CiV. .TWO
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1925
CapitalJtJournal
iUltm. Oreioi
A tndepndiit Ne-spapw Publnbed wrr trenlng txeept Sunday
Telepbon, II; newi 81
GUORtiU PUTNAM. Editor ind Publisher
A Busted Boom
What has become of the heralded era of prosperity,
ushered in by the election of Calvin Coolidge as president,
which sent Wall street stocks and securities booming ..nd
sky-rocketed the price of wheat? Here we are, less than
thirty days after inaugural day, with stocks at the lowest
level of the year and wheat down to what it was before we
heard the glorious election news.
No sooner had the votes been counted than prices of all
stocks began to rapidly advance until they had reached the
highest notch in years, and wheat for the third time in
fifty years climbed above the $2 mark. Thus did big bus
iness react to celebrate the defeat of Davis and LaFollette.
But the deflation has been more rapid than the inflation and
prices are sagging to pre-election basis.
All of which is proof that prosperity rests upon economic
land industrial conditions and not on politics and that the
claims of politicians that prosperity, other than their own,
depends upon their return to office, is the purest kind of
bunk.
There was nothing, outside of politics, to justify a boom
in the stock market, no increased earnings or development
in prospect to base it upon. Following election came the
depression in the textile industry with heavy wage cuts.
Then came the seasonal slump in the lumber industry, fol
lowed by the bankruptcy of the great St. Paul trans
continental railroad system. Now the bituminous coal indus
try faces collapse, all part of a delayed after-the-war
readjustment and a liquidation needed to bring down costs of
c -oration and living too long artificially inflated.
There is, however, every reason to believe that business
conditions will steadily improve during the year. A good
crop will be the main factor. Industrial production is stabil
izing itself. Building shows no sign of curtailment, and
unemployment is steadily diminishing. Politics, however, has
little to do with it.
The great Coolidge business boom is neither lost, strayed
nor stolen. It has busted.
A Course for Sissies
According to the Corvallis Gazette-Times, the public
schools of that thriving city, probably taking the cue from
the enterprising Oregon Agricultural College, have installed
a cour.se in cooki ig for boys. It remarks:
Wo lenrii iUrollKh tlio medium of the sprightly III-O.Scojic Hint Hie
Sorvnllis tnxpaycrs are conducting cooklne srhool fur boya. Many
or Hum probably did not know this. We wonder what the rounders
of 111" free educational system would think now If they could witness
the riot or money spcndlirl; In the so-called education system, that
Includes the study of everything under the sun except those things
ror which tree schools wero founded. The tnxpayers are patient.
They let the uplifters run the schools nnd they pay the bills.
Why not? The main object of schools nowadays is no
longer to provide education in fundamentals, but to amuse,
entertain and give the pupils a chance to have a good time,
f the huskies have a special instructor and specialize in
athletics, why shouldn't the sissies play at cooking? It may
be useful later when wifey becomes the bread-winner,
Courses in sewing, housekeeping and baby nursing should be
added to make course complete.
Then there are the parents and teachers to be considered
The more subjects taught, the more jobs for teachers. The
more things shoved on the schools, the more leisure for the
parents. Only the taxpayer objects and he has learned
the futility.
TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL
1. That wlik-li radiate html
. ftliiJnyan (nb.)
. To abscond
10. I'riM-ioujj Htone
I J. 1'rrfU (L.)
IS. Salt (L.)
15. ('4injuuri.ua
17. Tlilrk gruel
IV. liiukli.jc emd
20. Coiiict-ance
23. M.iulen loved by J u niter
It.trk of neck
27. Aiiurk on fortified place
30. I'FHKillfUt of cJotU
At. Mure powerful
HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE
Tbo way to lolre tbe Crow Word rtrad li Co fill lu the while,
Mttaraa of the diagram wtththe word which acrce with tbe ftccom
Minjr.iuj definition. Tbe ilcfUailous aro numbered to correspond witli
tu nuiubcre on Uia o lag-rasa.'
Any word denned in the text under nOKtZO.VTAL will beetn
mt lu number, I town on le dueraui and will extend U the wny
crow to the first black apace to the ritfht of that number. That U,
lite word meat begin In tlie iju.iro that contains Ua tdcatifjlnc num
ber, and extend u for as the white squares continue imuilcrruptcrlly
Any word denned under "TErrnCAT." win also begin, In the white
space tiiat corn a Ins Its number, but will extend dowuward M fur as:
tne unite ajtucea renuiui nnhitcrruptcdly.
