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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1925 CapitalJournal Salem. Ortron An Independent Newspaper Published Kvery Evening Kxcept flundar Tolephont 81; New St GEOKGB PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nahum 1:7. OPPORTUNITY AWAITS What can one man do in this corporation and cooperative age of quantity production and stifled individualism? Recent events however, show that despite the trend of the times, the individual has plenty of opportunity to de liver the goods, if his genius lies in that way and he is in dustrious enough. Let us take the case of Portland's famous fireman fire bug. In a comparatively brief space of time, he set a hun dred odd fires in a hundred parts of the city causing a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars and the combined hundreds of the police and fire departments were unable to curb his activities or apprehend him. Then there is the case of that brilliant burglar known by the pscudonyme of "Inch and a Quarter Jimmy," who in 150 days burglarized over a 150 residences in one Portland dis trict, despite 150 cops on guard and caused the police "to make 8 monkey" out of the mayor and a "goat" out of the chief in Ir'.'le efforts to nab him. Then there is the case of our Grand Lecturer, who single- handed, has been cutting taxes in half for over two years by multiplying them and has finally, by making an inadequate levy and vetoing a special election, financially embarrassed the state to the extent of several millions of dollars. All of which proves that one man can still manage to raise hell in a limited time in an unlimited way, if he's built that way. Of course the pitcher always goes to the well once too often, the firebug fired one too many fires, the burglar bur gled one too many house and the Grand Lecturer forced one too many special taxesbut just think of the fun they have had, in their respective swings around the burnt dis trict, the robbed region and the grand circle before coming to grief. Sure, opportunity still awaits the individual. PLANT PEARS Fruit crops of the county are having their usual spring des truction at the hands of the experts. It is usually necessary to destroy them at least three times before a bumper har vest. However experts tell us that the prune and cherry crops v ill be light, but the pear and peach crops good. The freeze of last winter is blamed. Why do not the growers set out more pear acreage? Year in and year out, pears are as profitable as any crop grown, more than most, yet there are only three commercial pear orchards in the Salem territory. The Willamette vulley is peculiarly adapted to pears, par ticularly as a canning product. Climatically it cannot be ex-C"l'-!d, for it is immune from fire-blight, the dreaded destroy er of most pear regions. Frost seldom takes a heavy toll and the trees are freer from pests than elsewhere. in order to secure pears enough to operate their plant, local canners have to import them in quantity lots from suuuiL-rn ana eastern Uregon and Washington districts xneie Biiouiu ue pears enougti raised here to eliminate this importation. Diversity is the salvation of the fruit-crower. as it is n the farmer. The wise orchardist will include a pear block with his prunes or apples or nuts, so that in case of failure u,,e crP- lncre ls another to rely upon, while occasionally illAM (trill 1 - V... 1 1 m nm uc uuiupcr yiciua oi ail. Ti TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL . 0. n. N.itimal Cuard (aft.) KalablUhcd (ao.) Kziat fry of sheep l-'atlior AnuuiucniNs 'rniik 10. Ft-dal extrrniltle IV. To eat 20. lti-retM-rnlcd 22. T ramble 23. Animal 25. Indefinite nrtlt-lo 21. aK'iiiber of an Indian tribe 27. Missouri; (ib. I HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE The war to antre the Crmw word Pirate to to mi In liio while Mturee of cite diagram with ibe word which arret with the room IMaQjific definition. The deflniitoaa arc numbered to cor rea pond wlto wo oumbera on Hie diagram. ( Any word defined In the text under "IIORIZOOTAL will berln at ha number, ahoun on the diagram, and will extend all the way acroaa io ine urs duck apace to the riguc or inai numner. inat u, the word meat begin In the wiwire tuiit contains Ita ldrntUliig num ber, and extend as far ibo white aqiuirc continue unuiicrruptwliy Any word denned under "VERTICAi." will a loo besin. In the white apace that contains Its number, but will extend downward ma far a ine white spaces remain uninterrupted I r. VERTICAL I. New nrunHk-k (ab.) . To Inlk nonsense (Sinn;:! 4. To slide 6. I(rt 6. 1 clllor (ab.) 8. Granted Scorned I. 1'aliu grutvlnir in India. Africa 12. CovT wllh dew 3. Alter (111).) 