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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1926)
PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 192G CapitalJournal Salem, Oregon An Independent Newspaper, Published Every AfUrnoon Excpt Sunday at 136 S. Commercial Street. Telephone 81; News 12. GEO HUG PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher Kntered as second-class mall matter at Kaletn, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier 10 cents a week; it cents a, month; $5 a year In advance. liy mall In Marlon and Polk counties, cn month 60 cents; S monltia 91-26. 9 months $2.25; 1 year $1.00. Elstwher 60 cents a month; $6 year In advance. ITI.L I.K.VSl 1 Wlltfc ASS(K l.li;i) I'KI SS bl KVK U The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for pubtlca tlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news published herein. ''Without or with offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly aj it fjocs." by no:. More Bureaucracy Tireless and sleepless are the bureaucrats and very in genious in devising new ways and methods for sustenance and propagation. Like nphids, which live by puncturing plants and sucking the juices, the bureaucrats live by puncturing the taxpayer and sucking his suotenaiice. Like the aphids, also, they are characterized by the enormous rapidity with which they reproduce and their means of migrating from one host to another in their search for pap, as the aphids do for sap, even returning to the same host until it is exhausted. We read in the dispatches that Lane county is to be the starting point for Oregon in a new paternalistic movement, whereby the farmers are to be organized to operate under the direction of a bureaucrat of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture to determine the estimated yield for the coming year in order to control production and regulate the price ot the larmers product. ' The movement apparently has the support of the farmers who through wide-spread organizations are demanding gov ernment aid in the shape of government price fixing to be obtained through political pressure. In a recent speech, Senator Wadsworth of New York said: I dread the diiy when, from a Kivornment office In Washington or A government office nnywhere elne, there shall conio a decreo Hint 1 mid my neighbor) ahnll sell a particular crop for a certiiln amount of money, at a certain place and to cerliiln apecltled Individuals or con cerns. Yet that dreaded day is apparently at hand. At any rate, the bureaucrats are taking full advantage of the situation and instead of there being one person in every eighteen on the public payroll, there will shortly be one in every ten. And yet the more we are regulated, supervised and ordered about, the harder up we get, for we have to pay the supervis ors for destroying our initiative. Selfish Strategy Portland is now seeking to have the state assume the $61)0,000 indebtedness on the Columbia river bridge between Portland and Vancouver and make it a free bridge by abolish ing tolls for the benelit of the motoring public at least this is the excuse listed. The real reason is to discourage the building of a toll bridge on the lower Columbia and retain the auto traffic for Portland. The obstructive strategy is thus disclosed in the news columns of the Oiegonian: Furlher pinna for fighting; authorization or construction of tho proposed private toll liidK across the Columbia river between ltaliiler nnd r.oiiuvlcw will be initdo by the port development committee at the 1'ortlaml Chamber of Commerce In a meeting called for 4 P. M. Tues day. I'rotulnent among the committee's strntegem are plans for mak ing tho Interstate bridge between Portland and Vancouver a frco span which would inalie the ltalliler-I.ongvlew toll bridge Idea less attrac tive to promoters nnd Investors, nnd plans for hnvlng Washington or Oregon or Interested portions of these slates build through a bond Issue between J.ongvlcw and Italnler a bridge which would he so high nnd leave so wide a channel that nil possibility of Interference with Port land's port development would be obviated. If the building of a new, bridge cannot be halted in con gress, Portland proposes to make it so costly as to make its financing impracticable and by competition with a free bridge make it unprofitable in operation. It is anything to retain a traffic monopoly for the metropolis. The' Revelations of A Star's Wife A Story of Slurried Lire nnd the Molia By VtOMOT n.HR Author nf "A Wire on Leave." "Wlmt a Widow Knows," clr. Copyright, 1923. by Tha Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. mohi; i:xir..NATioss. flo we couUm't pay the mun who'd sold us the nw tire of rmi rue. this would nil happen when wo hailn't a npr iilonir. and not one of the old oiu-h xvm worlh imtchlni;. The flnanciii. nitwit ton didn't worry mo nny, lltoimh: J l1 m.u l'd wilh nil tho nonchnl;itu'0 In the world. 