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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR CapitalJtJournal Saletn, Orcpon An Independent Newspaper I'abllshcd Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 136 S. Commercial Street. Telephone 81; News 83 CBORGB PUTNAM. Kntered as second clans mall matter at Salem, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hy carrier 10 cents a week, 45 centa a month. S5 a year In advance, ISy mall, In Marion and l'olk months $1.25, 6 months $2.25, 1 month, $5 a year in advance. I'll.L l,EASICI Willi-: ASMJCIATKU I'HIJSS KKIIVICK The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for nuhllca tion of ail news dispatches credited this paper and also local news published herein. "Without or with offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." -bvrox. Conservation Gifford Pinchot, to whom national conservation, is hailed as a "great statesman" by the Portland Journal which declares that because of his efforts "the American people still own a remnant of thoir forest wealth" and "still possess the coal in Alaska" and he is acclaimed for "his imperishable achievements as governor of Pennsylvania," though no one knows what he has accom plished, He is characterized "as the most useful man in the Republican party," and we are told that "thousands look to him to save what is left of the water power for the people. "Conservation of national resources for the benefit of the people" has a high and lofty sound, almost as inspiring as that other panacea that was to cure all of our governmental ills, the purification of politics through the direct primary. Indeed so plausible were the arguments advanced by politicians seeking to ride to power through these beautiful theories that it took years of experience to convince the public that both were quack nostrums. When title is left in the name of the people, it means that the people pay the taxes, instead of private owners. It means that the politicians administer at the expense of the people. It means that statjs and counties are deprived of voice in and control of and of revenues from large portions of their taxable wealth and pauperized thereby. It means that progress and development are thereby thwarted and retarded, and the only beneficiary of this program of mythical salva tion is the bureaucracy. The national forests do not do the people who own them one bit of good. They are a constant expense and liability. The people have no say or voice in their control, but are barred from entry or put under red-tape restrictions by the administering officialdom. No private owner would dare im pose the restrictions upon the public that obtains in the national forests. When the timber is sold, an infinitismal portion is returned to the counties affected but the bulk goes into the insatiable maw of the bureaucracy. "Saving what is left of the water power for the people" is also inspirational, as is the continued federal possession of coal in Alaska. Stripped of bunk it means that develop ment is retarded by being hinged about with numerous restrictions and that a certain percentage of the earnings of the project must be turned over to support the bureau over lords. This expenditure is of course, added to the price the consumer must pay for light, power or fuel, and the people must pay higher rates to give the developer the same percentage of profit in his investment so buroniirrary may prosper. The benefits of conservation are revealed in the case of the Oregon and California railroad land grant. The most valuable of the land had long passed into private ownership as originally intended, but the railroad company still held large tracts of land, much of it isolated and worthless, upon which it paid state and local taxes in every county in western Oregon. To save the unsold grant land to the people became the battle cry of politicians and through congress, legislature and courts, the lands were declared forfeited and returned to the federal government, where they still are, and likely to remain, too valueless for utilization. Some of the timber, there is little left, is being sold on a stumpage basis. A small per centage of land can be utilized by settlers, not as free home steads, but iion appraised valuations, but most of it is brush and scrub timber, not even good for grazing. The lands have been saved as the "heritage of the people," the people are paying the job-holders who administer them, the railroad is saved from paying the taxes on them, and the consequent deficiency in tax receipts, caused by their loss, is made up in increased taxation upon property owners. It has not benefitted the settler, has not stimulated develop ment, but has taken tax-paying proju'rty permanently off the tax rolls. That is the way conservation works in actual practice. One Wife on Approval By Violet