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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1925
Capital Ji
. M.
Journal
Snlem, Oregon
An Independent Newspaper Published livery Afternoon Except Sunday
at 138 S. Commercial Street. Telephone 81; News 82
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
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this paper nnd also local news published herein.
"Without or with offense to friends or foes
1 sketch your world exactly as it goes." byiion.
The Klan Celebration
The Ku Klux Klan held a monster parade at Washington
Saturday with some 25,000 Knights of the Knighties from
till eastern states in line. The celebration was concluded
with the burning of a fiery cross outside the city .limits
across the river, in the rain. The affair was a spectacular
success, except only that three quarters of the advertised
100,000 marchers failed to show-up.
There are those who protest such exhibitions, but the
protests are as foolish as the parades. It is the constitutional
privilege of 100 percent Americans to make fools of them
selves whenever and wherever they desire, and this inalien
able right should not be curtailed, at'least not for the Nordics.
The melancholly part of these Kluxer celebrations to
Klansmen is that they herald the passing of a dying delusion.
The Klan contains within itself the germs of its own destruc
tion and these parades are a final effort of the Wizards,
Dragons and Kleagles to rekindle the waning enthusiasm
and keep the graft alive at least for a little while. It has
been the history of the order that dissension, disintegration
und decay follow the great celebrations, as night the clay.
Where the Klan is new, it has a mushroom growth, but
even the morons tire of pungling up for the profit of
politicians and the enrichment of the self-annointed. Base
less hate of one's inoffensive fellow citizens soon evaporates.
If the Klan spreads like wild-fire, like wildfire it soon burns
itself out. The south which gave it birth, and the west
which cradled it, have seen it pass and in the east it will
soon be interred in the cemetery of lost illusions.
A Beginning Made
A beginning has-been made towards the acquisition by the
municipality of the city water distributing system by the
authorization of an advisory committee to consult with the
council committee and an arbitration by engineers, of the
plant's valuation. When this has been satisfactorily arrived
at, the next step will be submission to the people of a bond
issue to cover purchase price.
With the growth of the municipality, the need for city
ownership is becoming every day more apparent, for only by
it can needed extensions and enlargements be adequately
financed. It is becoming increasingly difficult for private
ownership to secure the capital necessitated for development
and the money can not be secured upon anything like as
favorable terms as the municipality can secure it. Moreover
with the municipal ownership constantly threatened, private
capital is reluctant to make such investment.
With the distributing plant secured, there will be plenty
of time to decide upon a future source of supply, should a
change be necessitated. The first step, however, is to buy
the distributing system and then perfect it by necessary
extensions.
Cinderella of a Day
"There is no tool like an old fool" and millionaire Edward
A. Drowning as fairy god-father has done his best to justify
the adage, and has been properly buncoed by the Cinderella
he sought to assist, who turned out a meivinary little adven
turess of 21 instead of a school girl of 16.
The aged realtor first advertises for a girl to adopt as his
heiress, then adopts the first pretty applicant, without
investigation. Then he buys her 50 gowns, a $10,000 auto
and places every luxury of the land at her disposal upon
the supposition that he is benefitting her. All this is done
under glare of publicity that provokes official inquiry and
proves the young woman an imposter.
Credit must be given the fairy god-father for discovering
a new and original way for rich old men to make fools of
themselves, with the best intentions in the world, of course.
For the fortune she has lost, our Cinderella of a day cheer
fully substitutes the capitalization of the notoriety she has
won and will now bunko the public in press and film.
One Wife on Approval
Q Ily Violet Dare
run I oi i i.lv
lialnht to S;wt
A NIHH'IV
"Now. we'll
ley'H of fit i1," nti lion need I,oui'l1:i,
a Cynthia r Joined her in the llv
inc room, "J'vi! hi'i'n phoning him,
Ami ho J. i lil t)i it he'd k to Noel
Gardner's off it o and get your
stork from Noel. And Stanle 'it
gnUK to t; ko in to hineheoji" hhv
added, It h a he:imln umilf".
