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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1925 A CaoitaLi Journal 8alem. OregOB An Independent Nevipaper PublUhed trerj erenlng except Sundej Telephone (1; aewi II OKORQB PUTNAM. Editor end Publisher Probably a Fake? Now that Sand Cave has relapsed into its original obscurity and the tragedy of Floyd Collins is receding into oblivion, we would like to ask the why and the wherefore of all the commotion the incident created. Why, because an unknown and unheard of native, is caught and imprisoned by a falling rock in a cave, must every paper be filled for a fortnight with trivial and tragic slush when the similar imprisonment of hundreds of miners receives barely a mention? There are many queer things alxmt the Sand Cave narra. tive that have never been expluined, but the entire schedule, from the missing of Collins until the funeral services were read at the mouth of the rescue shaft, creates suspicion of a carefully framed publicity plot. The finding and feeding of Collins by a newspaper re porter, posing as hero and a few friends ; the detailed story of his suffering, with only an ankle held; the refusal to admit the public; the final closing of all approaches by the "floor of the cave rising"; the digging of the shaft; the radio "heart beats" and other ruses; the military investigation, and all the features carefully arranged to sustain public interest; then the alleged finding of the corpse, which no one is per mitted to see; the long-range funeral and the closing oi the shaft with cement to prevent investigation, are high-marks of what has every indication of being a collosal newsfake slipied over on the public. There may have really been a Floyd Collins, there prob ably was, but as to whether or not he lies buried in Sand Cava, having died of starvation, there will always be a ques tion in the befuddled minds of the public. The real tragedies of entombed men, like the short and simple annals of the poor, attract little attention. Cut as Burnum says, the pub lic likes to be humbugged, and there is no belter proof than the Sand Cave mystery, whether based on fact or fancy, i TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL . HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE 1. Part of a circle 4. t-'louv t. Midday 10. Pnruul 11. Imib 13. MiiUImnI 1 4. I miI to form vers- (suffix) 15. 'In atrlke 17. J-rd 211. Arid 21. NiHr tniulml scale 1-1. Skill 21. A Millor 25. PcruM j7. Twine one Klluii ' 21. To Mrk at The way to noire the Crow Word PuzxJe la Co nil la the white cnuaree of (he diagram with 4t words which avrce with the aeconv tau)lnf definition. The tlufUiilkine are numbered to currepoud with UK) uuniDcrs on uie oiagrwo. An word defined Id the ext under 'IIORfZOVTAL will begin ait It inunber, sltouii on the diacnuu, and will eilcnd all tho way across io ine urst dlwk since to Uir ment or mat number. That U. the word most bet; In In the Kjuaro that cou tains Ua Idcntiftlusj auov oct, ana rxicna as iar aa uic Miuie square couuuue au uitcrrupu.fi if An word defined ttnorr "TT RTICAT.- will also begin. In the white pace that contain ttj number, but will extend downward as far aa tiie unite spaces ren.a.u Hiilnterruplcdlr. hOI.LTIO.N OP 1KSTEKDAV8 S T K A H pMSV W A K 5 B A Y O M E tM LOWER 2i Y S P A N KS VERTICAL 1. Motiniiiiii ntnec 2. shcikiii lenttH-r 3. W hat corn frown on S. I atn (coutr.) Hoy Anionic Low fellow Taki Nol I'lny thing: To uurd off i.rnmi In a forest 'Jo (hsiipi'Oliil A weiiHu To in. ike ji ii eti-fiiff Drnn liiild front r'rom (I,.) 3 in 5 6 7 ? 7 HI!75 ml? mi nz " 23 HI 111 IS 26 HI 2-7 if Hp ii I ll 11 M I I Copyright 1121 George Matthew Adanie Men, mothers art Plaids A Romantic Serial of Modern Life By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON Dinner With a Count "Do you for a moment think, Nonnle, that Bob hae cot a comet on all Paris? Or do you think that I will shut myseir away from every reetaurant In the city for fear of meeting him? I want to meet him. I want to show hlrn that I, too, cxn bestow my company up on others just aa though he were not In the world. ''I'm going to call up Madame Cheruit and tell' her I expect that frown of cold tissue and luce In time for dinner tonight. I'll wear that chain of emeralds that I bought for mother and all toy own emeralds and diamond bracelets and pins. I'll be a blaze of 8 lory if not u Joyous sh:ht- I'll look what I am, a girl who has nothing hut money a girl whose mother did the heavy work on a farm, who milked the cots and made the bread, who washed the clothes and scrubbed the floors until oil gush ed out of the old spring. If I do happen to meet Robert McLean and his fiancee, I will doubtless prove a brilliant contrast to Cer- aldino E aires, whose family have had culture and money for generations." 