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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1925)
PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22. 1025 CapitalJIJoiirna! Ral.m. Oreron An Independent Newspaper Published Kvory Evening Eaeept Sunday Telephone tl ; News i GEOKGK PUTNAM, Edllor and Publinh.r BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY And they shall be wine, sailh tha Lord of hosts, in that daij when I make vp mtj jewels; end I will spare them, as a man sparcth his own son that serveth him. Malachi S:1T, The Cloth of Kings The proposed linen mill will establish in Salem one of the world's oldest arts and one of the most universal. The earliest records of man speak of linen making, while the tombs of the Fharoah's yield vestures of fine textures. The bible is replete with references to this favorite fabric of Jehovah, in which the angels were clad, while fine linen and purple are depicted the garb of kings. The Lord stipulated that a garment should not be shoddy, mingled linen and wool, and prescribed linen for the ark of the covenant, and for Aaron and the priesthood "Linen breeches to cover their nakedness, from the loine even unto the thighs they shall reach." "Coats of fine linen of woven work, and a mitre of fine linen and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and a girdle of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet of needlework." Moses was commanded by Jehovah to use linen in the tabernacle as well as the ark : "Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet: with cheruMms of cunning work shalt thou make them." When David "danced before the Lord, leaping and dancing with all his might," he was "girded with a linen ephod." Being rebuked by his wife Michel, Saul's daughter, for making a holy spectacle of himself, David threw her over for her hand-maidens. Then he proceeded to cultivate the electorate with the ancient equivalent of the full dinner bucket, distributing to everyone "a cake of bread, a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine," or as our prohibition friends put it, a cake of raisins. Solomon, the wholesale lover, who preached morality between marriages, was fond of linen and had "linen yarn brought out of Egypt" for beautification of Jerusalem, when he made silver "to be as stones for abundance." He "loved many strange women" having "700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines "all of whom, presumably, as consorts of the magnificent monarch, arrayed themselves in fine linen. Linen even played a part in prophecy. John in his vision of Revelations records: "Seven angels came out of the temple, having seven plagues, clothed In pure white linen, having their breast girded with golden girdles, the bride of the lamb, arranged In fine linen, clean and white, for fine linen Is the righteousness of saints. The armies which were In heaven followed them upon white homes, clothed In fine linen, white and clean." Just before the Christian era the cultivation of flax for fabric was extensive in Italy and was introduced by the Romans into Flanders and Britain, though Ireland claims priority after the Saxon conquest. In the late middle ages diftaft spinning was universal, the yarns being woven into every grade of linen cloth, beautifully embroidered and dyed However tho real Irish linen trade dates from 1694 when French Huguenot refugees established the Linen Manufac- tury at Lisburn, near Belfast and brought over Dutch spin ners, weavers and machinery. Ireland still produces one third of the world's output. In 1787 the first linen spinning machinery was installed in England and three years later the first commercial plant began operations in Scotland. It was not however until 1812 that the first fac'ory for weaving linen by power was estab lished in London. Xii 1620 the Mayflower pilgrims brought flax-seed and the I distaft to America and the spinning wheel was a familiar feature of every household in the colonies. Up to a century ago most American farmers grew enough flax to supply their I domestic needs, the spinning and weaving being done by I members of the family. In 1639 Massachusetts passed a law requiring every I household to grow at least "one rodd of ground square to flax" and Pennsylvania in 1673 provided a penalty for farmers refusing to produce flax. By 1809 the industry had! become important enough to be clamoring for a tariff, but I the advent of the cotton gin and the increased manufacture of cotton caiised its rapid