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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1925)
PAGE FOUR rfHE CAPITAL JOllKNAL, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1925 Capitaljrajournal ka Independent Newspaper Published every erenlot except Sundej Telephone 11; etvi tl CEOnGB PUTNAM. Editor end Publisher The City Beautiful "Do you know that Salem may become the most beauti ful city in the world" chortles the optimistic Salem Statesman. Before any such dream is realized, there will have to be a radical change in existing methods of city building and in the methods of city builders, as well. The haphazard crazy-quilt style in vogue will have to give way to a system atic program both of building and of beautificution, or Salem will soon rank with the "hick towns, The beauty Salem possesses is largely inherited from the pioneers and early settlers vh03e wisdom in city planning far surpassed our own. In fact we are doing more than our share to mar our inherited beauty by building shacks, corner groceries, service stations and garages in fine residence districts and holding vacant business property at unreason able prices. Salem's business district has been little changed in sev eral decades. Principal business streets, like Commercial, hve only had one or two new building in 40 years. There hasn't been a first class business block erected hn the cily in 15 years. Most of the enterprise of the property owners is devoted to advancing prices to prohibitive figures and refusing to build themselves, thus checking the growth of the city or forcing its extension along other streets. As a result, Salem's business district is trying to go somewhere, and can be switched in any one of several directions by proper construction, or continue the present forced method of sprawling into the residence sections. City zoning and uniform street and lawn beautificution are essential in any effort to make or keep Salem beauti ful, as well as the cooperation of all individuals. Property owners must consider something besides grabbing the un earned increament or the city will mark time instead of marching forward. They must either launch adequate build ing programs or permit others to do so. Unless they do, the city will grow uglier instead of fairer and lose population and prestigo. Constructive Legislation Governor Pierce has refused to approve or veto the only piece of constructive legislation passed by thi recent session, that increasing the fees on automobile busses and trucks op rating on state highways, so the measure becomes a law without hia signature. Constitutionality of the measure has been questioned by the attorney-general and it is probable those effected will appeal to the court and perhaps resort to referendum. The law requires busses to pay three-fourths of a mill per passenger seat per mile, while trucks would be assessed a fee of 1 mill pel' ton per mile. It has been estimated that this law will return to the slate treasury approximately $400,000 during the biennium. The only fault with the bill is that it does not place the fees anywhere near high enough to recompense for the high way destruction caused by busses and trucks, which use the state's ?(i0,000,000 investment in highways as a free right- of-way in competition- with tax-paying railroads that arc forced to construct and maintain their own rights-of-way, The estimated receipts of $200,000 a year will not pay one tenth of the damage trucks and busses cause on highway pavements, which is estimated at 75 per cent of the total wear and tear. They not only force expensive heavy con struction, but materially shorten the life of the pavement. TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL t. raratltae 4. Kit'buiiatloa 8. Sol wt-U lighted 0. I'ut ana? Hi. l'rcptwltiira 11. IimIImii trine 12. Topographical engineer (ub.) 15, l:Hrt ttt t'liiim 16. V Kimutrjr in. Kile 11. Inily (ub.) yj. Mi.., -I- lim of compan (nb.) Mmik 27. 'In place JK. T' rolor ltd. Miluy HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The way to noire tbe Croat Word Piiule ti lo nil In Ine white aqoaree of the diagram with (lie worda wbk-b agree wuh Ilia aecora pan)iic definitiona. The defiiiHJoua aro numbered to correspond wiUi uie muuocra on ine Diagram, Any word defined In (he lest antler "HORIZONTAL- will begin at ka number, ulumn on tbe diagnuu. and will extend all the wni across to I lie first block spare to the right of that number. ' Tliat t. tie word mast begin in the to. a-ire that contains It ldentirlnc num ber, and extend as Car aa tbe white square continue unlutcrrupicdir. Any word defined wider "VT RTICAL will also begin. In the white apace (hat contains It number, but will extend downward M far a ine wime spaces remain uninterruptedly. UK VKSTfcKDAx S BElil.,3Ti g-oresIleo