'Hush, Lille. You know you will be as you always are, the most aristocratically lovely girl in the room whether you are decked in jewels or are notable by their absence." All the day long Llllemay was etles6. She kept poor Antoinette Norton moving every minute. When the lmnre&jlonable French count made his appearance to escort them to Lea Ambaasadsur's, he ex claimed at sight of her: "Ah, le lion Dieu la good to me, Mftdam- oisello. He has gladden my eyes with the sight of you in that gold en gown. It look like an orl- fiamraa tipped with the fire of your gorgeous hair. I am arraid to come near you left Z be consum ed." Lille said nothing. Slie did not even smile. Mia Norton, for fi-ar that Lille's peculiar mood would draw atten tion to her pile face, answered for her: "That Is very flattering, count. Lille has of ton told me he loved a graceful compliment." 'I only live .o Interest Madam c belle Lille." Still the girl did not answer. , "You must iy more attention, Lille," ahe whispered as they en tered the restaurant, The count has naked you the same question three or four times bifwe yoj an Kwered." "Ah, there ia Monal.Mir McLean with another beautiful woninn," ttald the count as tiie major-domo escorted them to a table quite near them. "Are all your country wo men beautiful, lr.adanioUJ'lle?" "Yes, count," Lille answered, "but our men a:e not aa gallant as tho Trench." And forthwith she bcenn to flirt with him until his head was really turned. "I am coming to your country In a few months." he declared. "Will you have a welcome for me?" "Always, but when you arrive at my heme, which Is In that historic city of Hollywood, you will ee so many very beautiful girls that you won't thin: me worth your no tice." Count LoVcI!e, with nn anient look, carried Lille's hand to his Mjm, and at that moment she caught tho eye of Hubby Mi Lean. She bowed with an Indifferent .omilo and turned lo th count with a look v.hl?1! seemed to say. "There is no one here imong all those peo ple who crtn int?re.st me but you." i alias Nortou, who aat nearest the table where the McLean party were sitting, hoard the girl ask, "ltobert, who la that gl)riou gir to whom you have just bowed?" I have been watching her ever since she cams In. She la lovely enough to turn the head of even an American. Do you know her well, Uob I" "Not very. Sha la the daughter of one of tnoao tsaormounly rich American! of California who have made thei- money in oil. I believe sho has been over hero at school and traveling about the continent for tho last five or jlx years." GeraMlpo Kamcs looked curloua ly at Hubert McLin. His voice .-cornel so different fro Ha usual tune. Ho was white aa the nap. kin he was ulng to bruh his lips, "Aren't yo-j .vll, aon," aaked his mother solicitously. "IVrfectly. Hut tha air acems ttiflin,? In hro. Jerry, do you mind Koin across to Le Doyen for our coffee?" Even LtlU heard the last sen tence, for Robert had raised hit voice. "Count," Iio said, "don't you think it would be amusing if we look our coffee at Le Doyen? Ws could sit there out under the sklea. I think there U a moon. At least there was una last night, Tho whole world wis filled with Its radiance." Sho raised her voice a little until every word mwt have been heard at the table whero McLean was sitting. "List night the moon seemed to mo more beautiful than it had ever seamed to me in America. But 1 am quite sure I shall enjoy the mooonlight tonight. You wilt not boie me." "And who was the escort, mad amoiellc, who made the moonlight unique?" Cuunt LuYcIle asked. "One of my own countryman who fihouli never try to bo ro- runilj even In the moonlight." Monday An Inciting K veiling, papital Journal Want AdQ "Iring Resulls Try Thru Mitchell's Demotion General Mitchell has suffered the usual fate of army officers who criticise the policies of the autocrats of the general staff. He has been demoted from brigadier-general ' to colonel and relieved of command of air forces. He will be lucky if he is not court-martialed and discharged. It is an interesting coincidence that on the day General Mitchell is removed for insisting upon the necessity of a reorganization of aircraft service, officers of anti-aircraft " defense"! admitted defeat in tests at Fortress Monroe "Virginia, wh-re anti-aircraft guns failed to score in a single hit and illuminating devices failed to pick-up aircrafts flying in darkness. Mitchell's punishment also follows shortly after Admiral Sims had testified before the congressional investigating committee declaring that the battleship is now obsolete and that future conflicts will depend upon aircraft, thus sustaining the position taken by Mitchell. The truth of the situation seems to be that the national defense depends upon obsolete war craft, powerless before attacking aircraft, and that our own aircraft development has been so badly neglected that only a few war planes