decline. Recent improvements in linen spinning machinery and a revolution in processes of retting flax fibre, and manufactur ing methods, the invention of flax pulling and other machin ery, have now made it possible, by cheapening production, fori linen to successfully compete with cotton in home markets, and insure the success of the industry in Oregon, As linen has been the cloth of kings and a synonym for finery and luxury the world over, giving pleasure to the esthetic, and therefore repugnant to true puritans, let us f hope the establishment of the industry in the valley does not I produce a systematic agitation (secretly financed by the! cotton and wool trusts) among our good religious friends fori the prohibition of its manufacture, sale and u.e, as a sinful gratification of worldly vanity lest fax goes the wav of hops. We hope the time is far distant when linen will be placed I in the same catagory as a device of the devil as our hook and eye friends class the shiny and sinful button, though we recognize our duty to uplift our fellow-men by removing temptation, so that their narrow paths may be "as a shining light, growing more and more unto the perfect day." But, you never can tell. The Ku Klux Klnn may act to save their cotton nightgowns. TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE ; HORIZONTAL 1. America (ob.) S. Mount In in Washington H. Narrates . River in Italy JO, Get up 1 1. To crush 12. Iiihly Gr. prefix) 14. It in til JCxotlltut (b.) 15. tint new 16. An ox 17. Itai.uuy (ab.) 20, itriiiitry of ill cliurcu 2S. Ihiiurll 24. South Oaltuta (nh. HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The way to solve the Cross Word Fnulo is (o fill 111 the while squares of th diagram with th words which mere with the accoin- panjriuff ociiuiuoiis. 'lite 41 U toot are ouiuocrva to corrupoDii wild (lie numbers on tue dUvnuiiWj Any word defined in trto 'text tinder "HOKtZOKTAL will beffln nt Its number, shottn on the diagram, and will extend all the way across to the first black snaceto the right or that number. That is, the word mast begin In the Mnxtre that contains Its Identifying num ber, and extend as far as the. ivlule squares contiuue uninterruptedly Any word defined under VErTTIC A I. will also begin, In the white space mat cnnmins lis number, but will extend downward as far I ho white puces remain uninterruptedly. VERTICAL I. Arrived (ab.) J. Joyfully 5. To cleanse I. I'poii fi. IjitHy discovered 6. Island f:ib.) 7. One nlio renin a room V. Mother aiirf ralltcr 10. Wandllpprd 13. 3tl list y IH. Away 20. After noon (ah.) I. Kmirro (ab.) 22. I dllor ( lh ) SOI.ITIOX OF YKSTEKDATO N QMS ' INIC E gUFaU sMSm a ISIMMIHLIEIRIS 7? """ 23 " jug Ty Copyright 1914 George Mattbew Adams Wen, mothers and maids A Romantic Serial of Modern Life By IDAU McGLONE GIBSON A COWARDLY IX) VE Li lie gently led her mother to a big chair and fairly pushed her down into It cushioned depths. Then she dropped down at her feat and pillowed her bead in her mother's lap. For a long while mother and daughter wens silent. Then Vrs. Vail said: "Of course, you are anxious. Lille, to know what I have found out about my alfair." Xillemay," said Mr. Vail, "my affairs are in bad shape. My two baat producing we)U have been drowned out by ualt water, all the derricks on my part of the property are burned and It will coei me about 250. OrtO to put back Into shape the things that were de stroyed in 21 hours. "Smith tells me, however, that the new: well which came in or. your property will average about 5004 barrels a day. You are rich enough Lillemay to be sin?le1 out by the fortune hunters in Holly wood." "Have you suffered from them, mother dear, m the past?" 'Yes, I have," Mm. Vail answer ed Innocently, "until Harold shoo ed them all off " Lillemay looked at her mother qutofcly. Mrs. Vail caught the glance. "Oh you aro just like nil the rest. Lille. You think that Harold Is tbm greatest fortune hunter of all ut I contend that I know him better than any of you ami tint I know that hs la not. "Ever since he haj been iny friend he has shown me tint his advice has ben purely disinterest ed and that he has siren it be cause he cares for me and me alone. Doesn't thla house express me? "Weil, he helped ma to furnish and decorate it. I could not have done it to x" my life. It was the thing I wanted but never would have known how to Kt. "Did HaroM X-nntrdy take no money for this advicv, mother "No. we did the ho u fee together Just tit the fun of doing It. and I learned