Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, February 27, 1925, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text.R4P-TKM-- UtlU IAWTAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1925 CapitalJtJournal 8ala. Oregon An Independent Newepeper Published erery trenlng except Bund? Telephone 81; neve II GBOROB PUTNAM. Editor end Publisher Results of the Session In a negative way, the legislature made a fair record, having killed many unneeded measures and some vicious onrs, even if it did not not accomplish much constructive legislation worthy of . the name. It effected no economies but increased expenditures. To those who analize the net results of the session the legislators are going to have a hard time explaining just what they have been doing for nearly seven weeks. About ell they have to point to is the appropriation and the revenue bills, and there is no guarantee that they have not made a blundering mistake of the latter. They started out on a comprehensive program of removing from the hands of the governor some of the instruments he has been using in building up a political machine of his own, and in disrupting the status quo of the state departments and institutions. Aside from securing the dismissal of George L. Cleaver, state prohibition commissioner, they accomplished nothing along this line. Enactment of the market roads, bus and truck regulation and the banking code just about embrace all of the construc tive legislation accomplished for which there was any vital need. For a time it appeared that the session was to be graced by a failure to enact the usual conglomeration of petty measures that serve no other purpose than to clutter up the statute books, but the past week has seen measures rushed through in wholesale lots. There have been some needed amendments made to the bonus and other laws, but their importance is hardly such as would justify the expense of a seven weeks' session. , Taken as a whole the session has amounted to nothing more than a political battle of wits between the governor t-1 the organization leaders of the legislature, with the executive outguessing and out-maneuvering them at prac tically every turn. With the assistance of a dozen members of the senate he created a deadlock that gave him complete control of the situation, and has used his veto power as a club to beat the house, the senate and the lobby into line, even to the extent of forcing them to play his own game of alleged tax reduction. As a diversion the session has provided the spectators with a lot of amusing entertainment, but it has been an expensive luxury for the state, and may prove to be decidedly more so before the tax muddle created has been straightened out. Artistic Temperament Few artists have capitalized for publicity purposes, the "artistic temperament" better than Gutzen Borglum, sculptor, who is again in the limelight for having greeted his discharge as designer of the half completed Stone Mountain Confederate memorial monument by smashing the designs hnd models, for which a warrant for his arrest has been Issued. It is charged that the sculptor persistently neglected his work for which he has collected large sums of money from the Daughters and Veterans of the Confederacy. Nowadays an artist is not, looked upon as a genius unless he gives full play to the whimsicalities and eccentricities of, what for lack of a better name is called "artistic tempera ment" and serves as an excuse for lack of poise and self control. A genius must differ from the rank and file, if by no other way than making a fool of himself. The old masters did not find it necessary to cultivate the artistic temperament to secure recognition of their genius. Michaelangelo and Leonardo dc Vinci and contemporaries were probably the best poised men of their times, but since Whis'" r popularized eccentricity, it has been found a paying proposition and a short cut to fame. Borglum is perhaps the most shining example of the artis tic temperament in the country. Starting in the 80's as a landscape painter he became a protege of Senator Leland f'-"ford, who like many another man who amassed great wealth, posed as a patron of art, and sent the young artist to Furopc. Quarreling with Stanford and other patrons, he turned to sculpture with great success, winning notoriety by smashing with a sledge hammer a costly statue of the Angel Gabriel he had made, because of criticism. The present trouble is said by friends of Borglum to be the result of a clash between the artistic temperament of the sculptor and the Ku Klux KInn temperament of the Georgians In mntro! of the memorial association. REFERENDUM ELECTION SKT SEPTEMBER 8 (Continued from Pane One) ImiKthy debate w,n ImlulKccI in' on thin question. 1 11a arRument Watt that tho Rtate eonslltption in be ing uniemteil Ity a minority of til people and that Hpeeltil eleetions do not druw to Iho polls a suffi cient number of roters to refle. t the actual wihcs of the people, llure. declared that the senate and tho ways anil i.itmns committee were laboring under the liell.