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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
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Salem. Oregoa
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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.
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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,
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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
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said Too
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