gllEllIi. itlOTE 5 iH M O R A J- O H E 5 E E. B oTT A Gay Inaugural We are informed in the dispatches that gay colors ruled at the inaugural of President Coolidge, that the setting was bright and that dash and snap were apparent through the uniforms 6f diplomats, although Mr. Coolidge retained his calm and took the ceremony aa part of the day s work. It is well that Washington was gay with colors, for it is not gay with Mr. Coolidge any more that Mr. Coolidge is gay with himself or any one else. It is well also that the setting ' was bright, for there is nothing brilliant or scintillating about the gentlemnn in whose honor the pageant was held. And it was well also the uniforms of diplomats and military Bupplicd the dash and snap, for there was none elsewhere. Mr. Coolidge is probably the most unemotional man that fate ever pitchforked into the seats of the mighty, almost painfully mechnnicnl in his passivity. His greatest thrill seems to lie in pinching pennies and his keenest excitement a gallop on the electric hobby horse. His lack of pep is matched only by his Lick of humor. Yet President Coolidge starts off as one of our most popular presidents that is outside of the capital, for not since the days of that other great economist, Rutherford B. Hayes, has there been his like in the White House. The con trast of his pal simony with the extravagence of congress has endeared him to the rank and file. NEW CAW NET MEMKKKS AT DESKS TODAY (Continued (mm itugn at the uKrirulturul doparliut'iit lie. tore niciiibt'i'ii ot Kuii.sua ilcli iit ion In con 1; rem and lmiviiti r hit' fa of the department. Then he held an liifurmutiuu In tlio kim ri'Luy of tiro. The with wan HilmlniHtertMl aft er the new Hucrrtury had conferred at kntftli with rrettlileiit l'oolirfe Ii was indicated that it new n&lMt- ant secretary aluo would lie named anon and the. niuno of C. W. (.'reel director of nttricultural extruHlnn of the I'niversity of Nevada, wan mentioned prominently. Cool idee Bntv Earlv. Washington, Mutch 6. illy At aoc luted I'reua. Huving pledged himitelf anew to the service of the nation in an InriiKiiral ceremony of almost unprecedented simplic ity, President Cool I dK o took up to day the four-year burden placed rpnn bis ahouldera by the people with no Indication that he might thance his simple program of "do ing the day's war a." Vice-President Dnwra, Inducted lnt( thnt office yesterday shortly before the president's Inaugura tion faced hU second day aa pre siding officer of the special aesxlon of the new senate, mean white, with the startling effects of his precedent breaking Inaugural ad- tlreis till fresh In the mimU of meuihors. Some sided with him in hie-al tack jn senate rules, whicn permit one man to tie up legisla tion wilh a filibuster; some frank ly and vigorously dulu't and a few were neutral. With the induction Into oflici1 tod iy of Frank It. Kellni:g; of Min neMjt.i, as secretary of state, sue ceedlnR Cliailos K. flushes, and Without J. Jardine of Knnsao, 11 h secretary of nj;rl'-ulture, to take the place vacated ly Howard M. lloro to liecoina povernnr of West Vlrrrtiiln. tlie president's cabinet Mt i 1 lacks one member, an attorney nencral. Cabinet Still Short. The uoiniiiation of Charlei IV Warren of MichlKun. to fill thin post left vacant with the elevatlou of Harlan K. Stone to theeuprems court, was allowed to expire with the sixty-eighth congress at noon yesterday, and its resumption In the apeciul fteesion of the srnutf. called chiefly to act on such mut ters, will he one of the principal nominations to eugage Its atten tion. Uverett Sanders of Indiana, suc cessor to Ilacom V. Slcmp. as sec retary to the president, was sworn in late yesterday after his term as representative from Indiana ended with the eon ureas. Apparently unfatlKUcd bv tha strenuous activities of InaugiirA- uou any, the nres dent was mt hi desk before 9 o'clock this morn in and Immediate) dunged Into rou tine work. VERTICAL To rorrtft Alt) Type measurement 4'oiiMimed Itehfdil Artillery (nb.) In rt of a fhwor Ifcuit i)riMll(fl by sicnin Irt of a eluilr pprMtiiJil pronoun iHS tll To wpurjit' To npjHirllon Tlirli-e (pref.) To luiiule l'rrpoltfnn Siiilh (ah.) MHW1 Copyright t2l Ceors. Mntlhew Adam. Wen, mothers maids A Romantic Serial of Modern Life By ID AH McGLONE GIBSON A Ixticr Prom Mother Lillemay Vail got some comfort and consolation Just from the mere touch ot this letter which her mother's htid had penned. Her torn And bruUed heart could think of but one refuse and that was ber mother's arms. She remembered also the sun shine In which fur leng month every year she had played on the old farm. The sunshine and warmth in Paris were all a deception. Un der It there was always the cold and chill she was feeling now. She would go back to Ood'fl country and her mother. There