Ho Stanley was cairer lo take a
hand In this lils. The telephone
rariK before Lnthla could reply,
nnd Louella, nuiiiiuuim:, "Thai
imi.it he Sianhy," hastened to nn-
wor It. Alter n moment's paup,
however, she turned to Cynthia
ceiver In ham!.
"It'd Noel Gardner." he ftnld
"You don't want In talk tn him, d
you ? I uppoBp he Just want t
iuk If it's all ri lit to let Staute;
take thft Mock."
"Tell him It In." answered Cyn
thia wearily. Hut evidently Noe
wan Insistent; finally Lonelln Jam
h Lh
Xoel
.tfie
Noel Cuidner
ji5iile nt once.
uo that you re
ek In the. sub
n. I.el.ind?" he
med (ho receiver down on the huol
Impatiently.
"Ho tmya he'll he nt Sifinley'n of
flee," he announced unenslly. "Hi
wns qulto nifln; neted ft If I'd kept
you from comlnff to the telephone."
I,oueIlA chnttored gnlly an iney
went downnlnlm nnd itrovo to her
hunbnnd's office, Cynthia,, ntnrlnp
out of tho window, wondered If this
change In her sister-in-law wm
wholly duo to the desire to buy bnrk
tho stock which Cynfhfn had
bought from Mndnmo Iceland
through Noel Onrdner. What a
simpleton LoueMa must think her!
Stanley was waiting for them nt
look Cynl hl.t
"Cynthi.i. i. It li
;;Ihk to sell this M
division h.iek to Mi
demanded.
"Ve.V
"Hut -hut didn't you nude
.stand what I told you this nion
mi: - tli.it I've hl that Jam! for
a factory ,to, nnd that the stock
has more than douMcd In value
a result '.'"
Cynthi.i ranch! n Rllmpo of
l.otHila'n face over her shoulder
It was crimson, she smiled, of
'course I.ouella hadn't supposed that
who knew I
"Yes. I understand." Cynthi.i
told Noel, -nut I'm Pellinn it for
what I paid for it. Madame he
land wants It hack."
Stanley was staring nl her tn
blank amazement. Noel was look
ing at her a If he thought I-ouelln
hail hypnotized her.
"Mill but are you sure " Noel
began again.
"Yes, absolutely sine. I want t.i
sell the stock. Noel. It 'a quite nil
liKht," ho told hlin.
He shook his head, nnd turning
to Stanley, took out tho stock cer
tificates. Throughout the follow
ing transaction Cynthi.i en unlit
St n nicy staring nt her more than
once, and smiled to herself. Of
course, he couldn't understand.
When Onrdner had pone he turn
ed to her a once.
This Is n darned pmtlni? thing
to do, Cynthia," he exclaimed, "of
course mother uMn t know when ,
alio uld the stock that It was go
ing; up "
"No, uhe thought it was worth-
leas, that's why she was so willing
to aeii it," Cynthia cut In.
"And Bhe didn't know you were
buying it," Louella added. "Or she
wouldn't have let you do bo, of
course. Mother would never let
you suffer because she apparently
had made a mistake."
Cynthia did not reply. She did
not feel so confident of what
Madame Leland would haVe done
as Louella did.
"Jlin'H going to bo awfully
proud of you when ho hears this,"
Stanley announced. "And when he
gets home "
Cynthia turned wearily away.
I wonder IE you a excuse me
from lunching with you today,
Louella," eho said. "I'm so tired
my shoulder still bothers me,
you know."
Louella was most solicitous, but
Cynthia Insisted on returning horn
without her. She was tired of the
whole Leland family. She would
go home and write Jim that letter,
she told herself, nnC then she'd
slip away as she had planned to do
the day she met Ceclle nnd was
cnvk-gled into going on the mid
winter house party that had al
most had such disastrous conse
quences. Hut at home she found a tele
gram that changed her plana moat
decidedly.
