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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925
Capital j Journal
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"Without or with offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly as it goes" byron.
The Next Step
Passage of the city zoning and planning ordinance de
signed to regulate type of structures erected within certain
districts is the most important move yet made to insure the
building of the city beautiful through uniform construction.
It will stop the erection of unsightly service stations and
shack corner-groceries among expensive residences, where
they depreciate property' by making the neighborhood uiir
sightly.
There remains, however, a still more important move in
the announced plans of the mayor and council necessary in
the building of a greater Salem, and that is the acquisition
of the present water system as a preliminary step for a
municipally owned water supply that may in the future be
extended to secure a gravity flow of mountain water, if
deemed necessary.
Generally, municipally owned and operated utilities are
not a success because of politics, but the water systems form
an exception to the rule. They have proven so universally
profitable, that there are but few cities in the country that
do not own their own water supply. The advantages are
' many, for the municipality can secure money for extensions
at lower rate than private capital and can thus keep pace
with the growth of the community.
Bonds issued for a water system differ from those issued
for general indebtedness or for street improvements, inas
much as they are income earning and not only pay back the
principal, but pay a profit. Other bond issues pay no re
turns, except perhaps indirectly by enhancing property
values and must be paid off, together with interest, by taxa
tion, but the water bonds carry themselves.
Salem should own her water supply so as to insure need
ed extensions and enlargements and a greater volume of
water for consumers. The preliminary step, of course, is
appraisement and purchase of the present plant by the is
suance of bonds. The present owners are as fair and ac
lommodaling and anxious to please as any private owners
could possibly be, but Salem has grown to the point where
she should not be dependent upon a corporation but own her
own water system.
Eventually everyone admits that city ownership of water
is bound to come then why not now .'
down hare while 1 go out to the
Kitchen and fix flomethinff for you.
I'm a good cook you know."
"Sit down nothing! I'm going to
fltlck my head under the cold water
faucet for five minutes, and then
come out and help you."
A ehe hurried down the hall
Cynthia heard the door of the side
board open once again, and then
close ahnrply. Evidently Noel had
locked his flaaki away with the
bottle from which their contents
came. She laughed softly to hor-
Relf. If she could help Noel to
brace up, Just now when it was so
necessary for him to do so, hor
evening wouldn't be wasted!
He Joined her in the kitchen a
tow moments later, his hair soak
ing wet from the drenching he had
given It.
"You're saving my life, my
dear," he announced. "I'm going
to be like the Chinese; if tlicy save
a man's life it belongs to them,
you know. Well, mine belongs to
you from now on."
"Hut I wouldn't know what to do
with It," she protested laughing.
Oh. Cynlhla dear, you would."
Ho had dropped his flippant tone
suddenly. "You could do big things
with me If you cared to. Won't you
give up Jim, who doesn't care for
you, and take me In his place? I
adore you there's nothing I
wouldn't do for you. Please, dear."
Cynlhla shook her head.
"Noel, I couldn't. I don't love
you."
"rerhnps not, but I could teach
you to. And you don't love Jim
cither. A girl of your spirit could
n't go on loving a man who treat
ed her as ho has treated you."
Cynthln lay awake far Into the
night thinking over those words.
Perhaps ho was right, nnd It would
bo bettor for overyone If she did
an ho begged hor to do.
Tomorrow Polite lllnchmnll.
Undor the blue tky act a per
mit wae Issued to the Copo Filip
corporation of Portlnnd to sell
stock In the sum of $25,000.
Count Shows 4727
Cars Using Highway
Thru Salem Each Day
f
Statistics compiled by Fred
ThleUen for pwatble uae In a law
milt over the erection of a gaeo
llne eervice elation at the corner
of north Capitol and Court etreeta
film !.3h a basis for an estimate of
the number of automobiles para
inff over the Pacific highway
tiirousn Hniem in any given
length of time.
A man stationed on the Thiol-
sen property last Saturday and
last Monday, between the houra of
8 a. m. and 6 p. m. of each day,
counted a total of 9455 automo
biles passing the Intersection of
the two streets. On Saturday there
were 4822 and on Monday 4633.
The averape daily traffic would
stand at 4727 1-2. The average
perbotir would stand at 472.75
automobiles.
Dropping the fraction for con
venience, and assuming that a
sufficient number of cars passed
the point where the observer was
stationed to add four more hours
at the same average, the actual
dally average would stand at
5199. This would amount to 36.-
393 cars in a wCek without even
counting the extra traffic on
Sunday. During a month of 30
days there would be a total of
155,970 automobiles pass the
point for one lone observer to
take their census.
