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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON' FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1025 CaoitalJI Journal 1 Salem, Oregon An Independent Newspaper Published livery EvcnJnjy TCxeept Sunday Telephone 8; News 82 GICOHC.fi PUTNAM, Kditor and Publisher BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, ami lovelli the stranger, jn giving him food and raiment, Deuteronomy 10:8. A Hick Town A hick town is one that permits a passing show to stretch an advertising banner across Main street a free publicity stunt denied the tax-paying merchant, and giving a jay look to tiie burg. A hick town is one that sanctions the distribution of dodgers and hand-bills to strew the streets of the business sections, pester the pedestrian, scare the horses and litter the autos. A hick town is one that turns over a section of the best city streets to that itinerant aggregation of freaks, fakirs and fol-de-rols for feeble minded, called a carnival, to bam boozle the boobs for a small hand-out for some local uplift. A hick town is one where smart shopkeepers paint their store fronts glaring, garish discordant colors to attract morons and make the judicious grieve, to save advertising costs, and thereby effectually spoil the appearance of the street. A hick town is one where residents are so lacking in personal and community pride that they fail to water and mow the lawn, grass goes to seed on curbings and vacant lots and unpaved streets are a sea of unkept weeds. A hick town is one where the autos park in reverse, back side to, instead of heading in, where they turn around in the middle of the block and stand in files three deep for long stretches of time in the middle of the street. A hick town is one where snooping sneaks and sleuths of the police force tap the pockets of tourists, smell breaths and search every auto parked for a few minutes on the street at night on suspicion, without warrant. A hick town is well perhaps you know such a town, or at least a town with some hick characteristics, not a thousand miles away. Sand-Bagging Springfield The Eugene Chamber of Commerce is engaged in the neigh borly occupation of sand-bagging the little sister city of Springfield, by endeavoring to steal the railroad shops which the Southern" Pacific years ago agreed with the people of Springfield to locate there upon completion of the Natron Cut-off, and for which it secured an extensive tract of land. Eugene has a boom and the boomers have conceived the ideajhat it would be a great stimulus towards inflation and enable them to unload at a profit, if the prospective and promised railroad shops were switched at taxpayers expense from Springfield to Eugene hence the proposal to vole municipal bonds for $150,000 to purchase a 200 acre tract of land for a site and present the same to the railroad in exchange for tho. hitter's holdings at Springfield. Now Eugene and Springfield are only a few miles apart and if the shops are located at Springfield, Eugene will reap all of the substantial advantages for the two cities will eventually grow together, but the boomers want the cily to oTnw in Hip oilier direction where presumably their own Vml.lm.ri urn Sn (liov are seekinc to induce the Southern Pacific to break faith with the people and investors of Springfield, who have for so many years patiently held ' the sack. The unique feature of the proposal is that the pubhe oniiMi,.,! lwmm-vs want 1 ho nuinicipalit v to put up the money to secure industry that; will enhance their holdings, instead of putting it up themselves as Salenutes Have done 101 inc linen mill and as other communities do. Jimmying the cily treasury and making the taxpayer the goat for the speculator sets a dangerous precedent that can only load to disaster by exhausting financial resources required for the legitimate t,nnlu rf rrrnwincr rilv. Tint why should Eugene seek to prow at the exprnso of Springfield, which is really only a suutuo: I wont du n-uaira untl hailed taxi. I had made arrangements to go to one of the big hotebj up town, and tho driver took me there so rapidly that when I arrived I was Htlll In a daze. As I roffl-Htercd a girl and s young nuin came up to the desk I porter deposited aome smart-look ins hat;s, covered with foreign la bets, bexl'le them. Tho girl was laughing. 