SOLITIO.N OF VKSTKltilA V'b'
I'tj.I.K
Work was begun t,li oiorninE
on rt'liulldliiK the Salem boa thou sc
owned by Ci.pluin J. Spong. Ills
boalhou-10, with the bathhouse ad
joining was crushed by the ice
which covered Hie WJllumntte riv
er from hank to hank lute lust De
cember. The bathhouse, which
was owned by Charles K. Dent son.
will not be rebuilt, Mr. Dcnfsoo
stated thin morning.
The new boa thou we will mena
II Be 26 by 36 feet, being somewhat
lurgur than the limine that wan de
ft royed. It 1h being built on a
float lai-ftc eiiuuiiit in allow for u
trip of platform four feet wide
rn three ttlden. tt will bo large
enough o hold 15 canoes.
The five largo Iorh whith will
ivipporl the house were fastened
t'git her with heavy rrosttlienm
t'day. Tlie loga were in the Wil
l:.nu!ttc ;i;.ur;h near the Kp.iutdint;
luiuWr null. The float w ill be
towed to u point immediately he
low the warehouse used by the Sa
l.tii Towing & Tiiimpoitatiim
company, w hK h ororaten the
Nor I hwcMrru on t lu Vill:imeit'
river hi'tnn Saietn nnd l'ortliMid
1'he new titration nf the boolhmtnv
h n frw feet In-low the potn
Alien it was fitrmerlv muom).
Mr. Sinus has. stated that he
experts to have tho boat house fin
ished within two weeks. A crew
of three men will work on It.
OREGON TAX
LEVY OVER
$12,000,338
(Continued from p.-iKe iiih
1924 Is $42.C6fl.338.G5. InolmlinR
J111.S42.15 for firs patrol. c
cnnling to s ululenienl made pub
lic today Iiy thdslnlo tax rominls
lon. Kxoluiline fire patrol tlie
total is SI2.R4R. 9 r.0.
Thf irvornl rlassps of laxpj total
as follows:
Stats. $7,492,761.47: county.
f.1.X3.!8 26: ronnty school anil
srhoo! lihrnry, $.i.0ir..6B S2;
hleh ailiool tuition. I79S.118 :
IMYtat school. $9,409.11 R.S5 :
Rcncral roads. IJ.IfM.Si',! 42;
special roads. $ 1 ,22(!,r42 1 S ;
market roads (county levy).
Hl.r,!)S47: bond Interest and re
demption. 11. CM. 2717 2S: Kpcrlal
cities and towns. $7. 711. 271 09:
IrriK.itlon nnd drainage. $l.f!ir,
2f.0.f.9: iorts. $l.4riA.27 97: nils,
celliiiienus. S :! ? . B 0 I (IS.
Last ye:ir Hie tot;il evrluslvp of
fire patrol was $ tfl.1 r,r,.IISS SO.
The fire p.itml '"lHvv was $r.9,
r.r.S.ll. ni.iklnr total with that In
ctiiiln,) in.?;i.7M 41
For Marlon and l'olk counties
the fieures on this vear'f and
last vear'u levies eti'lipa'c is fi'l-Inww
1 JIa YMJAlRls
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4. Kvrryoiie
5. 'n-lrcrapli ofrico (ab.)
t. D.M'llMTS
?. IVar limb from limb
8. Cut dona
1 1. Ijancungc of XjoplaiM
1. IiAcotirr
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en iiir. 1
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Copyright isxi Gcorxs Mattbew Adams
28. l'sl to form comparative 29. Fourteenth letter hi alphabet
(suffix)
men, motheis and maids
A Romantic Serial of Modern Life
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON
1UJI OWN DAVGI1TKK
Th next xy Vlrm. Vail and her
whole party embarked In their ape
clal car fur Hollywood,
Juat as they stepped on boar
Mr. Marchmont received tele-
icram. Aa he read It a peculiar s
preMlon flitted acrosa hi face.
,Mely1' h altX "I've bad
ncwa for you. So. tl haa beeo
drowned out by aalt water and
No. 28 above signs of It.