-r that the referendum on the tobac co tax bill would be Invoked bv the tcdiacco men. This, he said would not In- the rnc. but that It would be Invok.-d by the fih and Ralne commissions nsainnt the bill mscssinir. a lax on elf-.iustalultiK stale activities. He declared Iw tvns opposed "to scdilliiiR a $100.- 000 election upon the taxpayers." Senator I'nton. who on the lavt day of the session, split away from the Mullnomab members with whom he had worked throuKliout the eessiun, for the second time took Issue with them Inst nlKht and nddrewed tllcm In scathing fashion. "ToniKht." said I'pton. "we arc like an unmanned bark on an un charted scu. We are looking for someone to lead us out of the wilderness. Yesterday 1 wanted you tn attach tho referendum claueo to tho tobacco bill and you wouldn't listen to me. Now you ere making preparation for a spe cial election. I am at loss to un derstand this 'about face' change 1 have only love and ply for the Mpultnnmah members for making r.urh a mess of a program that was advertised with such acclaim at the beginning of-the session. You have heard only one voice, the voice from (he executive office. This legtdature will be remember ed as a sesstou that had no hca und no purpose." The measures on which the ref erendum clause was attached and which will ho voted on September .1, If the election is called. In addi tion to whatever other measures the referendum may be invoked upon are: House Joint resolution No. 2. Multnomah delerat Ion Authoriz ing Portland school district to levy limo.000 above 6 per cent tax I mitation, beginning with I ; J 6 . House Joint resolution No. 3, Collier Permitting K I a in a t h unity to lusuo bonds for refund ing purposes. House. Joint resolution No. 5. Murhanau Providing that If va cancies occur In the ofilee of ful led Slates sen. .tor or any elective office ,.f state, district, county or predict, they shall be filled at the uet Kcueral election, provided iMit h v.icHiicy occurs more than lit) dav prior to any general election. House joint resolution No. X. vVo.ulward Ui'pealiug section article I. of state constitution, providing fine or Imprisonment for ony person who shall bring into the state or harbor any. negro or mulatto. House Joint resolution No. 19. ommitteo oa resolutions Au thorizing issue of bonds by t'lark-1 ...nas county f.i. refunding pur p es. Semite Joint resolution No IS. Johnson Providing for appoint ment ef a commission to make in vostlgstlnn In relation to methods f assessment and taxation. Senate Jotnt resolution No. 5. Dennis Amending constitution Inhlbtlnlt levy of Inrnmo or In heritance taxes until 1940. Henate Joint resolution No IS Hall Amending constitution to permit Curry county to voto on a funding bond Issue. House hill No. 155. Bates Pro viding for wostern Oregon normal school at Seaside. TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE - HORIZONTAL 1. Doubly (L) S. Infant 7. Ktmiiatlon . Hub of m wheel - II. '4mrctl Nimbim IS. Texas nb.) 1 1. CuiiJiiiH'tk'U IS. A Mettled court 17. Civil Kiijeiner (ah.) IN. Not i)rIU) 2U. Walrus 22. IS'eur (pietU) 11. Mini (pi.) !?. I.kwhl iHMly water 2tl. IvM-rctM of a right law) Mlhhen aim At M'ft Aaaluht (prefix) lift, so. fcOJ.L JiON HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The iray to aolve thm Ctfba Word Ptral to to flit fan Iho while aqua res of the diagram wlitrtlie words srluch ait roe with tho arooin Iati)lMff definitions. The definitions aro numbered to correspond wllii ine uuiiiucrs oa iiae aiasnui. . Any word flc'lned In Iho text under "IIORIZO.YTAL" will begin at lis mum her, shown on the dtajrnuu, and will extend all tho way a crow 10 ine nrsc dlick spare to ine rtgnt of itiat number. That u, Hie word must beieln In the txiuaro that contains Its 4dentiftiue n tim ber, and extend as far as the while squares continue uninterruptedly Any word defined under "VERTICAL will also begin, in the white space that eon tn Ins Its number, bm will extend downward As fur aw iito Mime spaces remain uninterruptedly. UK VKSTKUOAV U '! Z,I,K 51 Wj 5 o li Id PLEWiEDEN la VA yA r wA K e c 'sitIaItIeuIsIsI VERTICAL . 1. ll.-ilo a round moon 2. Internulluitnl language 4. Indefinite article 5, Conductor's wund ft. Ahtiiv 7. iCehelllmi S. t'onio in 10. Out of (prefix) 12. I'ronoun (poet.) lu. lirotlicr's child 17. lrv multitude fruits lv. l-ii Irs Tiible land As Storehouse for hay rcek letter I'erlod of time ltoy.il Kiiiiineers (lib.) 7y ( H Copyright I!;i George Mnttbew Adams A Modern Marriage An Absorbing Novel ID AH McGLONE GIBSON The Threat to Murder "If you, Kalhlyn, have been true to Rodney Kvana you are a fool. itaid Klton Koss. "You have always Leen something for his amuse ment only. Think back over the time that you two have been to pet her and you will find that he has been engrossed in business mos of the time. No woman could be so much to him that he could not drop her If he wuhed to, as he has droiyed you for Sada Fill more." lie hesitated a moment ai thouKh expecting me to say some thing but I Wiia speechless that any man would diue to talk to mo in that way. With me It Is different," he continued. "Why don't you know, Rirl, that I am obsessed by you. Of course I know I had some tri umph In breukmg Vernon Stedman but all day as 1 found my stocks Koing higher ar.d higher X kept nainff 'It Is for Kathl-n; It Is for Kathlyn.' 