more of art during that time than I had ever learneJ." "The enly thing that Harold has ever taken money from me for li the utua! commission on my real estate deals, an I he has saved me much mo'-e than ihH on every ine of them. "ilo'.li he and I consider that commUdion legitimate. ' Mrs. Vail hesitated a momei.t, her face growing u llitlo paler and more tired look mg than it was wher fihe cime into her daughter's rocm. "Lille I am sorry you don't trust Harold," she said, "it would hurt me n.ore than I could tell you to find ut Harold Kennedy was dif ferent f.'otu what I belhtve him to be." VYou Icve him, mother." ques tioned Lille. "fes," the word had a. finality and an lmpresjiveness that r.iade explanation umie?oiary. "And he loves you, mother dear?" He siys he ;lo?w. At least he aald that he loved me a month ago Since I have lojt so much of my money I have been a coward. afraid to put htm to the te.it. "SiKh is thi inconsistency of my foolish heart that while I would be desolate If I fo'Jiil out that my mcney male any differenc to him yet lately I have been curl tun to "Po.- nstance, look about ynu.kmow if it rea!y is 1 or my mnny that in'cigues him. I never thought about it while I had lbs money but now I am afraid." "Has Harold done anything since your fortune haa dwindled to pi ike you think he care lens for yo.i T" "Nothing except that on the trip he haa seemed quite preoccupied. I sometimes hai the feeling that lie avoided me. You would prob ably not have notl'tel It but It was very patent to me. At times I almost thou?ht that ne had full en in lovj with someone else but of course he has had no oppor tune v." The ghos; of a imilo was on Lille's lips. To her mother sha was fetfll a chill, not old enough to love nor inspire love. She wnnderej fo ran lnjtant If mothers :ilvays looked on their daughters r.s nev?r havinj grown up. Just as daughters looked on their mothers as being too old to love or in?pirt love. "What would you do If you found out that Harold really did Icve son, eone else, mother?" Lille nsried tenecly, for on her mother's answer depended whelh er she should prove to her that Harold Kennedy intended to trans fer his afioctlonti fom mother to oauffhter. Melius Vail grew more pale as Khe said: "I hop 3 I shall never find it out. I nave had so liUIa real - loi'e, ao little tenderness In my life that I am sure If Harol 1 took his away from me I would not want to live." Tomorrow Tho "Fickle" Jivcr Students Staee Riot. Vienna, April 22. A number of Pulgarian students at Gratz, sun porters of tba Sofia government. yesterday forced their way into a hotel room where Bulgarian com- munfat student were holding a meeting and a bloody battle en- Rued. The police found many of the students Injured severely. olith groups were unarmed, but the broken dinner plates, chain and eveii window frames testified to tho severity of the fifihtinj;. BRINGING UP FATHER By George McManus LET ME HNVE THR.E.E CRDtJ-DIIST. I'M BETTirV TWO CHPS: AK PLGA'bE. TR1 H AJSO COME OOWN WvlrV 555 f J Ah WM ,WWE ES MOTHER WWTS YOO TO I I'D RACTHE.R f 1 J m MEET THE COUNT DE H f KEEP ON 4 22 ti 9 - ' BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG All Modern Improvements 1 3y Billy de Beck Z. .... m ... m Washlnfton, April 11. Tho landing: detachment of 164 offi cers and men from (he light crula or Denrer hat beta withdrawn from Ol ba, Honduraa. Wlthdra al woa effected yesterday and waa made possible by the arrlral of Honduras gorernmeot troops to reinforce the unite at the port. CONTRACT IS LET FOR UNION HIGH SCHOOL M.lill. Or., Arntl !I A con tract for the construction of the Molalla union hlh school bulhl- Ina hns bMi awarri.d by the board of director, to llirkmrtrr and Kr and of Mllwaukle for Isi.tge. Tlif hfatlntt nnj pliuublna contmrt va awnrJrd to Kuahlla-ht. Il.taaors and lord of I'ortlaiid. Th bulldlnc to srhrdul'.l to be completed h- !lritrniber 15. It la financed by a bond hmie sold re- rentlr to Terrla and llaldarova at lanokan and Portland. 1 1 - ayo.iiLz35Hf ' vjva .s . - i mmmmmmw "mmm&. 'w The G&vmMMt7Kiv AMD EMM RUNNIMG OJATER M 1 rfire JL 1 II ! board. ww - . -17r .- i . umsr. 'fficm' our.ii KRAZY KAT The Skeptical Krazy Kat Rv Herri. I " 'm '- U 1 f a- . , - i 1 I ' r -- - L , n,. Tr VK.c-.:r..j..,-- T 1 1 1 rv Mf7)o't,v. -z. - - . " j. .... ;. I I iwirmrp A mtv TriTi-rt , . . r; ....... ... . ..... . I mx waa niii uiixx wig-game nuni in .urica iooks uooa lo Jeff. By Bud Fisher I TTTfT eKX? All I c.Xr- J V - I p- I ' W I' '1 VJ f- .- ' Xf frl