15. IN-roelvo III. Vleor 20. Moved nivny rapidly 21. liuliiioii lull.) 22. (.eoricla (-lb.) 21. ii.itt SOLl'TION OP 4"ICSTiRDAYS VVOiLK A Hj? ; IB K UTS" K O I dIaIf I N 5 L. Jj4 K A JnI D g( g Copyright 1034 George Matthew Adam. My Matrimonial Vacation by Violet Dare A CRITICAL MOMENT My marriage was ao romantic and so unhappy, that K seems like something out of a story, not real affair at all. When Jim and 1 went to Virginia and told her that we were married she was angrier than I have ever seen any one before. Then, suddenly, she had hysterics, not real ones. I saw through her at once. She had de cided that she wouldn't gain any thin by being angry with Jim, mid thought she'd try something else. She bogq'l his pardon for being horrid, and was doubly sweet to vm both. Sho waatej to know where we were groin to live. He enli that he'd be stationed at Governor's Island, Just a etone's throw from New York, the first year anyway. "How charmlns," she exclaimed. "Then I'll often have you with :ne." We just played around all that first sumnie:. I was very happy, except when we ran Into girU and v. omen whom Jim had known be fore he know me. They all seemed to havo flirted violently with him, to say the lexst. But I didn't care. In the early fall we went to our v home. The furniture Uncle Sam gave us wasn't so bad, I thought, though our nous was like barn. But VlrginU lamented 1 over It, and urged me to make the 1 lace attractive for Jim. She'd go shopping with me, ana somehow I, found that I bought awfully expen sive things. But I'd never known much about money she had al v&ys manage! that. had to have nutunn clothes. of course. We ha-l two servants, because I know nothing - about housekeeping. Virginia kept a r-cr- ftonal maid who looked after mc things, like flowers for the h that made the bills pile up. Virginia warned me that I must be careful not to do anything that would miik me lose my looks "Jim's ao attractive that women will always run after him she said. "And If yo let yourself get run down ani messy looking you'll lese him and it will be your own lault, Jim was worriel when the bills came In i sccoii-1 lieutenant can't afford luxuries, und he had noth iiig but his pay. I was worried xoo. But Virginia, lived with as ho had urged her to do, and we entertained a goo l deal, ani some how the bit's never got any small er. Viiginla was always rurslng about what would happen to mo when Jim got detailed for foreign service. "Juit- look at that little Mrs. F-uton, whose father wna stationed in the Islands a few years ago," bhe sali. "She's hardly recovered t-er looks yet. Ani Major Cane'd wife told me that It absolutely ruin ed her health when she was thtre. You've always 1-eon so delleate never could stand severe beat I'm so worried " That sea-el Jim too. Hod pro est Utat If one knew how to live in the tropica It was real'y bene ficial, bul V'ry.iiU would always remind him that he'd never lived In ere nud dint know anything about it. I'd have gone anywherj with Mm, though. Then pomethlng hap pened that Chang! everything. T cam InUi the hourfc quite un expectedly one afternoon, when I'd thought I'd go over to New York and changed my mind. Mrs. Eaton too. Ani there were always Mttle was In our living room, with Jim in his arms. I turned and ran upstairs to my nown room, trembling ao that I could hardly move. I knew that he'd known her before: her hus band had been graduated from West Point two yeara before Jim was, an 1 she and Jim had met there. When they first saw each other at Governor's Island I had put Iced a queer sort of constraint in his manner, and she seemed overwhelmingly glad to see him. But thh this was too mu.'h. I thought maybe he'd explain to me later, but he casually mention ed at the dinner table that he'd licen out all afternoon. "All afternoon, Jim?" I asked. "Yep down at the club. There's a rumor that the regiment Is to be sent to the Islands, ani every body's talking their heads off." There was a hop that night at the Officers Club, but I just didn't feel that I could go. Mrs. Eaton ran In after dinner; her husband was officer of the day, and couldn't take her would we mind if aha went with us? Not at all in fact, I'm staying home, so Jim can take you," I tolj her. He and ahe protested politely, but I refused to go a step. Finally they went off together. Two days later tho orders arriv ed. The regtinent was erlered to the Philii pines, not even to Manila but so new here off in the interior. It will kill Nancy," my moth er protested. "It will Jus kill her! She's not strong why she s in oven now." Jim looked at me anxiously. I vas ill I'd lain awake nights nd eaten my heart