'Oh, I'm so excited over being home," I heard her ay. "Think of seeing everyone again, and going to the apartment; when do you Kunpotto we can move in? I'll feel like on old married woman, In stead of a bride, having my own home." A lylde and groom! Less than a year ago Jim and I had returned from our honeymoon, to aettle down in the house on Governor's island, and I was feeling like "an old married woman" then. Only It hadn't seemed like my own home because Virginia was there, to man ago everything and make me feel that I was still just her daughter, instead of Jim's wife. Tomorrow The Shadow of Sorrow AMERICAN MISSIONARIES ORDERED BACK TO HANKOW My Ma trimonia l Vacation y vioict Dare "Ui i: sir st ;o on" 1"ur ft monu-nt I lmd NtttrinK nt the rnblenruni, too completely Htuiinrd to reMtre fully wnnl it meant. Jim had tiled nl M-a ! v died on hl.i way bark to ine, returning that w could etralgliien out our affair. I told nivwlf that If I had nut written him that 1 wixhed to he free jo that I could marry Kill Kwlng ho would not have iwtkrd to bo 1 1:1 nufnTod to a no t her regi ment, no that he could come buck to tho utatfs and we me. Jt win my fault, then, (hat he wnn dead I would luive given anything In the world not to have akcJ him to let mo he free. An.Whlng, if It would have meant Unit he would live ngiifn. There wns nothing that t could do, no way that I could find out Jut what had happened. y 0wn helplessness maddened me. walked the floor iinill I whn worn out, and then nat down by tho liv Ing room window from which could see the river and tho brldgivi and stated out Into the misty nigh I. My own life seemed so useless, no nrtificinl, that It difmiwted me. I tried lo remember Jim's devo tion to Cecllln Katon, to tell my fo1f that ho had been Kind enottRh to go off to the Philippines with out me. lie hadn't wanted me along. Then why should I tort tire myself with thoughts of my negli gence In not going wilh him? That didn't make It any easier wnen i moiigiu or jim tug, goon looking, happy Jim, lying dead, I cried out In horror. I couldn't im that be true, I told myself. It Just couldn't hot I tried to think that whnt I had don really hadn't mntlered. I toM myself that if Jim had really cared for me, he wouldn't have let my mother com between us. Cut In mich cases one can't reason. Morning rump at last, and I got up and dragged mynolf into the bedroom. l:y lovely evening gown was wrinMetl and bedragcled look lug; my hair was tumbled Into my eye. I looked gaunt and weary. Hut as I looked into (he mirror 1 told inyfself thai that didn't matter. 1 didn't think of how 1 looked. My ihourhts were all on Jim. my Jim, whom I'd never see again. I ehauged my frock, almost me chanically, more for munething to do than for any other reason. I re niembered breakfast, but the thoin:ht of trying to eat was re puutuni. I ben. in walking about the bare, deserted apartment again The man who acted as superin tendent of the building came up stairs at about ten o'clock, to get I he key. I had quite forgotten tti.it thut waa the day when I was supposed to leave and go to a ho tel. I gave the keys to him. and put on my hat and coat. "I beg your pardon but if some thing in the matter if there's anything I can do " he said. "Nothing's the matter." I an swered. My voice sounded lo me hi If it belonged to someone eNe. The telephone rang Just then, and I answered It. Nathalie's voice answered me when I ssld "Hello," "tli Nancy, I'm glad lo find you in," .he exclaimed. "po have luncheon w it h me. won't on ? I hnvi- so much to tell you. l'.llls coming to New York next week; be ay that he can't tea any long er ftlihout seeing yuti!" "I never want to see Mill again!' I answered, and hung up the re col vr. 1 told myself that If was mil who hid Indirectly been the cause of Jim's death. If I hadn't thought I cared for him If hadn't nked Jim to let me divorce htm n iloaen "Ifs" flashed through my mind. New York, June i2. American missionaries and their families in the Hu-peh province have been or dered to return to Hankow Imme diately, according to a cablegram received today by the Episcopal m iKfl i on h e a d q u a r I e r s. . The message read: "Situation serious. Women, children and missionaries have been ordered to this port." About 50 American missionaries and their families were scattered about the province. Notables in the News Pern's Senate Acta. Lima, Peru, June 12. Th sen ile today approved tho Peruvian government's previously an nounced intent ion to participate in the lacna-Arua plebiscite. Tne Jfriuce of Wales has indicated mat he is very anxious to visit the United States acain on bis return from South America. Although Lord Astoc'a bin to admit peeresses (o tho House of Lords fulled ot passage, ho axyfisscd confidence of. Us eventual enactment. Sir Arthur Conaut Doi'lp; author and spiritualist, declared that he looks "forward to death with serenity, even eagerness." Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover advised consumers to stock up on both hard and soft coal during the next few weeks. LONG LOST WITNESS IN TRIAL FOUND (Continued from rage one) Stewart indirectly accused Reichmann or having profited from his attorneyship of the Mc Clintock $1,000,000 estate which was willed virtually in toto to Shepherd by young McClintock shortly before he died of typhoid fever December 4 last, a death Shepherd is accused of having caused by administering typhoid germs. Mr. Crowe insisted Uelchmann was one of the leaders of the Chi cago bar and his affluence was legitimate due to his ability us an attorney. The first mention of the pn nosed suit by the McClintock cousins to break the will woe made when Reichmann admitted he knew such a suit wa3 contem plated, but denied he had an in terest in it. Concluding his direct examina tion Reichmann testified that as counsel for Mrs. William A. Nel son McClintock after the death of her husband, whom he had served in the same capacity he had drawn un the will under which tho estate was transferred to the child. He testified that when Mrs. Mc Clintock had wanted to name Julio" (Mrs. Shepherd) as a co- guardian, he did not know who was meant, not being acquainted with tho Shepherds at that time. Judge Olson obviously was dis appointed at the brief story ho was permitted to tell from the wit nes stand yesterday. In his cross-examination oi Judge Olson regarding hie ac quaintance with the McClintocka, Attorney O'Brien was fihurp and barked staccato interrogations at tho dignified chief justice. 'Did you ever talk with young McClintock?" shot out O'Brien. "Well, I don't know. I may have ' Btarted the jurist wit ness. "Tha'.'a enough, stop there," de-i niamleJ the dapper little attorney. Alexander Keichinau was the next witness. Ileichman fomerly was attorney for William McClintock Sr., later for Mrs. MoCUnlok and finally with Mrs. Shepherd, a co-guardiaa for McClintock Jr. Much of his testimony dealt with his acquainlunce wilh the McCUntocka and Shepherds and when the state's attorney brought the examination to tho time Ueichman refused Shepherd em ployment another hitler debat; was precipitated, the defense con tending the state was trying to bring out what was not said. In the whispered argument both sides mentioned serious charges Shepherd and Ileichman were uuki to have hurled at each other in conversation with others. Savs Shenherd Ienored. Reich ma u denied he hud said he would get a slice of the .Mc Clintock estate for himself. IIu testified that Mrs. McClintock willed Mrs. Shepherd $5000 but did not name Shepherd in her will. Crowe's questioning of Reich man ubaut a trip he made to Tex at; concerning property of the Mo Clintock estate brought on unother argument, whispered to Judge. Lynch to prevent the jury hear ing. In it Stewart made a serious ac cusation against the witness. Crowe won his point, continuing to question Keivfeman with an ex pressed purpose to disc lost Shep herds alleged motive and plot as it was built up on the ultimate ulayiiig of the ycuth. He mentioned a "conspiracy" in the whispered argument and the defense demanded to know "what conspiracy?" Crowe replied that "the conspiracy will be unfolded here." "Well, there Is another side and that opens up a wide field," re plied Stewart. Ileichman testified Mrs. Shep herd wag allowed $400 a month by tiie probate court for expenses of the home and boy and $75 a month for herself. j ON THE AIR I'll 11) AY NlfillT (I'acllif Time) KtrW, Portland, Ore., 401.5 9::to-10:o0 p. in., Sherman clay & Co.. concert from duo-art studio; 10:3-J2. Hoot Owls, In chuiini? Rose City trio and oth er feu tu res. K PO. 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