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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925,
CapitalJtJournal
Balem, Oregon
A a Independent Newspaper rublihM Kvery Evening Kxcept Bunday
Telephone hi; New 13
CUOKOK PUTNAM, Kditor and Publlnher
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE
Wherefore the rather, biethcrn, aire diligence to make
your calling and election mire: for if ye do these things, ye
thnll never fail. Peter 1:10.
Three Valley Crops
Announcement that Bruce Cunningham, largest grower
of loganberries in the valley, has plowed up his berryfield of
105 acres and abandoned an industry which five years ago
netted him over $300 an acre, signalizes the passing of what
promised to be the valley's most profitable crop, one that had
attracted national attention and for which there seemed a
wonderful future.
The loganberry has not yet recovered from the demoral
ization following the agricultural collapse of 1920-1. After
the-war inflation had sent prices to a height that caused a
buyers strike and in the ensuing depression, canneries,
processing and juice manufacturing plants throughout fruit
d'stricts were forced into bankruptcy and the loganberry
hardest hit of all, lost the national market created by wide
spread publicity.
Since then the loganberry grower has had a hard time to
dispose of his output at a profit, and the acreage is being
gradually reduced as growers become discouraged and drop
out. As the crop is cut, the surplus will be wiped out, and the
prices will become better, even if without systematic effort
to restore the industry.
The loganberry will be stabilized and take its place with
the raspberry, the blackberry and the strawberry, as a profit
able crop, under the economic law of supply and demand,
though it will probably never yield the fortunes promised and
actually made during the great loganberry boom of a few
years ago.
... .-There is another of our most profitable crops in which
many fortunes have been made, also going the way of the
1' ".nl.crry the hop industry.
The Willamette valley is peculiarly fitted by nature for
the production of hops, hops sought the world over because
unsurpassed for flavor and quality. Hops have been as ideal
a crop for our river bottom lands, subject to annual overflow,
as the loganberry for our uplands.
The Volstead act, which forbids the production of beer, for
which hops are used almost exclusively, is responsible for the
destruction of the great hop industry of the valley. The
acreage in hops has shrunk to a third of its former size and
is diminishing yearly. Were it not for the foreign demand, a
demand much curtailed by embargoes by governments in
favor of home industry, this only remaining market would
be lost. Only the clandestine illegal operations of breweries
in the east, defying the Volstead act, and the pound package
demand, both limited, remain to create an American hop
market.
Modification of the Volstead act, to permit making light
wines and beer, would save the hop industry and stimulate
the berry industry by offering a market for surplus fruit for
wine but while likely to come eventually, it is distant
at present.
What are we going to get to replace the loganberry and
the hop to provide a profitable crop for our farmers and
factories for our cities, and fill the gaps caused by their loss?
What other crop can the valley produce, for which it is
ideally situated with superior climatic advantages? There
is but one, that we know of, and that is flax.
Flax grown in the Willamette valley is as superior to other
flax as our hops arc superior to other hops and it is demon
strated that linens made from it cannot be excelled anywhere
in the world.
A market for flax products is assured as the United States
imports annually over $100,000,000 linen products. The
industry cannot be overdone, as but few places can raise
flax fit for fibre.
Flax then, points the way to our salvation, the eventual
creation of a vast textile industry in the valley to furnish a
market for our farmers and payrolls for our city, and pros
perity for all. '
The way to start this needed industry is to build the
proposed linen mill and you can do your share by subscribing
to its stock, and thus secure one prof ij able crop to replace
the two no longer profitable.
Older Girls to Hold
Next Conference In
Eugene; Pick Heads
Rutins ii U'riluy Mlrrtt'd
lor the annuiil Older illrla' confer
ence In 1926. D.itcj fur the con
firence wero tentatively a-t at th
weekend following Knter. It if
hoped to bold three ronferenee in
OrnRon Instead of ono, consider
able difficulty belnK experienced
In traveling from all part of the
state to one place of nicotine. If
present plana of thoao in charge
of the conference are curried out
two other clliw In Oregon will be
selected aa meeting; places.