"At St. Teter'a hospital, San
Francisco. Say nothing to family.
but join me immediately if you
can, it read.
And it was signed "Jim."
Tomprrow More Food for Scan
dal.
Mcdford Pro-jooling & Storage
company, riedford, to Bell stock in
tho sum cf ?40.000.
Baker White Pine Lumber com
pany, Halter, to sell bonds In tin;
sum of ViOO.OOO.
Collapse of Channel
Swimmer Comes As
Goal Is Nearly Her's
Boulogne, France, Aug. 11
(AP) M-Isb Lillian Harrison;
Argentina, who was taken from'' tl
water in a state of coUap. last
night, when eight miles off Dover,
while attempting to swim across
tho English channel sufffcd a
relapse after reaching her home at
Oris-Nez today. The doctors said
her condition was not serious," but
that she would require adequate
rest for somo weeks.
Miss Gertrude Ederle, ihe Amor
Jean girl whose indisposition last
week compelled her to postpone
her attempt to swim the channel
until August IS, has not yet re
sumed her training. She la re
maining nt her hotel and will not
begin training in the water again
until Thursday.
Miss Harrison, In addition to her
physical relapse, is suffering from
letdown in her morale, which was
severely broken by her failure of
yesterday. She complains that she
has had very bad luck, meeting
unfavorable weather conditions on
all four of her attempts to swim
the channel. She vows she will
never try It again.
Miss Harrison this afternoon ap
peared to be far from well and a
doctor was summoned. Her fath
er asserted he desires to have the
advice of a physicinn as to wheth
er it would be prudent for her to
make further effort to swim tho
channel.
Her fourth attempt to swim
the French to the English coast
yealerdoy almost brought
death through drowning, when she
waa within eight miles of the goal,
Hover. She had been in the water
for seven hours and five minutes
and had reached a position better
than any other reached by channel
Hwimmera In the same elapsed time
Fortunately. the strong Egyptian
swimmer, Ishak Helmy, waa at her
side in the water when she col
lapsed. With the words "catch me,
Helmy I am going down" she
clutched the swimmer. 1 She was
semi-conscious when hauled
aboard the accompanying tug. It
was shortly after 7 o'clock that
her unexpected collapse came when
I lie flood tide seemingly was rap
idly drawing her toward the Eng
lish shore.
Jabez Wolff, who la training
Gertrude Ederlo for her attempt
to swim the channel, holds the op
inion that Miss Harrison's collapse
was due to lack of proper nutri
tion. She la a vegetarian and Wolff
declared it was his belief that the
diet on which she had been living,
did not afford her the amount of
nourishment which was necessary
for any one undertaking such a
strenuous swim as that across the
channel.
Under the blue eky act the fol
lowing permits were issued:
A. E. Lnflnr. Portland, to oper
ate as stockbroker. "
Mcdford Pre-cooling & Storage
com pan v, Med ford, to sell bond:!
her in tho sum of $70,000.
MOVE TO BUY
WATER PLANT
IS ENDORSED
(Continued from Page One.)
looking to the purchase 10 or 12
be the sense of the meeting that
tho works should he taken over
wag on a motion by It. J. Hen
d ricks.
Deckabach Puts Motion.
Dr. H. E. Lee Bteiner, Buperin
tendeiit of the state hospitul for
the insane, was conservative. He
said he had not voted on the Hen
dricks' motion and wanted to
know what w?.s planned for the
future I: of ore he expressed Uini
scir. Pic eaid he would not op
pose municipal ownership, but
pronounced the present water Hup
ply thoroughly tiufe from a health
point of view,
F. G. Deckabach made a joint
motion that engineers be mutually
selected and that the advisory
committee be named by Giesy and
Hicks. Dr. 1J. 13. Morris ut first
opposed this, ui-iug that the com
pany he ullowej to name a price
and then a committee be named
to investigate this. Upon further
explanation by Deckabach, how
ever, Morris seconded his motion.
