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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, ..SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1925 CapitalJUournal An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at i3 o. commercial street. Telephone 81; News 83 CKOHGB PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher Kntored aa second claaa mall matter at Salem, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier 10 cents a week. 45 cents a month. SS a vnar In advnnea. &y mail, In Marlon and Polk couutlc-a, one month 60 centa, 3 months 1.25. 6 months t2.25. I year 14.00. Elsewhere 60 cents a montn. 5 a year In advance. l'UMi i.i:.si;i) wihk associated i-kuss skhvicis The Associated Press Is exMusivelv fnHHrri in thA ..un f- n..i,iin tlon of all news disimtches credited to It or not otherwise credited In mig iiaper anu also local news published herein. "Without or with offense to friends or foes 1 sketch your world exactly as it noes." -btron. The Text Book Bungle The bungled school text book situation is typical of the muddled status of affairs prevailing in state government wherever the present administration has been able to exert its influence. Whenever Dr. Pierce prescribes, the creeping paralysis of politics follows. The mess in state finances, with its million dollar shortage and the muss in the prison with its bloody tragedy, are examples of the effects of Dr. Pierce's favorite prescription. The old contracts to supply school text books have expired, and the book publishers refuse to renew except at substantial increase in prices. So the text-book commission, altho the attorney-general, the legal adviser declares it is acting con trary to statute, and the state superintendent of schools protests, has proposed to select a new list of text-books, from the lowest bidders. If the commission puts through any such program, it means that every family in the state with children in the schools, will have to buy a new set of text-books, as all of the present books will be useless and cannot be passed down the line, and this to save paying an increase in price for the comparitivcly few books that must be purchased. Any such program of fighting the publishers will confiscate the investment of parents in books now in use and force an additional investment for every family for every pupil, in new books, which also cost more than the old. Instead of buying perhaps 20 percent more books of the authorship now in use at advanced prices, the public will lose its total investment in books now in use, and expend 100 percent more in new books, also at prices advanced over present contracts. So it seems the sensible thing for the commission to do is to drift along with the present books until a material saving can be secured. The Auto Light Graft At the time of its passage the Capital Journal made a vigorous protest against the new auto light law, which goes into effect September 1, as a vicious and useless measure, lobbied through the legislature for the enrichment of certain lens and lamp manufacturers and the profit of certain selected "official adjusting stations." It was then alone in its protest. Now there is universal clamor against the law and there is threat of contesting its validity. There are now 200,000 motor vehicles in Oregon. Prob ably the average cost of purchasing new lenses and making necessary adjustments will be ?2f per vehicle, which means the motor owners must punglo up $5,000,000 and over for the profit of makers and selected dealers. If this law solved the problem of glaring lights, the expenditure might be justified. But it does not. In fact, by eliminating dimming, i t increases the danger of night riding. No one ever yet met disaster by dimming. It is the glaring light that blinds the autoist and causes smash-ups. California, which has a similar law, long since ceased try ing to enforce it. This was because it was impossible of enforcement and did not accomplish its purposes. But the effort to enforce the law was not abandoned until ninny millions of dollars had been spent by autoisls in trying to comply with its terms, to-the great profit of the laws promoters. After the profit-taking in Oregon, efforts to enforce the law will be similarly abandoned. We have too many laws anyway, too many absurd regula tions, and have more than plenty for the auto, most or tliem ns this one, designed for the profit of social interests instead of public welfare. The Husband Tamer Bv Violet Dare tuohu.i: in tiik mm P.ilrlria'.f heart fitink as Mrs. Itiwltt accepted her Invitation to Wny with them. Hut Andrew lipamcil; this wan exactly what he V anted. "You'll eoino homo with us to- iilKhl, then, won't yu7" ho uir p.I. "Ymi mil nark your bags in a Jiffy" "Oh. my maid will tend to thrit," Mrs. H.witt assured him loftily. "I never do u thlnp mypelf. I r.