In a year there would be 1,
897,635, to say nothing of leap
year, when there would be 1,902,-
834.
The figures furnish opportuni-,
ty for tho statistician to speculate
to his heart's content. The point
where the count was made marks
the place where the Pacific high
way joins Court street. If the ay
eruge kort up throughout the win
ter months, and half the cars
counted were cars coming into
Salem on the highway, there
would be nearly a million cars a
year using the highway Into and
through Salem,
Thielsen is assumed to have
been having tho count made with
the "lea of showing that the new
service station would not be a
nuisince, since It could not make
any appreciable difference In the
number of automobiles passing
along the two streets, particular
ly north Capitol street.
SCOTT SAVED FROM
GALLOWS AGAIN ON
EVE OF EXECUTION
(Continued from Page One.)
wife, who, for weeks fought to ob
tain a commutation, played what
she believed to he her final card
in Springfield where she appeared
before the board of pardons, and
when tho stay was granted, was
rushing from Springfield to Chi
cago by autoombile to hid her hus
band farewell almost at the min
ute of his execution. She arrived
to find the court action had stop
ped tho hanging.
Scott, who had been surly and
defiant throughout the night and
who apparently was completely re
signed to his fate received the
news that his life was spared, at
least temporarily with consider
able surprise. He had known
nothing about the last mlnuto ap
peal ot the court.
"I'm tickled to death," were his
first words.
Then upon learning that the
stay had been granted to learn if
he were sane, Scott added: "I'm
no more crazy than the Judge who
granted me a stay on that ac
count. I am not asking for any
sympathy from anyone, either. I
am innocent.
Yesterday now counsel hastily
summoned by Scott s friends, had
hurried to Springfield where they
met the governor and board of
pardons and presented a plea for
a reprieve, attucklug some of the
state's witnesses and maintaining
that they had uncovered new leads
which they had not had time to
develop. 1 he board, however, re
fused further clemency and Gov
ernor Small pointed out that Scott
already had had two reprieves.
On receiving this news which
apparently sealed Scott's fate,
Mrs. William McGraw and Mrs.
Icuhot Hurst, both of Detroit, rep
resenting Detroit club women who
raised $5000 for Scott's defense,
hi'.stily retained William Scott
Stewart, criminal lawyer who re
cently successfully defended Will
iam Darling Shepherd, accused of
the murder of Hilly McClintock.
At midnight Judge David, called
from his bed, agreed to call a ses
sion of the court if his bailiff and
clerk could be found.
Then, with tho minutes ticking
away, clerk aid bailiff were rush
ed to tho county building. A lit
tle group of newspapermen, th?
judge, the attorneys, Scott's
friends and his aged father, muds
up the gathering. The petition,
signed by Scott's father, recited
that the condemned man has be
come insane since his Incarcera
tion, fifteen months ago in the
county jail.
Within twenty minutes from
the time court had been convened.
the stay of execution had been
granted. Robert E. Crowe, state's
attorney, was not present nor rep
resented at the court session and
apparently did not know of it
George E. Gorman, his assistant
who prosecuted Scott, when In
formed of the action, said:
"I have not a thing to say ex
cept that they tried to fool the
governor a week ago and now
they are trying to make a fool out
ot Judge David. We will fight it
to the ond. This man deserves
the rope, and he will got H before
wo are through."
One of the reasons assigned by
Attorney Stewart for believing
Scott insane was hie refusal last
night to broadcast by radio an
nppeal to his brother, Robert
Scott, Indicted with him but nov-
" f you want to forget
the weather,
remember me!"
h i
If
A
or unprehended, to surrender and
save him trom tho fallows. A mi
crophone had bceu placed in
Scott's cell.
Almost at the same time the
stay was granted, word came from
Port Huron, Mich., that Robert
Scott was believed to bo dangerously-
111 there. They were in
clined, however, to believe it was
another hoax, concerning the
whereabouts ot the missing Robert.
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By Chick Young
A Perquisite of the Privileged
President Coolidfje, who is full of copy-book morality,
recently repudiated a statement he had made ns "While
House spokesman" to assembled reporters to get out of an
awkward diplomatic situation, the olhcial stenographic re
port, however, proved that the president did make the state
ment ho denied making. As a result, the president lias now
forbidden any reporter from taking short-hand notes ot Ins
interviews and dispensed altogether with the oflicial report
er, so he is free to deny anything he says without written
Droof to the contrary.