John 'II. McNary opposed the se
lection o a committee, declaring
it would not advance the move
ment in any way.
Aonraisal Fund Needed
"The public service commission
lias made an appraisal of the
plant," said McNary, "and this
can be used ac a basis. Let the
city name an engineer, the com
pany one and they a third." Ho
pointed out that the engineers
would deinunc compensation of
about $50 a day and that the job
of appraisal would require 15 or
20 days.
Alderman George W. Thompson
and August Huckcstein took simi
lar views with McNary. Hucke-
stein went into the history of the
movement to Bonie extent, and said
that Louie Lachuiund made the
biggest mistake of his lite when,
us mayor, he vetoed an ordinance
looking o the purchase 10 or 12
years ago.
Mayor Giesy threw on further
light by Informing the meeting
that he had had a conference
earlier in the day with Mr. Park
of the water company, and that
they had agreed cunt the mutual
selection of engineers would bj
the proper way to proceed. Tho
mayor, however, insisted that
there should be a consulting com
mittee. Procedure Reversed.
This caused Deckabach to with
draw his motion, allowing McNary
to move for the selection of cngi
nere, Deckabach explaining that
after the vote on McNary'e motion
ho would renew his motion for
the naming of a committee.
It was at llila point that T. B.
Kay spoke ugainst the purchase
on the general grounds that he
was opposed to municipal owner
ship of utilities except in cases of
emergency.
Isadore Grcenbaum mentioned
the opposition to a bond issue -f
the question reaches an attempted
purchase, but he contended that a
bond issue would be good for the
community, "a community safety
valve'.' he called it.
Win&Jow for Condemnation.
Walter Winslow threw in a new
thought when he opposed the selec
tion of engineers. He took the
position that the decision of en
gineers would h unsastifactory,
that charges of graft would he
made, and that the only fair way
to arrive at a valuation is by con-,
diminution in the courts where a
jury of 12 woulj decide. It would)
be tried out in the federal court,)
he eaid.
D. J. Fry Sr., made a humorous
tall:, pointing out that the mect
inir was not for the purpose of tak.
DUMB DOE A
nig coucluslve uctiuu and that it
was no time to get excited.
Willinui J. .Roberta, on engineer
of Tacome, waa the uoxt speaker.
Ho saw Jallacyl In Winslow 's re
marks, declaring that even with
coudeiniuition an appruisal would
have to be mad 3. lie opined that
tho selection oi engineers to make
an appraisal was tile proper pro
cedure, and that the verdict oi a
Jury ot 12 in condemnation pro
ceedings woud really be a Jigure
decided upon engineers.
D'Arcv Endorses Move
Jude U'Arcy humorously
referred to all that had been said
as "wah wan." Ho expressed him
self in favur of the lnove.howevor.
The votes were taken on tho Ale
Nary and the I'jcckabach motions,
both passing overwhelmingly.
Alderman Gallovuy wanted fur
ther light on tho probability of
getting a better water supply. He
said be doubted if the people
would voto to take over tho sys
tem unless they were assured this
would lead to the acquiring of a.
mountain water supply.
Alderman Wendcrolh, who made
an investigation of the possibility
of getting moi'.ntaln wuter, said
the general opinion was that the
plant sl-ould be acquired and tho
mountain water question be left to
a later decision. Because of local
conditions on the Nurth bantiam.
he said the likelihood of getting
water from that source had large
ly bsen given up, and that it
might be necessary to go as far as
Marion lake, whicn, he said, would
be a big project.
U D. Cooper, the engineer who
made the actual survey, said that
while the little north fork of the
Sanliam had shown the best test
of water by tha state board of
health there was doubt whether
that watershed could bo niaintain-
d and the purity of the water
retained. This, he said, led to the
possibility that it would be necess
ary to go to Marion lake.
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