'Come with me dear. Let's tro immediately to Italy or the south of F"ranc9 for the winter." "Yon know I can't do that. El ton," I said. Oh If you've grown irtuuu.O ho interrupted, "I'll even marry you." My anger mvc me strength to rise to my feet I said: "Klton roaa, I would hate to deprive the other women of that part of you." "iiut there are not other women now," he said. "There have been others, I wilj admit. I'm no bet ter than any other man and I'll confojia that I thouerht I was very much in love with a girl within the last year but after I saw you, Kath lyn. there was no other woman in all the world for me so I passed her on to eVrnon Stedman. And I was clevfir enough to let him think I think I was more ftirtous with Elton Foes because of the hateful laugh with which he ended bis speech than X was because of hts Insulting intimation. "Go I said. "Get out of my houaV "Why, don't you understand, Kathlyn, that I am abking you to marry me? If you must know, the girl I passed over to Stedman has this very day offered again to corns back to me. She says she has been unhappy ever since she went to Stedman; and she Intimated that .Stedman told hor this afternoon when he came to her after hi fight with ma that he was through with her and that everything h had told her about me was a lie that I had cast her off just as he was casting her off, that I was In love with you and h.id been in love with you since :he first time I saw you. "The ghi Is very pritty, Kath lyn; In fact she was the toast of the town when she was with me. Sne amused me more than j ju ever did and I am sure that it would not be better for me to Uke her back. Taking her from Sted man Is no worse than taking you from Kvanj. I hate to be so much in love with a woman as I am with you. I must have you as my wife, if nouess-iry, but have you I will. "Docause I care for you so much I took the time to call up that girl before met you tonight to tell her to go baok to Stedman, or to any other place. I told her I was com ing over here tonight to arrange manors with you and that we were leaving on the first boat for Italy. .Sho pleaded with me to take her back. Sdid ahe would never go Lack .to Stedman and just that af- .oon when he tried to tel! him that she had never cared for any one else but me, he had knocked BRINGING UP FATHER until ttfday that ho was robbing her down and hurt her cruelly. mo." She had hit her face against tho chair abi said, ani her eye was black and blue. "I told ber that did not Interest me, that I never wanted her to worry me again and that If ahe wanted to know of my where abouts all she needed to do was to watch the sailings of the vessels for Italy. "That's the girl, Jim," interrupt ed Dick, "and X have other clue wnich, fool that I was. I thougt unimportant which point to her Oh. that's the girl who killej Foas You see I was so sure It was Kail In that it put everything else ou' of my mind." "Wait a minute Dick. Wha1 Kathlyn says further wilt per ha p. give you more light." Elton Foss rose and came to ward me. "Darling." he said, "you see everything is ready for youi departure." "hit I'm not going with you, and I want you to get out of mj house. I wouldn't marry you 11 you were the last man on earth. II wouldn't be possible for me tc navry you under any circum stances. "Go." He put out his hamls to cater, me, as X went toward the door. ) succeeded In eluding him. Hi chased me around the table. I wat almost paralysed Arith fear. I hap ytned to think that an automatic which Hod had given me was is the drawer. I was planning how to get it when Klton slipped ani fell. While he wae getting to hu feot I managed to pull open tlu drawee and get the revolver intc my hand. "Now go' I said flinging th door open wide. I walked out U the 9eps and he followed me. As I turned back he came to ward me. "Go. If you try to en ter my door again I'll kill you." J siad pointing the gun at him. lie tried to remonstrate but ai that moment he crumpled and fell t. own the steps onto the pavement Tomorrow The Wruth from Above. S jrwcnbij lor the Journal By Geonre McMantii POT mm. I'M COtts' HOME. A.l-4' MCC,IE IP SHUL LET -aTAor pur until. 'JiV ELEVEN ,0-CLOCK. OH! MOTHER -THl ftlflT CO-bT -SAOO I M 111 IF HE. CONE'S HOME. I I II IP H W MY LUCK WOT A, iT WHCRE1 D.O XOOCET ,lOWJ M T TENO i-m VbLEero S?J CAMEL ltS TOWrs TONiOHT- IT A.ISO HOW MOCH UNTIL. 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