A NIW U,Y Cynthia hud expot-U'd tho worst of thnt evening. She had thought that probably film and Madam.1 I.e laml would nit Cuius one another for ft drrary hour or two, mlMin derstn:i IftiK c;uh olhr pcrfei t ly. It ut a tni'i'l! in ntor for hfr. At hulf-past einht the door bell J.mglnl Imp 'tirntly: ft mo ment later Loiiflla I.clanJ and hrr husband, Utanloy t k, were an nounced. C!ithla hn,i mot Sun lry Chirk only a few lime, and hardly knew him. I'.nt that rwn In, as Mm. Inland and ln-r d .uih tcr retired to the library for a prl vate conclave, he turned to Oyn thla with a hylh grin that shr found delightful. "First chanre we've had to talk," he observed, ncatliuc him self beside her. "iIov do ycu like our town by this time J IT mi It seem awfully slow?" "Oh, not at all!" exclaimed Cyn thia forvently. "Anything but that." "I hear that you rather ataiiled the community this noon by lunch in with a hnndHome ut ranger who was Indecently Rind to see you," he commented; Cynthia would have been angry with him but bin nmllr unarmed her. "I don't blame you. I -houlrf think you'd have been: S lad to see anyone you d known before you landed here. )h, I know what thla town can do! I came here to represent my firm Jmrt few month before I wa married, and for awhile I thought 11 was the Jumping off place. Then after 1 Editor and Publisher countien, one month 50 cents, 3 year $1.U0. Elsewhere 50 cents a to it or not otherwise credited in christian endeavor means Dare met I.uuclla and wo bora mo en sanotl, 1 thought It wan worse you can't draw a Ion breath without having somebody run ami tell some one else about It." Cynthia amiled, wondering whether Madame l.eland bad been fible t manaire this son-in-law as he dul her own children. Iio loused to jk Sl.inby, but foil that It would somehow bit dlslov.il. "You'll like It here u hen you know t.ie ieip)e, he went on, tak iiiK n ck-ar out of bis case, am then apparently reconsidering and putting It back acaln. "Hut It a a Kossippy town, there'! no question of that. Tell me. when Jim cum ins bat k ?' "In a eek or ao, I think," she antmcrcd. "He said that when ha went west he might look Into those Investments of Madame Lelnnd's. the ones she made while he wan away with me, on our honeymoon." Stanley raised his eyebrows sharply, but Madame Iceland and Iouella returnrd to the room Jutt then, and nothing further was said. Cynthia went home the next morning. Riving the excuse that she wanted a book she had been reading a few days before. In real Ity shfi wanted to sea how her kit ten, Mark, was getting along, and to warn the maids not to feed him t jo much. Rhe walked along slowly, plan ning to ruakd her outing last as long as possible, ladauie Leland had said that when she returned they would go chopping together, and Cynthia wu not looking for ward to the trip with any pleasure Her mother-lnHaw waa always ex tremely unpleasant to the shop girls, speaking curtly to them, In sisting on being waited on at once, no matter how many people were ahead of her, and frequently Insist ing on being shown a number of articles and then not buying any. "I was J ast looking," she would say haughtily to the disgusted shop girl, and aaunter away, and on tho one expedition of the sort that she and Cynthia had gone on together. Cynthia had returned latir and bought something of each girl who had been so treated. She was wondering as she ap preached her own hono whether she could possibly take Mark back to Madame Leland'a with h'.-r. He would be such company, to.nehow But of course it was out of the question. Madame Leland wouldn't have an animal of any kind In the house. Nearlng the house, she noticed a number of children playing on the lawn; she know that two of them lived next door, and it was only when she saw that they were chas- ng her kitten that she felt at all dU-turbed. Then ehe began to hur- y. "They mustn't do that; he's such a little thing and he Isn't used to children; they'll frighten him," she thought, as she ran along. Just before ehe reached the house one of the children nearly caught the kitten, who, apparently much frightened, darted toward the street blindly. Cynthia ran for ward, calling, "Mark, Mark." But he did not see her. In an In stant he had gone dashing Into the street, just as a high-powered road ster swung round the corner. Cyn-, thla screamed, and ran forward, but she was too late. The driver of, the car slowed down and swung to one side, to stop, but Cynthia's gay! little black kitten lay lifeless at the! .side of the street. Tomorrow A New Friend. BRINGING UP FATHER A.W-JObT TE1UI- -(OUR. TAtvE. HER. ON v,CTlO "tLl- oc -3 1 Uli&cran LIKE MUWOMEM AM- .vomt let -rouco-then she'll co auons MS'TSU KN VrAff HOME AN' EtSJCV LLPS - C ' " 1 ' ' ' ciMJr IntiFi Jjj CreH Britain righii reterved. ' " 77 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG -r ,: I A&AIKS-iT -S.VABK VLUG J I , ''V-... r Yes. The A o A sos evsr .. ( L. '.