A niornina; watch was held nt
8:30 Sunday morning. A talk.
Who Are My Slsteraf given l
Miss Sumie Yamamoto at this
time, wna declared to one of the
outstanding features of the con
ference. The speaker, a nallve of
Japan, has been In the I'nltrU
States for II years, and Is atti
dent of Llntield college. M lea Or I
Henthorne, pastor's assistant at
the First Presbyterian church of
Portland, read the last chapter of
"The Ufa of Christ,' at yeaterdiy
mornnjR'a meeting. Mlsa Anna
Peraehovich. an Alaskan Indian,
related an account ot the altua
tion In the Prince of Walea islands
of Alaska.
In the afternoon delegstea were
elected to the national Older Glrla'
conference at Oeneva Olen, near
Denver, which la to be held next
summer. Delegate ckoaea were
Miaa Hales Hawk of Pacifle uni
versity at .Torest Ortrve, Mlsa
Kathryn Seclye ot Eugene hlRii
.u-liool. Mlsa Anna IVrachov leh.
now living at t'heiiiawa. Mis:
.Mary Cole ot Monmouth, Mm'
Susie Church of Salem. Miw Until
K. Hi of Salem. Miss Ksthei
S.'hoessler of IJnfteld college and
-Miss Ksllier Maurer of Portland
The two Solem girla are eturfenl;
In Willamette university. Alter
nates chosen were Miss Eleano:
K.ixtmas of Portland. Miss Nettie
Singleton of Portland, anil Mlsr
Sumie Yomaranto of I. infield col-
Icce. Thro of the delegates are
to have their expene.es paid; the
rest go at their own expense.
Officers for Iho coming ear.
elected Saturday night, are as fol
lows: Mies lluth K. II os of Silent,
senior In Willamette universtly.
president; Miss Dorothy Shaw ol
Portland. vice-president: Mias
Nettle Singleton of Portland, secretary-treasurer.
Miss Susie
Church of rialem. Junior In Wil
lamette, la the retiring president
A aeries of resolutions were
adopted before adjournment yea-tsrday.
Oddo Pawnor! Svstem.
Washington. Anrll JO The t..
aire of the Waanlngton govern
ment to abolish nssMDort via fM
for all except Immigration pass
ports baa been communicated to
all countries by tbt state depart
menu
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HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE
The war to arrive (be crow word Puzzle i lo fill In Ihe white
square of Iho diagram with the words which acre? with Ihe arcora
Kiii)in)jr definition. The def.itkma are numbered to correspond with
Ihe numbers on the diagram.
Any word defined lo Hie text onfler 'IIOHIZON'TAL will beptn
at Its iiunlM.-r, fthrmn on Ihe diagram, ami will e&tcnd ell tho way
across to ihe first blirk simre lo ilio right of lhat number. That U,
ihe word mwrt bee In In live frqu-ire that coutalns It klentlf)luc num
ber, nud extend as far as the wlilie squares cooiliiue uninterrupted. 7
Any word denned under MVTTITICI- will also bejrin. In the white
space that contains Its number, but will extend downward as far as
the white spaces renualn uninterruptedly.
VERTICAL
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5. Siitflu (ucd lo fori plural.)
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III. olili.t M-abon of year (pi.)
12. t-:xprc'.lon of liuiutiente
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17. f (emote
II. Plunk
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Men, Mothers and Maids
A Romantic Serial of Modern Life
By IDA II McGLONE GIBSON
TI! K Cl'HSG OP COLD
"Yes that does sound silly
Lille," Ovid Marchmont said when
Lille intlmaud he stood ready to
help Mrs. Vail out of her financial
diliicultles. "Mellbsy knows that
I would be very glad to help her
ty plaoing every cent of tny re
Kourcei at her disposal but sho his
declined peremptorily ta borrow a
dollar.
"She also told me that Harold
had advised not to borrow fnjm
friends or relatives."