she would find the sun warmer and the days more smiling than anywhere ele osi earth. There he would for get, v She picked up her mother's let ter again and laboriously tried to wake out the queer handwriting. "My dear little girl: I hive Just received your letter telling me you arc coming home right away. I need not tell you how filad I am. You know that, for I have written you so many letters asking you to come and make your old mother happy In your vacation times that you must know how ut terly lonely I have been without you. It has been long, my duuKhtcr, all these years while you have been over there getting your education but I was determined that you shoul t have all the things that I wanted and never had. I wanted you to be a greit lady. Lillemay. I wanted you to be able to enjoy all the great wealth that these oil wells are spouting into your l.ip daily. That is why I de termined to let you go without me. I did not want you to be hampered by anybody or anything, not oven your Ignorant little old mother. You muat know by this time that I have never wanted to be a draw back to you. Now you are educat ed and coming back with every thing that foreign schools and gov ernesses and companion and so ciety could give you. X hope you will find that I, too, hive Improved. I have not told you, dear, but I have been study ing all the while you have been gone. Six years can do a good deal even to i woman like your mother I was thirty-four when you left. I am forty now, and you are Just half my age. I wonder what you will think of me when you see me? There ate those that telt me I am looking younser and sometimes when I am happy and look in the glass I believe them. I am happy now, Lillemay, hap pier than I ever was before iu my whole life, and you are going to m.ike it almost too good to be true of this earth by coming home In lean than a mouth to your loving and adoring Mother." From out her sore heart Lllle nay at once susplcloned the truth Her niotlWr could not have writ ten that letter unless she had fal len In love. Her Hp curled contemptuously as she repeated "fallen in love." Thnt is what she herself had done. She had been blissfully happy. She had been told that she was beauti ful, but h had all been lie :he picktKl up a h.tnd glass and 1n..k?d at her pain-drawn face. She was not beautiful, siie was no: evtn well-bred. At this moment -he Wanted to go and make that other frfrl ne unhappy ns herself.- She wanted to physically hurt her. She felt within her the primitive, blood of the d.iueht'-r of a no uvea u riche mother upon whose barren little farm oil tinj been found. She put down her mothers let ter end picked up ths other, and turned it over &nd over In her hnd wondering who could have written her. In all her years abroad she had never before received a latter from the United States ex cept from her mother. No one U new nor c ird anything about "old Villi's little girl" who had Railed away on. the great adven ture. Suddenly she beoame somewhat panlrky. Was her mother HIT Shs hold the closed envelope tightly. he dreaded the news she would find within. At lont, taking cour age, the tore it opon. "My dear Lillemay: Do you remember the times when you used to run away and pick ths roses belonging to 'the man next door,' the man you U3ed to call X'ncle Ode?' I have never forgot ten the little touseled headed girl who thought uhe was stealing my flowers. I used to find you with your little hands full of them. I am writ in? this to tell you that I think you had better come home as scn us possible. You have been away too long Already, my dear. Your mother, in her loneliness, has become interested In a moving pic ture actor not one of the big ones but a man younger thaoi she who la trying to get on. I am eure he is Just making love to yoi'r moth-r because he hopes she will further his ambition. J Jare not speak to her about It. 1 think you should be on the ground. Ovid Marchmont. P. S-: Cable when you are com ing." Tomorrow An Old Frhitd PIP 303 BRINGING UP FATHER ILL 'bIT A.ROOMO AJS HOW LONESOME' M"t IT LL C1T ON HE!?. l-E!?vet SHE'LL UET ME CO I .,, ,., I out r7-r ' '-4 Bv Georee Mc.Manus V i ii i HMivitu ii i in i r : 1 m ii i ft- r i ill wai'sf.'V ill I iji t i i i ir, i- . , . . i i i aaan w iv . ii- immnn, '-. .- I fj yS - ' f Cil9J5 bv Int-l Fcatuhk Service. Inc l.iiiBi,j M ' 3 DUMB DORA (Substituting for Barney Google, during Billy DcBeck's illness) o7i,i''nKirc:? Z T I t if Ort, 9.ew 1 MMrr ) "I I wot wsiivl TuOeuwa o'clock am- I I x f I .' ifep.W3t.feTS'V WCCWaM, ; S' WE. WVMI 'A - rt) x MtfT SPWT A CBMT! VOO -v we most WynRV. i rT ' PwuP,30STCAMe.iMmvort. ly sevib wii.vP ; good time, y Q H ae-STdOVTA ymoiuowto emiectaim'em, puniAPoa WE'LL, - : ' ' TJecooMTiiV AWDxUfcVB. ovjur. ECLE.! 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