are avail ble for defense and none of these a match for the super-war plnnes that the Germans are building for Japan or that Britain and France are constructing for their own defense. General Mitchell has rendered a valuable public service by bringing out the facts regarding the weakness of the national defense and the official condemnation of the red-tape bureaucrats, who are still living in a day that has passed, will only serve to popularize him. OBJECTIONS STRONG SALE WASHINGTON SCHOOL ANY PRICE (Continued from page uto) plan for tho future," saya lr. It. J' I'jund. "in most eastern cities iti large or larger than ftnlem, in finitely more narkq and )ay grounils are kept up than may be fouti'l anywhere In the wet." Iir. Pound mentioned Jefferson. Mo., Topcka, Kan, and Cenevn and Hyr.UMse, New York as cltlea with beautiful park syKtems. lVo plo get so much enjoyment nut of Wilson park, erq cclally In the sum nwr ean, that 1 r. rutin d be lieves that proportionate enjoy ment will be found In any addition al parks that the city may pro Vide. "Tho prlco of $11,000 Is iMiru Jouwly low, na corner lots within one block of lth a.nd Center are selling for $M00," nrilutahiH lr l'oun-1. "Am an Investment the biok la worth much more than the pric offered. We could wre.-k the hultillng, burn all the m.iteri.il. nnt! uh3 llu grmnd for a park and luKi-un 1 to much better advan tage than to diNpo.se of tho prop erty for private purpose, lilm-k Worth Siln.ono "f think ll'O property Hlnnihl be kept.'" assert h (s.- ir I'rb-e. 'The bulld'ug cost ISO.QOO, I ufuler t:ui'l. The tlm'ier Ih still K""1. nud thorn ar-1 enough gM w and ine'al flxnre in it to brin mere th.in hMio should bo huil l.ni; be perapped. I hive ft;me.l out th.it tl.? block would brlnif nmr th.ui S L' 0.000. To ko ant an 1 buy a J;lcco of propcrt V lil; this blnek a few year he'ic. one will h.ivo to put up nt le.xpt $: 0.000, X i-.-be-e." "That Was. l in "I on sc'icto prop erty eh-ml i be kpt n n p i k or recre.iilnn place." declares C.iarle.s A. Park. "Kcr nil the nclwol l ard can get out of It at the present time they would do better to keep It." "I believe it H a fine idea to use this ground f r public purpose If the s?hool board Ia financially able lo carry tiie property until It can ne piircno-se-t iy the city, :ivorb J. C. l'erry. Future Need KttrMN-n "S met line there's going to he a need for that kind of proptrty," declares Charl'n Archc-.l. "I never like lo e- n .nhool board or a city sell fine propetty like that, no matter what they got out of it. Either the school board should keep the Washington property or tho city should buy It and keep It, for one or the other will nave use lr It In the fufire. NEW STATUTE DELAYS ROAD ACTIVITIES (Continued from Pago One) way of Hat tie creek to the Sunuy aide district. To Tan Greatest Need. "Tho road we propose." itateil McKinuey, "will go through a sec tion whero there aro rflne prune tlrfers in tho three miles, indicat ing that It Is a highly developed uetcion.' lie dec la red that when the bond iasue program was being made up tho people in that end slept on UK'lr rights. The whole territory from the Southern Pacific to the Willamette between Jefferson and Salem was practically Ignored. Wi f hd It has worked out aril right Hut the time has come to selec now roads. We have sat In the mud nil these years and now ho Leve we huvi a rilit to he recog nized." Me mentioned the fact that in that section are many pi neer lamihes. who nave been pay ing taxes since is -Id or 1 SI 7 for the genet al good of the county with small nsull in local im provements Tr tlietnsehi. "If the people In (ho Hattle creek section can show you that their road Is hitter than ourn an I of more benefit to the county 1 will not utter a word of protest.' aid Mi Kinu . "Hut t hey en n't ahow you." ie added. Stitte AnnroTiil Needed Cou my .hi dee Hutu iu slating that it will he '.'0 diys before a i unity pioi:i ua can he determined on definitely,' stated that uudir house bill No 4. which becomes a la . at that 'tine, the county court is reiiuircd to map out it.s prorratn and hm it it to tho highway torn miss'ou ond that rommisHlon ran approve or irjoct it. "Wo never have had any trouble with the commission and expect none with our program, hut naturally wo cannot say what the program will to until the highway commission has passed on it," wlatcd Judge Hunt. "If there me i,ny grades over K per rent on vour road they must e eliminate !,' said County Com missioner Smith. "The highway I'omuils-ih n will r.ot approve road? with stiff gradej-.. BRINGING UP FATHER Bv Gonrce MrManus COME ON- SW DCMN tovjn "WE'LL CO TO ROVW'a CiLL TONIGHT. r I'll CO home FtRw- MCia l-b IM FNE HUMOR. vs,AMT TO KEEP Tht WA.lT RICiHT HERE - I'M CONNN A.'K. MSCCIE. If" i in co oot. rui iba WITH VOO IM A. 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