-m't: I'm too del la to. Why eiiu-e my operation la.t fall' .she Hunched Into n description th:U faiily nauseated Patricia, who was wnndi iltiR Just how flic enuhl Conciliate the jn-rvanlfl. They had lie en compl;iinl!i!f beean.o there Wfis too ni n lit company what Would they ay now? And hreak fat would there he anythini In tho house for breakfast? Andrew jthvaya slopped nt the lilt j; fur hK and "he herself hud nothing but orange Juice- mid a biioiiie. Cretfory Hewitt permit led his Wife to reaeli tho moment In her teeltal when dw r:nte nut from under the nneiiihotle -"And I snld. 'W here In my hm hand ? I mut e him before I die'" and then hard -lien rtedly Interrupted. "Huro we're not (tolnff to put you people out terribly by Maying with you?" he asked. 'I know these New York apartment lived In ono onco myself. And It's likely lo be cool enough tnnlfrht nt the ho tel; there'll he n bicese." "Why. you couldn't lncnnven lence nst" declared Andrew heart ily. "We've Rot plenly of room!" Patricia's eyes prew quizzical. "Plenty of room!" When he knew perfectly well that It meruit mak ing o many chanjres. Hhe'd Rive up her room he'd been a dear when they took tho apartment, In flhdfnfr that the take tho big' bed-' room for herself, but of course Itj had meant too that she always had to move out when there was company, and sleep on the couch In his den. Not that she blamed htm for wanting th. Hewitts; It would be a big feather In his rap when Norton got back to say lhat he had entertained litem In his own house. Hut her mind was le;ulnt like a flea. She could j:et up early nnd j;o to tho store for fruit and eims, iind persuiide Hildej;iade to m.ike one of iho." marvelous omelettes of hers, and they'd have iinifiins would there be tee enough to chill the melons properly could she j;et -on.l melons? The omelette would be fihiitfiilly rieh, so peihjips It would be better to have e pom bed en toa.Mf d mill l ins, i Mi.i. Hewitt was delienie. Had thti.-e heavy liio n sheets t ome hick from the laundi ? Uh, and she haiin't put away that '.in;eiie dte'd botniit .n the mot nitty ; she tnu.st do Unit the moment xlie pot home before the Hewitts av tho loom Mrs, I li wilt w ;n talk I ni ana in. Her voiee was sharp, disagreeable. "It's so j-'ufty here have yon ever been tn the Vhrysatls ? A friend of mine wont there the last time she was in New York and she simply loved it. She paid It was the plaintext place! Opera sinera nnd 'uiresses and everybody there she saw a man she was sure was Churl to Chaplin, and Valentino ml his wife always go Ihere! 1 don't suppose vmi know It?" "Oh. yen. we've gone there nrc.1 slonully." Patricia wondered wear ily It there was a restutirunt In town to which she hadn't gone. "Hut It's quite a small place, and of course these dance clubs change so rapidly one month they're very smart and the next they're do serted. you know,, This happens lo bo the rage Just now." "This place is great!" declined Hewitt, coming to her rescue. Hut his wife would not he diverted. Well, of course I'd hoped to see the 'Chrysalis' because of what my friend said, fine said it was delightful, so different from all the others." Patricia sighed again. But An drew wfia summoning the waiter. "We'll go there at once," he de clnredV "Of course you must eee it." Patricia had been right. Tho "Chrysalis," divested of iU popu larity, was almost empty. As Broad way society moved on the crowd had changed. Drab looking waiters moved drearily about, the orchestra played fitfully. Several young peo ple sat is a corner, arguing bitter ly with their waiter about a check. A few others danced, cheek to cheek, arms about each others necks, aa they would not have been allower to dance at "Bagdad." Mrs. Hewitt was true to her colors, however. "That's atmos phere! Quaint! Charming!" she exclaimed. "I simply lovo it. Do you think my dear, I'm sure that's Gloria Swanson over there! 