out days over him and Claire Eaton, "Perhaps perhaps she'd belter 4ay here, with you," he said slow ly. Terhapa she had," answered Virslnli. I said nothing. And, after a lot of talk, that was what they agreed on. He'd go to the IwUnds alone, and save money. and pay the' ghastly bills we'd run up. And for a while, at least. I d remain In Nw York with Virginia. BRINGING UP FATHER Dv George MrManua 7 well 1 wuz wjt . ) WZfM W$mW$PSM A-M' ,,c" L,v-e T 1 WM oh: Pill HOW 00 00 kr I f- 'y&zM?'' ' v ' '" J2& ENOOCH TO OftINC M 2f HI HELLO. OICM? ISN'T T rN -A ' C-K WELL,- if UMMEUv TOO,T IT'LL j; Wf MPW 7&?,? SfiL LJB&Wl AVnJt- OA0 TO 6E . fjM& W 1 KW vrA' IWB WiBsKr J&f cKfmM "I ifww WmB Wm' w&rt -fcMQi Jfiw nMwJ " C1..1 Eriuin righu nxrved. Ifp1 'S -y -'.g; BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG A Case of "Cart Refore the Horse" By Billy de Beck Liberty News Liberty. Or.. Aoril 29. Mr. and Mrs. bruco Kox recently had u ineir guest, Mr. and Mrs. U Lautnum ot San Kranclsco, Cal. Mr. Lautbum was a boyhood friend of Mr. Kox", both belnc reared in Topeka, Kan. They had not met for 43 yeara. Megdainea 11. Meptune, Carl fluuer and C. Mundlniter of Salem wore caller In tbia neighborhood luat Monday. 11; B. Kobb. who haa been work. Ing in hla atudlo at Pendleton, u now at homo but will return to hla eastern Oregon work soon. Mtss'VcUeUa Ohmart was the guest of Miss Dorothy Erkine at her homo at Jefferson ovor the eek-end. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. lioag were dinner guettts Tuesday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Krea Scott. Mr and Mrs. Frank Mupes nntl daughters, Verua and l'rauces, oi tfulem were dinner guets at tin horns of Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. llruwn Ing, Monduy. Mrs. 11. A. luva is slowly re covering from her recent Illness - Mr. and Mrs. T. llugnn of Tort land were visitors at the Haiu homo luat Hiinuuy. K. L. Coffey - visiting rcl.itlvec neiir Sweet Home. Mrs. McNrel- knit Miss (Sludr Mt-Neer of Silvt-rtnn visited at lilt W. II. Ooriuiin home Sunday. Mia iiulh (lotfrlrd of r'ulls City wu also their guest. Cloud HtevenMin. who been very III with lugrlppe, Is now re coveting. Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Jtuld er Rofiedale vieitord Sunday. Miss Murion Holder of J'orttnm! 1k visiting at the homo of her mother, Mrs. K. Holder. Mrs. J. W. Anderson visited Hosklns over the week-end. Many from Liberty attended the declamatory contost at Salem Heights last Krliy evening. Mr. aud Mrs. P. 8. Denrer. Veneta Italns end Dorothy Coffey were dinner guests of Mr. and Mm. Johnny Dcnrer of Salem Sunday. We are glad to etate that Mr Walter Allen, who got hit in the rye last weak will no lews her light . R. X. Myers was called to Port land on account of JllneMs. Mr. end Mrs. Otto Schisman and little girl, Betty, of Salem visited t the W. H. Maiheson home Wed nesday evening. The Misses Tilde and Tllson. who are attending the Oregon formal school at Monmouth, were visitors at the home of P, O. Judd. oununy. llurlun Judd and Eugene Cruth. era wore Monmouth visitors Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Climber otl Portland were visitors at Mr. and! wrs. k. a. uorrey s. Sunday. Mr. and Mra. D. C. Wolfe of naiupori visited Mr. and Mrs. I Urnce Kox on their way home from a trip to rortiand. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Entwhlstle nd Mr. and Mrs. Adams and two! -niiuren ot uregon City visited all uie uiveiand home Sunday. i.yle Knlns and his friend. I William Ireland of Salcin, motored io l orvuillH, riunday, Mrs. A. U. Browning nnd daugh ter, roggv, returned Saturday! irom Seattle end Tnconia, wherel they have been visiting relative. I Mm. Karl Cone was tu Portland I Minuay. Hill Mi-Kemlo lift this lor I'cndiclon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Keynoldn nna son. Kenneth, und Mr. on. 11 Mrs. l arl Carlton nnd riniiKhle l.oul.se. of Portiaml vlslli'.l ut tin- llllam Koael home Htindny. i morning SCHOOL PATRONS PLAN FIGHT ON ILLITERACY Austin, Texas, April 2 !t .- II lit - orin-y In the southwest Is to h .iiiuiKi-,1 iiy ti,,. national oniiresn i iwrents und tcichers, which rent Into tn? second day of ito annual convention here lodny. llccause of a large population 'a Texas and inuthwrtcnt borilor stales It woa said Illiteracy in these states is high. Klforts to omlist It wn the plsn of "moonlight'- schojls as coniliicted In Kentucky probthly will be. nro- poned. The "moonlight" arhools are night schools lor adults who de sire to learn reading and writing nnd havo no other facilities for education. DRUNK TEST IS ALTERED Iilrmlngham. Knit . 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