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CapitalJIJournal
Salem, Oregon
An Tnannlnt Kewppp 1'ubliahed Krrry Evenlnr Ept Sunday
Telephone 81; Newt 82
ClKOIUiK PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Verily, verihi. I say unto you. If a man keep my Beijing,
he shall nTr see death. John 8:51.
Showing Their Colors
Why do many of our city newspapers, and we regret to see
the custom aped by small town papers also, deem it necessary
to mar appearance and increase the difficulties of perusal by
inserting sheets of as many colors as Joseph's famous coat?
Do not the scare-heads scream loud enough to attract atten
tion? It is necessary to make confusion worse confounded
in this age of jazz ?
Colored paper was used for block-typed dodgers and stud
horse posters to take the place of the town-crier in the days
before the development of newspaper advertising, presumably
because the colors appealed to childish curiosity and led to
opening suid investigating the fly-by-night notice. For the
same reason it is still utilized in the hick towns where the
moss-back merchants use posters instead of papers, clinging
to the ways of a bye-gone day. But for the newspapers, pages
of varied colors are a comparative innovation.
How the custom originated, we do not know, but it has had
a surprising development as a feature of flash journalism.
The first color used was pink, for a sports section, presum
ably after the English sporting paper "The-Pink-Un" or our
own delectable "Police Gazette," the color pink having become
associated with sports because of the scarlet coats, called
pinks, worn by fox-hunters, hence by extension, fox-hunters
and finally sportsmen. So a pink paper meant a sporting
paper.
Perhaps red or pink is a correct color to denote profes
sional sport, for red appears at the lower end of the visible
spectrum and is therefore emblematic of lower intelligence.
Theosophists give red to the baser passions, like anger, and
hold the less developed spiritually and intellectually, the more
primitive, the redder and less luminous the astral body.
If pink may be said to be emblematic of sports, blue is
equally symbolic as the color of devils, yellow as the emblem
of the cowardly and contemptible, and green of the half-
baked, so perhaps all these colors and their blends are suitable
hues for modern newspapers catering to moron majorities.
SOLUTION OF YKSTKKDAVS
Westernizing the Espee
Retirement of Julius Kruttschnitt as chairman of the
executive committee and of the board of directors of the
Southern Pacific Company on May 31 after 48 years con
tinuous service, means transfer of the executive and oper
ating head to the Pacific coast from New York. Supervision
of operations, heretofore exercised by Mr. Kruttschnitt
will be under the direction of the president, William Sproule
at San Francisco. Only the financial headquarters will
remain in New York.
The change will be beneficial both for the company and
the region it serves, for a western railroad cannot be managed
as successfully from a Wall street office 3000 miles away as
from-an office with the necessary authority, located in the
heart of the system. Necessarily long-distance management
gets out of touch with the public it caters to, for the view
point is different and often divergent.
Mr. Sproule is a western product, first entering the employ
of the Southern Pacific in 1882 as a freight clerk at San
Francisco, and With the exception of five years in New York,
has spent his life on the coast, being company president since
1911. Under his regime, progressive policies have been
followed that have gained public confidence and made the
railroad a cooperative factor in the development of the terri
tory it serves.
Since Mr. Kruttschnitt became chief executive, following
the dissolution of the Harriman merger with the Union
Pacific in 1913 the Southern Pacific lines have grown from
10,000 miles and $143,000,000 gross annual earnings to
155,550 miles and $300,000,000 earnings. An even greater
growth is probable in the coming decade, with a western man
in sympathy with the west and its development directing
anairs.
Congested School
Areas to be Shown
On Chart of Salem
That the ttalem achool board
has been hearing (he echoes of
criticisms orer the til suae of the
Wuahlnrc'cn school hutliliiiK be
came evident at a board mcethiK
Inst night. It has become a well
knnwu fat In rtalem that many
people of the city do not believe
reports to the effect that the con
KontiMl ilitttrlrte of the cltr are
elsewhere than In the WutihltiRlon
vlrtnlty and that there are not
fuifrfirietit rhHihvn mailable nt-.ir
the Washington (o justify openiiu
the building. Many Halemites
have been open In their skepticism'
of the report.
At lasrt. niftht's board meeting
action was taken which will re
suit In a map or the city being pre
pared, showing the ex net location
of every school child In the city
The board':. Idea to make thin
map available to all doubter,
showing them Just where the con
Rested part ot Halem are. and
members of the board obvloualy
expect that the map will show a
dearth of school chlldrea within
walking dialance of the Washing
ton school.
Doctors Utter and Downs, repre
'venting the parent-teacher's asso
ciation of South Salem, appeared
be for the board and entered a
plea for a new grade school build
irig to be built In 8outh Ralem, re
placing the Lincoln school.
Details acted upon by the board
Including authorising a fence to
he built at the weat end of the Mc
Kfnley school jrrounds, referring
bide on wood for me coming year
to the supplies committee with
power to act, and authorising In
creases In the salaries of secretar
ies to the city superintendent, the
high achoov principal and the Par-
riRh junior high school principal
Secretaries salaries were raised a
follow:
Superintendent's secretary. $90
to $115; hih school principal'
secretary. J7u to SE; Junior high
Hehooi principals secretary, $ti
tn (75. The chnupea will go hit
effect next school year.
