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
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4. Kit'buiiatloa
8. Sol wt-U lighted
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16. V Kimutrjr
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11. Inily (ub.)
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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.
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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.
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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
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To wpurjit'
To npjHirllon
Tlirli-e (pref.)
To luiiule
l'rrpoltfnn
Siiilh (ah.)
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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
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