.I.E QMTMCUBSI IMYlNMDlRlEM VERTICAL Storehouse fur liny rrtKNllloii To iihivq awirily A pouri I Hit pi filling measurement Sfii Sft) Toward or Into place fIV render odorous To enroll Anger Kiter hi Itlliitsl.t Loving l'orm of verb A waist hand Troiililo (S4ot) ritiral of I l nZ in embryo Itill uf e-hanK tlOD PEO I T WA S R. R. TiRiwiEYE iMU DA LL SOBiAiJi? L eoPdo RE BRINGING UP FATHER HUH'. HOW CN I GET TO ?ueLP IF HC I'D GOING TO CONTINUE. THKT- I 'Uj L Crrt Britain DUMB DORA MUTT AND JEFF 'MISS CLUTtsA hfou MARRY Me r f V . I LSEifcl! lt ev I (.SURE, BOB, X'U STTW FOR C?C -T 1 I ., I OltWT KMOU DORA IUAS:$-flU. Y 1 U ' V I yAV-BEMIS , WATCA tAV 1 0N6 I KRAZY KAT Who Started This? By Herriman ox tiCwter-AT itsr ( dor )(cn.moi0o m. lsofte, w becMe.iMis1f I C&sFi T Amsa to th& iskTA l iwBoTti J Hfe ftAs Accepted Acce&reo Au J sxvus. JM wr.iry vmj -) mx wcN'ftjtwj ppo5w& you 4mi dwt )w j jtLr lV-UAr . jfiwtnHfl06ft L , , Koj marry 1 Lro fmm mm 1 r w, . mi : saw.i! ! v. HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The way to koItc the Cross Word Puzzle b to fill In the while squares of the diagram with the words which agree with the accoin uiii)hff uYf lull Urns. The definitions sro aumbercd to correspond with the number on lite dUffrau, Any word defined In I lie text under "HORIZONTAL'' will boffin nt Its mimlM-r, kIiouii on the diacrtuu, and will extend all I ho way aero. to the first black snnee to the right of that number. That Is, i tie word niUNt begin In the square that contains It ldenilf)hue num ber, nud CAtend ait for as the while squares conllnue unUitcrruptcitly. Any word derinrd under "VI R'I "ICAL will alao begin, In the white apace that con I a In lu number, but will extend downward as far as I ho w hile space ren.aln unhiicrrupiedly. p y jrr W V g7r 2211 I I 1 vxfA I I I Coiiyrlglit 1921 Gcortfo Mnltbew Adanu 3D Feaiurc Seavich. Inc. tight fftcrved. (Substituting for Barney Google, ZTZ2 m I 1 1 1 " 'f.tY -U V - ' J,Bt,E,.;i 1 1 fLXPEXT ME TO GET WAsKE HE I "Z. & tw i-H . . 1 . during Billy SeBeck's illness) Jeff Falls Under A Modem l An Absorbing Novel I By ID AH McGLONE GIBSON j The Voice From the Mountains The manuscript that IMck Star mount had been reading stopped there and he smiled to himself as he thought that Kalhiyn Evans had at least a sense of dramatic values, tin had ended this part of her story In a most Interesting place. Hhe hud made even him lawyer and sophisticated man of the world thac he was rather curious to see what she would write next. "A telegram for you, Mr. Star mount. I'm sending it ripht up," said the clerk as Dick took off the receiver at the telephone's tink ling bummona. Hurriedly opening the envelope Dick read; "Kathlyn Leonard and Itodney r'.vans were married by me SepU S, 192:1. Marriage placed on record by me at the court house at KnoKville. Goidluh Huntington." gtarniount went directly to the telephony an culled up Jim Kir by. CJlad you phoned. Pick," he said "I wati Just going to ring you up. The fingerprint on the other gun were not Kathlyn's. I think, old man, we'll have to reconstruct our theories." "Do you think there Is another woman in the case?" "I don't know. I know only that the fingerprints ot one man are on that gun and they are liodney Evans.' " "I don't care. Jim," Dick Star mount, s-ild stubbornly. "Ill never think Kodncy Kvojis killed that man until aftr he is convicted and he tells me that the conviction ie Just. "I have called you up to tell you that I have the prouf of the mar