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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1925
CapitalJtJournal
Salem. Oreeon
A Independent Newspaper Published Every Evrnins Except Sunday
Telephone 81; Kewe 82
GEO KG 12 PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Hut J keep under my body, and bring it into subjection;
lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I
myself should be a castaway. Corinthians 9:27.
The School Problem
Calling attention to the fact that the limit of taxation for
higher education has been reached and that the state educa
tional institutions must readjust their expenditures to meet
income, as private business has to, the Oregonian comments:
To what extent la the state under a moral ohlfratlun to furnish
higher education, embracing all the ao-alled enrichment!, the orna
ments, the enjoyable, but not indlspenuuble trills ol culture, to all
who apply for them?
The state is under no moral obligation to provide education
beyond the high school, if that far, to any one. The theory
that the taxpayer must pungle up for all the fads and foibles
fostered at either the university or agricultural college is
absurd. Why should the public provide anything but funda
mentals in education? It is only within the last half century
that such attempts have been made and the results are not
encouraging. Until then, anyone desiring higher education
paid for it, or laboriously acquired it by self study.-
The first move to cut costs should be to place all the higher
educational institutions under one board of regents to be
operated as parts of one university instead of rival institu
tions. Other states have successfully reduced costs by adopt
ing this plan, thereby eliminating duplications and reducing
overhead. The board of higher curricula should be abolished
as a failure. Then further economics can be made by
eliminating frills.
At the same time, drastic reorganization must overtake
the public school system, which cost three times as much
this year as 12 years ago. Its budget of $5,256,0G0 in 1913
has grown to $15,010,433 for 1925, emphasizing the fact
that the limit has also been reached in grade and high school
expenditures, which now absorb 85.18 percent of all taxes.
With the higher institutions, Oregon's educational system
accounts for 42 percent of taxation.
Readjustment and reorganization is the only alternative
to unlimited taxation for schools.
Our Inferiority Complex
Oregon's inferiority complex is again to the fore. The
Portland Rwtlty board has under consideration a resolution
censuring newspapers for publicity given to the fact that
it rained on the opening day of the baseball season a fact
that it is asserted should be suppressed lest the prospective
settler learns that it really does rain in Oregon.
This same underlying consciousness of inferiority, of
being ashamed of old Oregon and her climate, of aping other
states of desert-like characteristics, is manifested on every
possible occasion. It is apparent in the effort to side-track
the pioneer nick-name of "web-foot", in the protest against
the word "Mistland" as a trade-mark for our fruit and in
other imitations of advertising of less favored regions.
Oregon is, with her verdure clad hills and picturesque
valleys, the fairest state in the union and beautiful beyond
compare chiefly because of the mixture of sunshine and
showers that constitutes her chief charm. No other climate
could produce an Oregon and instead of making false pre
tenses and concealing truth, we should blazon the facts of
our summer paradise to the world as our best publicity.
"She flies with her own wings", the territorial motto of
Oregon, should still be her inspiration. A state upon which
nature has showered such allurments should not disparage
herself but imitating the go-get-cm blah of California
boomers.
FOUR PAVING
PLANTS WILL
BE OPERATED
(Continued from page mo)
cronsroiutH, where the road turn:
south to Auburn.
Connection ol stretch on Wheat-
lund road at Cla.wtt creek whert
a new concrete bridge was in
stulled Iul summer nnd ap
proachen were left uupaved. The
gap to fill Ib About 600 feet.
Will Connect Gn
Connection of a Rap on the. Oeor
rond at Pudding river whero con
ditions are Himllttr to those on the
Wheatland road.
If foundation can he put Into
proper shape tnree-rourtiw oT
mile of pavement will be laid on
the PriiiKle road past the 8cho.il
for feeble minded by the girl
Bchol to the rock crusher.
Work under a.aylon paving
Three miles of pavement from
the end of tho present pavement
east of Stuytou to a point about
three miles from Mehama.