-;.. CiiRL uKt I. f in : f- - V KRAZY KAT MUTT AND JEFF BoVS TiT WHAr ALU TOURlSTi Jo - I.E., wewT vp to Pike's PAK ANb TOOK A BiftDs-eve- peeK. AT THa BeAuTIFUL coo)T ry, INI COLORADO SPRINGS THSV LAll) THa CORNISR-tToWS-OF THa NSW LIOM TAMfiBV cluOI W PUGQL TrtV PLAVfiD GOLF ON THa MOlt FAMOOV SUM-BAVcsb FARUJAVJ IM XH WOftLt). n& wow LCAue- THfiM IM CRA.Nlt JVJWCTlOW, cot. ft.?- 'JSL THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON V Members of Pioneer Jones Family Hold Reunion Near Brooks (By C. V. Ashbaugh.) Uroohe, Or., July 7. In trc hady oak rove of the "Nosfc Farm," the obi home place of S. V. K. Jones, which lies just eaj. of the pioneer church between Urooks and Gervais, there gath ered July 4th, 125 people, just half of the living descendants ot this pioneer. They came from California, Washington and distant places within our own gtat for the ftrst auuual reunion, coming back to the spot wnero this great family began ite Ufa in the new country; back to renew old bonds and to meet, some tf the younger ones &t least, for the first time. Although the distance traveled by some was far and the vay rather weary, as Ralph Jones aptly Btated in his response to the welcome, the mod ern motor car, when compared to the ox-drawn wagon and the pavod highway to the long rocky trail, makes one ashamed to refuse the call to meet in honor of a man who risked all and underwent untold hardship to transplant his stock to this soil. The four living children of SUis W. R. Jones are M. L. Jones, Will! known rancher of this district and! also the only one of the children living who crossed the plains with his father; Mi's. Emma Simmons of Woodburn, Mrx Sarah Clarke of i Portland and Scott Jones of Oer vals. After the dinner which was served from a 'able that stretched its length through the grove and contained almost everything that a famished person could wish and an epicure demand, a program, in WIFE. VOO'O like TO T6 THE MOOSSTAINfcJ Speeding I t- THAT THE GRAMtl NA, 00 still HAM THel peAcHes IMTHU v!?,,1 . L M TH LARGciV FLAT-TOP M LARGGVC J toujw'. XJuiV FlNftTN ft&- HAft. c J I L I 1 ki.n.XA,, ... FLATHSA1N O SM TWO f WE'LL) HAP-'.! ) 0 I MlBK.-.lJ cluding both elders and children, was given. "America," was sung by all, fal lowed by the "I ford's Prayer." Tne welcome was given by Mrs. Clarke, and the respond by M. R. Jon-is of Oakland, Cal "One Happy Day," writtan by Grace Austin, was read by her daughter, Julia Bell Austin; "Th-. Old Haymow," y Betty Jones; "Mehitable Bird, by Veda Harris, and "Ma and t. Auto,' by Veiraj, May. Many interesting things were told by M. L. Jones in his remin iscences. Althot'gh he was on'y past four years old when he-started on this lone, long trip, he sayo that certain of the events stand out clearly ia his memory, he got the title of "the old man" from the amount of advice that he gave during the journey and he claims to have retained that title to th present day. There were five wagons In the train four drawn by four-ox teams and one drawn by a four-horse team, in trie l-t- ter the family rode. One wagon was loaded wtih crackers. This was to serve as bread, for without suitable means ot- baking, to fur nish loaves enough for a family cf ten hungry chilaiti, to say noth ing of the help that was taken tJ care for the stock en route, wotitu be most discouraging for a coo1:, however able. In bidding her many friends and relatives farewell, Mrs. Jones visited, with one of her younger children, a neighbor whose chil dren had measles unbeknown to either. The disease did not break out until they were well on their way. and although It added much Not the Answer A Condescending OiilWMpW" I I I MACj.e -' 1 I f wf i i m I 1 Ftt-tI . . . . I THetltWAlNi) fZZTT Ml IVL PACK. OCR. SpP ICO-T" W ' ' M Up They Visit Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Grand Junction in One Day. to the trials and discomforts, did little harm. At the Ia:t post, Mrs. Jon bought herself a black silk dresa. probably knowing that It would be years before any bargains of the kind couid bo found In the new countrv. He told ot the wagon upsetting and how quickly it waa righted and on its way, but that the "polio" containing some $5000 was lost. When quite a waye from the scene o the accident ite loss was discovered and Mr. Jones rode back and ln-.d no trouble find ing it with its contents entire; how the wat-:h dog. Lion, kept the maraudering lutiiuns away from the stock. One? when the men were away the entire band of 100 cattle was run o . oy some young bucks. His father and the others scattered to :ind the missing herd While riding alone, upon totj ;i!ng a rise, he jaw on the oppose slope the Indians ana caiue. War in? his hat he shouted across i"or them to Vrinfv the stock bick at