riage, Dick. Shall I send it lo the Central News bureau?" "Yes. do that. Also send me up any more of Kathlyn's story you may have." the Spell of the I'alm Beach M "tOU'LL HAU To RcsigsTi rKoi me; liow tames' ccuB! AMD fAY MoTHra why don't you say Somcthinjg ? Marriage 'Da you need It tonight? I was not roir. out. I'll bring It over to you the first thing In ths morning on my way to me noapuai. "I think the story will break to morrow, and of course it it does we mut keep it uo every day. However, tomorrow morning will be plenty of time." Richard HUrmount hung up the receiver with a alifli and went to bed. For a long time he reviewed the case from every angle that he could think of, but he was no neat er success than he wad at fliat. At last ha resolutely put everything out of his mind and trl?d to sleep, but at dawn he awakened and after n bath and breakfast started very early for the hospital. On his way he stopped as his ear wad a.otailed by the raucous tones of a newsboy. ' Here's your mornin paper wiih tbo beginning of K itiityn Leon.nd's own story. Contains new clued hi the Hos inurd?r" Siarmouunt purchased two pap er and walked on. A little way farther he wits joined by Jim Kir by. "Why are you out ao early. Jim? I U.ousht you never got out before 11 or 12 o'clock." "I dun't usually, but you, Dick, and your murder ca.-e have not let me sleep much lately. I'm going over to tell Kathlyn that they found nothing on that Klin that had the sliyntest resemblance of her finger prints." "ou ilan't expect th:-.t is going to make her happy, do you? She has bt-en afraid of that very thine: and sh? knows as well as yuu and Z whxt it will do to Hml. We'll ao over together. The timo has coinc when I must nsk her questions out . rlKht and whatever her answers to them. I an: c'lni: to put the same questions to Hod." Mocn and Then Regrets It. mum 1 1 queatiaos were. Ho knew without being told "Kathlyn, your finger prints were not on that gun," said Dick abrupt ly a the two men entered her room. Kathlyn Evans looked In sur prise. "Of course, they were not, Dick. You did not expert they were there, did you? I thought that wa why you tried to keep the men from taking mine.' "Kathlyn. did you kill Elton roas?" Starn.ount adked solemnly. "Dl'k Siarmount, have you sud denly lost your mind f You have nearly asked me that question sev eral lime-j before, but you should W-nuw wry well that I did not. Do you I nick I would have let Hod ft ay In jail one moment after I (ii"W he had been arrested for the murder, If I had been guilty nf it?" "Do you think Rod killed hlm?, Ka'hl;n Evans did not answer. Instead, she asked in terror: "Sure ly you do not think it was Ilod?M "I am asking you. Kathlyn, what you think," inteiri'pted fcjtarmount, litem ly. "I am Itodney Evans' wife. I dc rot have to answer a question like that, even to hi lawyer," ahe said Immediately on the defensive. Monday The Soul Kiienks. TWO FORGOTTEN CITIES DISCOVERED IN PERU Uuenos Auvs, o. 21. A dis patch from La I'.icion from Lima Peru, saya that ancient cities, on of Inca and the other pre-1 not origin, have been tliflcovered In tht mountains near Ctizo. The discoverer says tha hi found remains of stone bulld'ns i temple and a fountain In tin Inca city. Lansanne Treatv Annrovcil Washington, Feb. 21. Tin Lausanne treaty for re-C3tablis(. ment of full diplomatic and m)hi morciul ri'iat;jiis with Turkey wai annrov.! today with rcserva.iopi 'by the foreign relation commute Bv Genree MrMnniw Bv Bud Fisher C&e, I've said Too MOCK