One mile of pavement on Hk
Turner-Marion road from the
bridge over Mill creek nt Oak Tree
corners south toward Marlon.
Work under Sco third plant:
Mite and a half of pavement
from Wood burn on what Is known
as the Ct:rvais cutoff from Wonil
rurn to tho Pacific Mfihway. Thin
fltnrtfs from the highway about
two mile north of (.errata and
lea da to the Woodlmrn city limits
past the Layman place. The city
of Wood bum plans to pave a htll
mile Inside ti n city limits to meet
this cutoff. This will aire Wood
burn roada to the highway fruni
the east and the south.
Mile and a half of pavement
rrmo Hubbard to Uroadacrei, com
Dieting that rond.
Pavement connecting the coun
ty paving at Aurora with the Pa
clflc highway. The county paving
la the end of the Aurura-DoniilJ
pavement. A new bridge la no
being built at Aurora, stronger
and heavier than the old bridge
and the paving will go over thin
bridge.
Paving under the St. Paul
plant:
Six mile of pavement to roav
taect the pavement at tU. Paul t
the end of the New berg bridge.
Yamhill county ha requested Mar
Ion county to construct faalf a mile
of pavement for them from the
bridge to Newherg on the Yamhill
aide. This will make a complete
pavement from Woodhurn through
St. Paul and Newberg to Portland.
The foregoing constitutes the
complete progrtim for paving this
year as now outlined. The coun
1 court la stlil working on the
details of the nropeed big five-year
program of -which the 1925 won.
la a part.
The paving for this year as out
lined by no means covers the work
in rood building contemplated for
this year, ne the work will cover n
largo amount of grading and mak
ing preparation fur paving during
tho following four years of to
five-year progrnm.
The court has been besieged on
every hand to etahlish market
roada under the five-year program
and already It linn in Its possesion
more petitions for such roads than
it can possibly accommodate.
The court contemplates with
holding any announcement of Its
five-year program until efter tlr'
new road laws go Into effect on
May 2S. After that time it will
l.o essential 'or the court to have
its progrnm approved by the high
way commission. Tlu court is op
erating carefully no ae to-outline a
program that will meet with ttie
commission's apporval without nny
complications or setbacks and com-,
mission engineers have eauilneii
the proposed work which the eourf I
baa so tar tentatively decide!
snouiu come tinner the Mr pro
grain.
When the legislature decided to
leave the market road bill alone
in Its main feature .It made It
possible for the county court to go
aueaa nun a definite plan and
enough is known of it to assure an
ambitious program of market rond
building which can be carried out
and at the same time not Inter.
fere In any way with maintaining
and Improving the small lateral
and local roads which feed th
minor commuulties.
New Corporation!.
The following article ot incor
poration were filed yesterday with
tha atate corporation department
cignai i,timer company, Signa
N'auon. Lane county; incorpora
tors, A. J. Kroenert. Irene Kroen
rt, A. H. McCurtatnf capital.
$15,000. ,
Hotel ' Illlildtn nrru.r.Hn..
Portland; iacorporatom, Tred A.
Hurgard. V. W. Lucius. llnhn n
aJorrteon: ra.it Ui $25.0(1. T
Elba Theater commm. In
Aetorla; Incorporator. W. J Mr-
Oregor, Joseph Jacobs. Kdwarrf R
Gray; capital, $40,000.
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My Matrimonial
Vacation byvMetDare
I cauffhtigbt oC Virginia at
last, in a corner of the palm-room
with a woman who would have
been very beautiful if she hadn't
been bo aad. I made my way be
tween the tables eagerly, anxious
to meet her.
Aa 1 paused beside them Vir
ginia turned to me.
"Oh, Nancy " she eald, then,
to the woman. "Mrs. Jordan, this
is my daughter."
A photograph I had noticed the
evening before, tucked away on a
iesk in the Jordan library, flashed
into my mind. It was 4 his woman's
picture.
So Jordan was the man in the
case.
Ah I sat there talking with Mrs.
Jordan I thought of her husband
as I had seen him the nisht before.
