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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
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HORIZONTAL
1. Doubly (L)
S. Infant
7. Ktmiiatlon
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II. '4mrctl Nimbim
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IS. A Mettled court
17. Civil Kiijeiner (ah.)
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2U. Walrus
22. IS'eur (pietU)
11. Mini (pi.)
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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
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Any word defined under "VERTICAL will also begin, in the white
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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
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Storehouse for hay
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ltoy.il Kiiiiineers (lib.)
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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.
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