"In that he is ripht," said Non
nle unexpectedly. "I kmY that if 1
were in her position that 1 would
ta!to financial assistance only from
strangers. I have known more
fiiendchips blasted and mor fam
ilies broken up by mudlled money
transactions than fiom any other
caui-e."
"I am afraid Harold has fright
ened mother into thinking that
nay, for she will not take back
even the property she has just giv
en mc and si;e is rather stubborn
about it."
Just then Mrs. Vail cinio Into
the din in,? room with a smiling
"(iood morning" and produced that
awkward silence that always fol
lows the unexpected entrance of
the person under discussion.
Waiting until she wo seated
Mr. Marchmont eald, 'Metissy:
won't you conffratulat.i me?'
'Oh, they put out th-s fires be
fore they reached your wells," ex
claimed Mrs. Vail. I saw by tho
papers last night that there w.-.g
grave dangor of the flames reach
irg your wells. , I do congratulate
you, Ovid, with all my heart.
Again everybody was uncom
fortably silent. .Lille felt an hys
terical desire to lauh, and tnen in
turn a desire to cry, for she knew
that her mother had not the slight
est notion why Uncle Ovid wished
to be congratulated.
She ondertd If It were possible
that her mother were one of those
r omen who might not love a man
well enough to marry him, yet
who would be extremely jealous of
any other woman. j
She be?an to b very sorry fori
her mother who had lost, not only!
a large part of her wealth but the)
man who hai b?en devoted to hrri
for so long that he had probably j
trown to feel htm Indispensable ,
in her scheme of life. J
Mother.' she interposed, wMi-j
in? to Kat the whole thing over as
i-.oon os poaalMe, "Uncle Ovid is
not asiiing your congratulations on
the sivin of his oil wells al
though the morning piper snya
they have b'-n saved. He is ask
ing yiiir congratulations on his
approaching marriag"."
Mr. Vail turned pale. She
looked uncertainly first At March
mont and then at Miss Norton.
"It is" she began hesitat
ingly. "Ye, mother. It Is Nonnie."
"Then I do congratulate you.
Ovid, with all my heart. Nmnle is
perhaps the one woman in all the
world that I culd see you marry
vith the sure conviction that ehe
will make you happy the remain
der of your life.
"Antoinette, you are Indeed for
tunate. Fate has given you the
one man I know, puer sans re
I roche. '
She turned her head quickly.
"Isn't thit Harold -join? out on
the platform? Please give nie the
pleasure of telling your hainft-s
to him."
Mrs. V:iil .irosc from her ciirt'r
hastily ar.d left the room. From
where she aat Lille could see the
side of her face and knew that tit
tear bad betjun t coarse dowu
her cheeks, bhe was sure, how
ever, that the others had not no
tlced them.
"X didn't hear Harold go out,"
eald Marchmont Innocently.
At th's the two women exchang
ed a glance of con.prehenskn and
.Ills again re mark ei that Nonni
wea a very understanding woman.
Mrs. Vail did not make her ap.
I earun e at lunchson. She sent
word that she was very busy, get
ting her things In shape so that she
tould go directly to her lawyers
from the train when she reached
Los Angeles.
Neither was Harold Kennedy
seen by any of the party. He told
Mr. Marchmont who knocked at
his door to inquire If he weie ill
that he haj some important pap
ers to look over and sign before ha
rt ached home.
Lille left the newly engaged pair
to them.selvcs directly after break
fast and retired to her room where
she was soon making up for her
yteepless night. She told Nonnie
who came to her Just before
luncheon that shrt was going to stay
in her room to sleop until they ar
rived at the Btilion. "I am just
brginning to know that I am
irjghtfiilly tired ns well as Bleepy,1
the said. "I am quite sure that I
Khali not be misled. With mothei
and Harold and Uncle Ovid and
you, you ought to know, Nonnli
ih-re Is no place for me."
BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManua
F by collv ; thi-s prino f ill! co tee. ) WCTl I 'the. ) f ( -te-b-biR-BOT Y I i I ( ,,.. II
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