'She called for Paris this morn ing I saw the announcement in the papers," her husband declar ed bluntly. "Now, if we're going to get our things together hadn't wo better be moving?" His wifo absented reluctantly. Patricia silently followed her out to the street. A fearful thought had struck her. Tho cook had said that morning that she wanted to go to her brother's wedding. Was it tonight that she was. going? It was! Tomorrow Tho Horrors of Hospitality Anto Production Large. . I Washington, Aug. -21. (A. P.) July porductiou of automobiles n tlio United States totalled 34G,- 720 passenger cars and 37,4.11 trucks. Total production for the year to date of passenger cars is 2,203,219 and trucks 263.643. 24 FEDERAL PROHI HEADS -I APPOINTED (Continued from Page One.) "not yot determined on the man who may moot the requirements. "I expect that after tho new system begins to function," he continued, "some of the temporary appointees may demonstrate their ability to render the service.! "I felt after meeting the state directors that it would be a greai mistake not to give most of them the chahce to operate under a sys tem I feel will give more power ana efficiency to the field enforce ment of prohibition. "More than half of the new staff of administrators will he paid $(i000 a year, the highest sal ary paid in the internal revenu. bureau." Appointees TemnOrarv. Inability to find tho type of men desired for the administrative. posts which carry salaries of 7500 per year, caused postpone ment of the program from August 1, to a month later. Given Free Hand Upon notification of their ap pointment administrators are giv en a free hand in selecting their staffs since they are to be held entirely responsible for enforce ment in their districts. The administrators and the cities in which they will have their respective headquarters follow: District 1 R. B. Sams, acting administrator, Boston. District 2 J. A. Foster, acting, New York. District 2 R. Q. Merrick, Buf falo. District 4 Frederick Balrd. Pittsburgh.. District 5 William O. Mur- dock. Philadelphia. District 6 Kdmund Budnitz. Baltimore. District 7 R. A. Fulwiler, Roa noke. Va. District 8--B. C. Sharpe, Char lotte, N. C. District 9 Halsey Dun woody, Tampa. District 10 O. D. Jackson, New Orleans. District 11 Sam Collins, Louis, ville. District 12 E, L. Porterfleld Columbus, Ohio. District 13 B. Ewlng, acting, Chicago. District 16 W. D. Moss, acting, St. Louis. District 14 A. C. Townsend, acting, St Paul. District 15 A. M. McCampbell, Omaha. District 17 Herbert H. White. Kort Worth. District IS John F. Vivian, Denver. District 19 Elias Maratera, Helena District 20 Roy C. Lylo, Seat tle. District 21 E. C. Yellowley. San Francisco. District 22 Robert E. Frith, Los Angeles. District 23 pj. C. F. Crahbe, acting. Honolulu. District 24 A. J. Hanlon, San loan, P. R. Those designated as acting ad ministrators are expected to fill tjie new positions only temporar ily. The position of chief of mo bile agents was abolished with appointment of E. C. Yellowley, who has held that post, to head tho twenty-first administrative district of San Francisco, In a statement announcing the ippointments, Assistant Secretary! Andrews said the new prohibition! forces would be concentrated up- th0 task of "eliminating the bootleg industry." J Their energies, ho said, would i he directed along three definite lines of attack smuggling, illegal manufacture and illegal diversion "Sources of supply to be reach ed and wiped out as rapidly as pos slble are importation, manufacture diversion and transportation," said General Andrews. "The various agencies of government are being organized to make It possible to ac complish this end. "The market Is our most diffi cult problem, because of its Indif ference to consequences, ignorance and colossal suitability. "The market wll pay any price and swallow any bootlegger's fairy tale aa to quality. But ono by ono intelligent citizens will realize the danger to government and society which they are creating by en richinK this bootleg class of com munity members and feeding fat a business which Is only tnrougn corrupting the very agents of gov ernment and business, whose hon esty Is essential to the stability of society. One by one, they will learn that their imported whiskeys, etc., are made in Canal street from industrial alcohol and thus will refrain from buying them. "The bootleg Industry, in one form or another, extends over the whole country; but it operates mostly in the centers of popula tion. Its business is collecting sup plies and distributing them and its