"Oracioua. Ovid, No. 27 wu
my larpetrt producing well and No.
28 the next. I wonder what they
will do "
'I don't know what they'll do
about No. 28, Melssy, but nothing
can be done about No. 27. It has
already been abandoned.
'J don't like the tone of Smith's
wire at all. It looka to me an
thDutyht they were bavin other
trouble. He saya he will telegraph
afCiln to Chiuffo."
"Thafa certainly bad news.
Llfsa." aaid Harold Kennedy. "U
will cut oil your Income at least
2a00 a day, which is no mall fig
ure now that by trit'ins Lille half
your operation you have cut your
Income tn two. I don't remember
that you hare another well that is
br.ngins you In more than 1000
barreto a day in your field."
"Oh, I've enough, Harold."
"You will need much capital for
that financing company, my dear."
"That's ao. I'm not going to
worry. Well telegraph Smith to
start erln king other wells Immediately."
'Mother, you ned not give me
all that oil land, you know," in
terposed Lille.
'Don't be silly, child. That U-
just Harold's croaking. That Is the
way he always talks about oil.
He wuite me to get out of It and
Into other thins. He want me to
put my money Into something that
cannot 'act up like oil well."
"By the way," interrupted
Marchmont. "talking about oil
wells acting up. that well on Lille's
half that you haj almost given up
juat before you left has developed
wonderfully. Jt is showing about
500 barrels a day, which if quite
as much, Melsny, as that one of
yours that has just bee) put out
of business by (salt water, (smith
did not know, Miii.--'. that you
had turned that p..rt of the field
over to Lille nnd he congiJinlted
you on the fact that the new well
would Just about offset your loss.-
from the other."
".My dear, I con,;r.i'uLitt? ou,"
s.-ild Mrs. Vail, turning to her
daughter, and then, aa though. uh
niiisins the subject, the begun to
talk of other things.
Lille listened a moment and
then pleading that she did not feel
strong enough. he went to bed.
Her dinner was pent ti her.
About 8 o'clock that night ahe
heard her mother talking to Har
old Kennedy just ouUide her (ioor.
"We shall have to borrow aome
money, Harold, to start that fin
ance company." he heard her
mother say. "That latest real es
tate deal made a big hole In ready
cash. I was deiendjng on 27 and
28 to pour enough 'flowing gold'
as you call It, into my baik to
start the company. I'll have to ask
Lille to help me out, although I
hate to. It makes me look like an
Indian giver. I don't think I can
raise (30,000 on my own wells now
that the two beat h?vc gone bad."
"I wouldn't ak Lille to do any
thing of the kind, 'Lifts. We'll get
along some way. She'll ask all
sorts of questions and make dif
ficulties and misunderstandings
that la not worth 500,). I Am
sure that she will hurt you, aa she
know nothing about bustne, and
he will object to giving you any
money for anyihlug counecti-d
wi'h moving pictures.
"What lire you talk lug about,
Harold? Surely you don't think
that my own daughter will object
to raising money on the proptity
1 have just given her to help me
out of some unforeseen difficul
ty?" 'She will not look nt It that way
at all, L.ssa. She will think that
I am insisting upon getting you
into something that joa oughtn't
to do. She doesn't trust me, dear.
Surely yon have seen that."
"Why, Harold. I thought that
Lille wus very much taken with
you.M
"Now, my ilt-ar, you know thai
ii because you want her to be. 1
am trying to make her like tne ho.
cause I know you want her to like
me, but think it out for yourself.
Your daughter comrs home from
ti long tay at a foreign school tc
find a strange youtii man In youi
house, in your affeotion. in you.
fullest confidence. Ia it not nat
ural that a girl who had prob
ably been thinking she was to fil:
the place she found me in would
not bo a little bit jcaious'.'"
'Oh, that breaks my heart, liar
old. I had planned on your bein
such good frienda. I think yoi
must be mistaken. I'll auk hot
about it tomorrow. Aren't you I
little bit jcaious yourself, dear.
I've affection enough for you both.
Lille is my child, but you. my dear,
have made me Imp pier than any
other person I have over known.
Tomorrow 4111st Her Moll nr.
'apttal Journal Want Ads Pay
Dr. Harold M. Brown
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