Xot one of the women guests had
been as pretty as his wife was. And
she had charm and Intelligence as
well as beauty. Yet he preferred
those others one or two very gay
debutantes, a chorus girl, several
actresses who had very small" parts
In second-rate plays and me. Was
I second-rate too, I asked myself.
I studied Mrs. Jordan across the
tea-tahlo. It seems queer to me al
ways that the old theory about
beauty Isn't true. Perhaps there
wan a time when It was the beau
tiful woman who had everything,
though they do say that Cleopatra
was no beauty.
But nowadays a girl who is
quick-wilted and fascinating does
n't have to have beauty, if she has
style. And there are so many real
ly beautiful women, like Mrs. Jor
dan, whose husbiinds Just leave
them to eit on the fide lines while
they pursue somebody else through :
the game of life! x I
Nathalie Jordan was really won-1
derfully beautifu!, if her face
hadn't been so sad. I sut there
looking at her, and suddenly I re
solved to step In and play Kate.
After all, why shouldn't I? I felt
sure that her husband didn't real
ize how lovely she was. And she'd
let herself be unhappy over him
till she'd lost her charm for him.
If she really loved him, she ought
to have him back!
"Oh Mrs Jordan, why do you go
south?" I asked her, as sho lan
guidly discussed her plans, and
wondered whether to go to White
Sulphur or Virginia Hot Springs
or take the Mediterranean trip.
"Oh Just to be doing something,
I suppose," she answered. "I'm so
tired of New York."
"I think I could show you a side
of New York that would interest
you," I exclaimed impulsively.
"Won't you let me try?"
Virginia looked at me In sur
prise, but I hurried on. "There are
so many attractive places and
people do play around with me a
bit, Mrs. Jordan, and see If I can't
make the city interesting."
I could see that she didn't un
derstand at all; that she wonder
ed why I should take euch an In
terest in what she did. But after a
momen't hesitation she smiled and
slowly, "Well, why not? I'll post
pone my trip a few weeks, and
meantime you can show me what
ever you like."
I wondered later, as I walked
over to the hotel where I was to
meet Nick, whether I had been
awfully foolish. X hadn't the
faintest Idea Just what I was go
ing to do. But somehow I was go
ing to make that Jordan man ap
preciate his wife!
Nick took me ot the quaintest I
place sort of a cross between a I
HuMttian inn and a deep sea cavern
It was awfully attractive, and ae
yet unspoiled because the general
public hadn't discovered it. There
was a Russian nobleman In charge
I don't believe there are any left
anywhere except ' in New York,
where they all run restaurants!
And a group of Russians furnish
ed the music, and there were Rus
sian waiters, and chefs, and bua
boys.
There were benches around the
walls, and huge floor cushions
heaped in the corners, where you
could sit if you wanted to.
"Nick, I love this place!" I ex
claimed as we went In. "How did
you ever discover it?"
"It's backed by thre young bus!
ness men," he answered, with a
queer little smile, "and your friend
Mck is one of them!"
"Nick! Not really!"
"Sure. Didn't I tell you that I
had to have more money? I'm
willing to do anything to get it. I '
lost what I wanted more than any
thing else In the world because I
didn't have it, and now "
"Now you're going to get the
money, and then get your heart's
desire back again," I supplied, as
we sat down at a corner table.
"No, there's no hope of that, I
guess," he answered gloomily. "But
I'm going to get the money any
way." I looked around at the other
people who were dining there. It
was really on interesting crowd, not
at nil the usual sort that one sees
on or near Broadway. Over on
the opposite side of the room was
one of the prettiest girls I had
ever seen, dining with a rather
oldish man.
"Nick, what a pretty girl over
there," I said; a man always thinks
you're so generous if you call his
attention to some other girl that
way but being a blonde myself, I
never bother to do it unless the
other girl Is a brunette. Why take
chances foolishly!
He glanced at her carelessly,
then turned back to me quickly.
He had turned very pale, and his
face had grown tense.
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