nneratlons vary in size from the small operator, who sells local ly the product of. local stills, up to the biff operators whose lines ex tend into foreign sources tf sup ply and into brotm fields oi distri bution. None of these operations that are big enough to be more han matters for local ponce con trol can bo carried on except through conspiracy to violate the laws. These conspiracies involve mauv persons in various walks oi life. All are guilty. Among these persons the final distributor is of least importance. In fact, he ig sf no Importance to the federal gov- rninent except as he furnishes a line of approach lo the bootleg1 operator whom he represents." A second objective set by the dry field marshal is for the fed eral forces to "exist and develop local law enforcement." Operations along this line, he said, will be "matters for tho ex ercise of judgment, initiative and resourcefulness on the part of the district administrators in meeting the problems peculiar to their re spective territories." "The government, by treaties and negotiations," General An drews continued, "will make it more and more difficult for un scrupulous operators to take ad vantage of the protection of for eign flags. "Behind the coast guard first lino on our sea fronts, and on all our borders, both seu and land, the customs officials are being organ ized and reinforced to take the re sponsibility for stopping smug gling, each along his own front. "With this customs line the prohibition unit is organized to attack domestic sources of supply Distilleries, industries using alco hol and breweries, if proven to be sources of supply to tho bootleg trade, will be proceeded against as nuisances and closed. This is u purely business proposition. asily understood and should be capable of execution. Our inspec tors will be trained chemists an:r pharmacists and our enforcement I ;igents trained criminal investiga tors and under corer operators. 'Meantime, we snail proceed vigorously toward the arrest andi punishment through major con spiracy cases of those who are con ducting the bootleg business These cases will he made under legal guidance and with tho clos est co-operation of the department of justice, will be given speedv court action. "In each district counsel should ive prompt attention to clearing court dockets, in order that the decks "may be clear for prompt ac tion along tho above lines. "The attack on the market must be a matter of education, and can best be conducted by those organ izations and individuals Interest in the law observance and com munity welfare." FIRE NOT THREATENING GREEN TIMBER, REPORT Klamath Fulls, Or., Aug. 21. Unless there is a 'sudden change of wind, the fre which Is now burning through peat land and volunteer crops of oario on the west side of Klamath lake, will not strike the green timber, ac cording to a report early today by Jack Kimball, secretary of tho Klamath Forest Protective asso ciation. The fire already has burned over nearly 600 acres of peat laud on tho farm of Selmeus and Bloomingcamp, and -was still burning steadily this morning. Forest rangers are combatting the flames in n determined effort to keep them from the stands of gretn timber nearby. MURDER VERDICT RETURNED Klami.lh Falls. Or., Aug. 21. Valentino Navarro, railroad sec tion hand, came to his death at the hands of "an unknown per sons,' was tho verdict or a coro ner's jury last night. Navarro was fatally stabbed in a fight at Algoma early Tuesday morning. Luz Laucedo, who, officers say, was found several hours luter near the sceno of the crime in an intox icated condition Is being held without bail and Deputy District Attorney Weist announced that a mu-der charge will be filed against him. DUMB DORA By Chick Young : AA, UeiiE. COMES W3RA1. JOSV WAUK UOME WITA VAEW AK5t SPENt TAE' WON'TCOSTNAE. A CENiT .0 I9M Premier Syndicate. Ine, ; 'CmPfMnh n't UELUDDOQAV - Mi:0 MADAME OTe" if fH 0S-t?Wj w-mwiSh BEAUTY PARLOR 5EE,WfOLKs( X UAMfcAU . -IwELtfyvJv'' V': - I AttE.AWA-AKJD APPOINSTMBMT KS X--Jv!, f -V to AEESiminAMTX y (w "wens? ) f0 c7 J ) BRINGING UP FATHER By Georffe McManua oadd-y-uook:diovoo S tC THj ARTICLE IN THE.' Hcyw 010 thkt evE.ts'c,T im The.' ppe!?i've cot soAore vith CEORCE PORTER. TODAOf - IF H 5EEt TH?5 HE.VJOHT EXPECT' 1TM i n Tun yt 01925 w Int-C FiAninc Svrvick. In Ort Bfiitfn rithu tNrd.' TELU ME-jlWb- - WHtLRE t. too 4... PHOtSlN' FROM?. 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