once. Evidently they under stood for they nuekly complied. Their only wash boiler bounded out of the wagon at the rough crossing at Green river, uyomiu and although unable to swim hit- father plunged t'-s horse alter u Lion, the das, got sore feet during the long journey and although coaxed to shave the wagon, would ride no place hut under the bed on the rounds cf the running gear Hills were often encountered, dau gerously steep. In going down, trees were cut and tied behind as drags. He told of his brother, Joseph's attempt to train as a guard, using the old pepper dox pistol and how, during the process, it left him with one finger on his left hand, short. Their only fuel on the broad prairies was buffalo chips and as soon as a stop w:u made for camp, it was the younger ones duty to gather a good pile of them. Fran cis Elizabeth, six months old and a pretty blond baby, attract:d much attention from the Indians. Many bargained for her, one chief mfenng seven ponies, but for som Barney Expected T-LL' OCll. o? AND Tpum VTLt (Sl'Je N A GREAT eUANC To CRAH IN ANBfj '.'.?UNSrtiwS. Squirt ' A UTTtS OP LILA4 PERFUMS tN W NEW SU1AU.OUJ Tail. COAT Snob on, hfc litilL Hwtbs SJl . I . S' A I v ' . - . JM fi - - -- .-j I reason her parents did not care to! sell. Old Lion stayed with the family for some ten years after their ai rival and proved to be a flue block dog, but although hla pupmoe were kept with ino expectation that they would prove even bettar than their father, they were al ways disappointing the way of the mongrel. Mr. Jones proved by, this, with an including wave of his hand over his listeners, tint; "blood will tell." j Lion was never allowed to enter the house imd never seemed to tare to, but one evening after he; was a very old dog. while iho family were sitting in tho big liv ing room, he walked boldly in ai-.il, to each member he of ft red lu paw as was his want in groetins-j A ft or Suing ibe rounds lie maru-j cd quietly tut of t lie door atul was never st-en rgain. A much we.v:ured U-t'or, thv property of Mrs. Emma Sininirms. which was written by her falmr ridding his hi t hers and sitQ.ai good-bye just nric. ?o his start for the wiids of Oregon, was read. H bore the dut? of January 2, lSn:t. In it this old pioneer told of Un intended journey and his Teas in for taking it, tho amount of sto.?'; and other moveables he intendcl to transport. He expressed a parting wish that some means might later come that would enable his d ?..!' ones to visit him, nut that he nev er expected to fcoe them ngiin. Time proved that he was mistaken as he. himself got to return .o the old home town of Kokomo, Indip.na, where he spent the re maining years of wis life. He was 97 when he wen, to his rest. Scott Jones then read a paper containing statistics and accom plishments of the family sinco ;is transplanting. Practically a;l trades and professions are repre sented. When the call came fi.r volunteers. 18 responded from 'his family to fisbt in the World war. In the earlier day5 thoir ocntiu tions were various freiglit ?: sheepherders, tuvJ::r men. miller. MM vou.ms kit tv ); get a dime, "n: ;:,;! out op W PoRse, , !;! HTftlVr HIM UWtlA sl 4 M fUESDAY, JULY 7, 1923. aimers and developers of laud " 8. W. R. Jones wub of the rug. ged type, about C feet 7 inohH8 jn height. He waa 39 years old wlun lie loft Indiana and wasfx montnt in crossing, arriving in Septetnbi uf 1853. The ten children who came win hfin were Jamas Thomas, Josi-nh P., Rachol, Wlliiam II., Susan e, Silaa A., Jesao H., Madison L., .Samuel AV. f.nd Frances Eliza beth. M. L. Jones wm made president of tho organization with M:a. draco Austin, secretary. A com mittee was formed to assist the president composed of Mrs. Sarah. Clarke, Mrs. II. L. Jones and Mrs. Graro Austin. ThP day Tor the annual mooting was set for His fourth day uf July, tentatively, subject to change at the pleu ra of the committee. OREGON FLAG GIVEN POSTAL DEPARTMENT Washington, July 7 (API Oregon and Mississippi state fhina were accopted by Iu.st master Gen eral New today for tho postoffice department's collection .which now lacks only tho flaya of Kansas, Ne vada, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming to make It complete-. The Oregon flag, the gift of Portland postoffice employes wna presented by Senator Stanfield'a secretary, Mrs. William G. Burk head, Jr. New Corporations Capital City Loan association, S.Oem. Spence Investment company, Sa'om. Contract Purchasing company. Port .and. Clcnhave Rost Home, Portland. American Toll Bridge company, Portland, to sell stock in tho sum if. 100.000. myth-Witter & com pany. Portland, tii eell bonds In tht fum of MOn.000. Bv George MrManus By Billy de Beck 4fflmVwa3& ;;' v itmrn IfclJ . !.f. nl ''mfjJ!':'' By Herri-nan ?'-i-l . -r. 7-7 By Hud Flslior 'yooft tt2A OF COMCUT is ip llrki CKPCNSfi ROLL i j&H-H.IQ WW.