Kdf.ar Tihuita, treasurer of the
high school student body, su limit
ted a financial report. According
to the report the Mudent body
treasury is now J37S0.I6 ahead.
but the report showed that prac
tically all ot the amount would he
lined. Klvo hundred dollars was
Kivcn to tho board for the purpose
of Improving the athletic field
east of the Tarrtah Junior high
school. The money was accepted
ana win he added to by the board
Work Is expected to begin soon
on improving the field. Ixnt
year's senior class pave a sum
slightly under $200 for the ex
press purpose of having it used on
the athletic field, asking that an
arch of some kind he built with
the money. The arch will b built
wherever the entrance Is located.
Sure Relief
FOR INDIGESTION
THE CAPITAL J0UlAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1925
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7Ylen, Mothers autf Wlaids
A Romantic Serial of Modern Life
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON
THE AVTI TRUTH
"Lille your mother Is a living
flams. She must be fed with fuel
for her brain and heart every min
ute. "For the last two years I hare
been able to bring It to her.
"It you and I find that when
I reach home, I can no longer do
so. I am sure what she will do.
Lille's heart almost stopped beat
lng for she too dt-t not know what
her mother would do when he
found out tiie awful trutn.
Am tar as ah herself was con
cerned. Harold Kennedy had
shown himself a cad. What
would her mother do when she
found It out? All at once it came
to her that morning; when ahe rend
that direful letter from Robert Mc
Lean which apelled for her the end
cf the world. Would all the world
turn black to her mother when
ahe thought that Harold did noi
lov herT Would all t-.e earth
setm a molten ball, burning up
her very soul? Was it possible
that after a woman waa as old as
her mother That love might hold
even a greater place in her life
than in one as youn? an herself?
She began to be a little worried
ever the crarj'ing out of her plan,
The loss ot her mother's money
had never entered it. To lose one's
money n well as one's love would
be an added agony with which she
hud not reckoned.
"HaroM," h pleaded, "won't
you try to Influence mother to
take back that part of the oil field
she has given me."
"No, dear, I do not think X con
do that."
"Why not?
"Because the time has come
when your mother will have to
Hhoulder nomo responsibility. All
the thrill of Irresponsibility is now
ovor, 1 have found lately that she
Is going from one thing to anotner
ly In constant longing to una
something nu. She will nave to
work to be hippy. Surely you can
aee that, Lille, can ycu not?"
'No. Harold, I confejs I cannot
tea It. My mother had enough
hard work and reJiniioUHy wnen
I was a little girl to Ust her not
only through her mortal life but
through all eternity. You say she
will not want to be dependent up
on me end I have aaknl you to try
to make her independent again.
This you positively refuse to do
l-ecause you wish her to become
what you are pkHtawd to call "res
fioneible' You wish to cut her
beautiful butterfly wing, that
have now become a indwpensr
able to her. You want to mak
her a axub again. Don't you know
that a buttorf'y can never ajaln
go back to being a grub?
"If you will not help nfe lo keep
her ba ahe is, a Joyous, happy.
beautiful butterfly, 1 nha'.l try to
do it myself."
"You don't seem to know your
mother, Lille, but that Is not
at range. You have been so long
away from her. You never saw her
in this guise. I know, underneath
all her butterfly Inclinations, there
is a longing to do something more
than Juet to live for herwlf from
Cay to day.
"If I know her, nnd I think I do,
when she finds out the real ftate
of her affairs, she will not let
cither of us do anything for her.
She will work out her own salva
tion.
"Lille, your mother Is a very
wonderful woman."
"You need not tell . me that,
Harold. It is because ahe is so
wonderful, It la because ahe baa
nlwaya been to wonderful that I
want her now to have her reward."
Well," enld Harold Kennedy
with a sigh, aa he turned to walk
away, "all we will have to do la to
wait and Re. '
Lille felt she could stand It no
longer. Here was this n an. whom
ht bad distrusted from the firm.
calmly telling her that he expected
to desert her mother if when h
arrived in Hollywood ho fount
hat he had lost the most of her
money. He wa? counseling her own
Oaug'iter to do the same.
Lille could not account for it in
;.ny other wiy than that, knowing
t.t-r mother had not the means to
further the scheme which he had
intended lo put Into operation
when he arrive! In Hollywood, ho
waa t:-i"g to Influence her daugh
ter to keen the money her mother
had given her, hoping that ha
could make Lille hereelf caro
enough for him to turn over her
share of the money.
She waa well aware that Harjld
was afraU If she returned the gift
deed to her moth or, Mrs. Vail
would think that as this was her
only income property ahe could
not motguge it to further his
ech ernes.
"It Is a very clever Idea," was
Lille's conclusion, "but It won't
work."' However, nhe Uk missed
form her mind the wh?lo thing bo
cause night was falling, and tho
cause night waa falling, and she
hoped again to talk to Rob.
Tomorrow -Mother or Daughter?
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