The president however, has nothing on Governor Pierce
who also oozes conv book morality. lie has always been free
to deny one day what he said the day before and has fre
quently done so. lie also announces appointments and then
unannounces them, as in the case of Senator Garland to the
fish commission. Of course the governor's word, like the
president's, is above Question and supplants that of a dozen
reporters. Moreover, the governor does it belter than the
president, he is perhaps more practiced, at any rale, more
picturesque.
The reporter is the goat of the great and he fully realizes
from sad experience that "half the world knows not how the
other half lies." The reporter lied is the eas:est way out
of many an injudicious utterance, but most of the reporter's
lies ' are but the truth in masquerade.
One Wife on Approval
By Violet Dare
a iu:i.ri.j ham
Cynthln cabled J tin Hint after
noon, tplllnir him Hint ah conlil
not ko to llvo with hi alfltor. Then
she Hppnt tho nrxt hour trying to
, write to him, ami finally finished
ft letter which, nllhoiiRh It aultoil
her no better than the ones nhe
had torn up and thrown Into tho
wnHto basket, came ns near bdnn
what hIic wanted ns any who could
write. I
Fhe trk'd to tell him how much
Alio Htill cured for him, and how
bewildered phe w;in at hU treat
ment nf her. In previous letter
Bho had H:nmed it. Hho told him
how brnltt'ii-lionrtcd she had been
when lie lunk hi mother with
him, and how much nho wanted to
nee hlni ni?;iln.
"If you will Jut ftay the word.
Ill nunc to you now," nho wrote.
"Hut If you don't, I'll know that
you no longer want me. No doubt
Louella had written you of her
auspicious of nie. I have done
nothing wronn, Hut if yon prefer
. her opinion nf me to tho truth, I
ahnll probably really pive you both
annielhlnr; to c.rltlclio nu for. Your
family ha never been f.ilr to me.
but I wouldn't mind that if you
At 111 mred for me ns you once
did."
iy dinner time ahe wim sorry
that who had not accepted Nol
Gardner's Invitation for the even
ing. tSho was desperately lonely.
Her ono maid had the evening off.
and she was quite nlone In the
partmont. When tho bell rnng, at
a little after nine, she answered
tho door herself, hoping that It
would be Cerlle Malcolm. Kven
though ahe did not particularly
enjoy Ceclle, unwelcome company
would be better than none at all.
But It waa Noel Gardner whi
confronted her.
"Sorry to trouble you, especial
ly as you didn't want In Are me
thla evening," he began. "Hut I had
to como up and get aomethlng I
left here."
Cynthia drew back quickly. Noel
had been drinking; she realised
that at once; aha detected It only
by tho alight change In his manner.
lie- went to the sideboard In the
dining room where he kept his pri
vale Htock, i.nlockcrt It. and filled
two large flasks from a bottle that
ho kept there. Cynthia could hco
him from the living room, but ahe
tried not to watch him. U was none
of her nffalr, of comae. Noel wn
certainly old enough to know what
he waff doing. She tried not to .show
her disapproval, but when he Join
ed her again he sensed It.
i on and say what you think
of me!" he exclaimed, hesitating
bcfide her chair. "I know It al
ready, lint don't be too hard oh
me, Cynthia. I wna ho. darned lone
some I on in hi, nnd wanted ho much
to acq you that when you naid you
couldn't have dinner wli h me I '
didn't much care what happened.
I went over to the club and stayed
till my supplies nnd my friend'
were exhausted."
"Oh, Noel, don't expect me to
criticise you! I've had too much
critic lam myself to want to turn
on anyone Ho. Your life Is your
own."
"I know It, and I'm anrry.
don't want It ! he retorted.
you'd just care enough for me not
to want me to drink, nnd tell me
tbnt you didn't want me to, I'd
quit. I'll go nut now and cut loose
probably make a fool of myself. I
ounht not to, I have a deal on
thal'a Just reached the point where
it requires all the ability I've got,
if It's going through. Hut I can't
go It alone, Cynthia. I'm a fool
but I need somebody to take an
interest In me. I thourht mayhe
you'd do It, but when I talked with
you today on the phone I realized
that you didn't care what became
of me."
"Hut I do; I care a tot!" she
cried. Jumping up nnd laying her
hand on his arm. "You're one of my
bent friend, Noel. Why don't you
turn over a new leaf right now?
I'll aland b you, linn t go on and
drink tonight. I do want to see
you make a big nuccesN of things;
I am your friend."
"Knough to let me upend the
rest nf the evening with you?"
"Why, of course! Tell me. have
you had dinner? Well, then, sit
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