'Sorry I h.twn't nny nion.-y, but I'll Klvft you my rani, nnd wlini I Kft homo, 1 11 mall ou ft rhirU." Ami wllli that 1 Htfiih'il to diivo off" "And tho Kar:ic man itipp'l us!" ('hni'lla, hurt In. intorniri 1m; Junny, "llo wis horribly "f ly, thf minute hn loolu-.l ut Piinny'n ianl, nnil ho sal.l: "No, fllroo yomin man you don't pull nny of that Httiff on im! only yi'Hton.uy you liioU that Kiinic ovr In WnihlncKm nnil Rot away with it, hut you ran't fool me!" A tut ho Kiabb.-.l lMnny by tho (houl.br the inlmitn we etop lrtl nnil h uilcl him out of the car." "Oh. It wnn lin pie enough tc. e. e what hint happened of countc," lmnny wont on laurhliiK. "jmo chnp'n hnn Koine atound hw miylnc he wa Ian (innlnr. am! rh-nnlti up; probably h-Vd roeop nlznl me, thoimh why he didn't pick eouicbody who wa hi-ttrr known I ran't ere. And thfiVh been n plii villi him who olalni"d to he ClauiUa lorvern. who's ltMn clennlntr tip verywhere huyln.: tiihiRK nt the nntUU nh"p mound hero, nnd elnylnur at Itni.-ls and noi paylnif hr bllle rp" lally In I,rnox and fltorkhrMnn and Pltis flrM nnd the other bin towna. "So whm Clnudta cut In and Mid ehe wm hereelf and would Identity me, that aettled thlnu Hut whnt nut the finlhlnr touch on the whole party wna whrn the man wild with contempt that I'd give a lot to he nhle to Intlmnte, I euppone thl kid' a reh-hrlly too, and when Claudia auld that he was Hush' ion." "Tlwit i oally made him mad," . -bid Claudia, "lie simply xav-l cd; nnd that ia when he murrhed ua off to jail. Danny thounht the whrdo thing was BcrpnmlnBly fun ny, of courae, and we planned to phone you nt once to como nnd Identify un, hut whn we Kt 1 the vourthouse In this town, tliore wax iho man who tml tloKola nt that dance Danny and I went to the itth.-r cv.iiImii. And. my dear, he Id. nil'hd im as r.nnt'ta HbUs and I 1 1 1 1 1 ; 1 1 1 1 rllitu;ton!'' "And that enrac.-d the constnble fin that ho wan nil for Hilpplm; to Sine Simr or eomcwhere ni'tl lit'' I hit; a bid iv ward for c ip lur ing tm ni lmpoNterw." Danny cm llntlt'd. "It foems that tlH"e oilier people have been rashlnff eheeKs that were foiod with our names, (n addition lo Ihelr arloun other crime; cel . a inly It imi'l have been some other one who had noeti hi aiionnl nriir t'laudla'n and no knew that Wo Were both up here. Hut tint' nil the tale theie in, fiilka- -except that tbcie's a wed dint; buoUcd for tomon-nw iiou n inc. If you can cet mt of J ilt and home In time for the t-tre-motix ;" "Yc uod-'V murmured llunh, n. havltiK canted out varioue tiann aetlonit with the ettiffy little m in In ihatxo and convinced him that ri. nulla and Danny Were thetn nelvc". he led the way out to the car. ''All I can think of to nay Is what Stilly claim the public nl way rem a i kt nbout folks like u--'lnn't that exactly like motion pb'Uire actors!" llunh anil 1 officiated aa hrxt man and matron of honor at the weddlnu on the euulh terrace the next day at noon: thrn we depart ed fir New York and work. I was n't ai.ny to ro, delightful though the time had been that We'd epeut at t'lnudla'a, and I Could eee that Hugh wa wild to net hack uiul jump Into thing. Tmrrow A Itcmd' Turn Inc. CITY ZONING LAW PASSED BY COUNCIL The .Salem coning ordinance, long discussed and for a long time In the proccati of formation, came into being us part of the Salem government ayHtvin Iuat night when when It was passed by the city council. It will be alined by May or CJlesy as noon ns Home minor technical mncndmenla are written in,t and since the measure carries the emergency clauae It will be cffectlvo aa toon as si.ined. 1'ilor to the council meeting last night a hearing was- held by the council to give the public oppor tunity to protect ugalnst the meas ure, but only one citizen spoke In protest anglrmt it. This was Walter Downs, who spoke against It at the irevlous hearing a week ago. Downs declared that the people of the city want no zoning ordinance and that they so expressed them selves last May when they refused to vote funds to suport a planning commission. He averred that the council was taking too busty action on the measure, and that It was too Important for hasty action. "It means expense nnd litigation with the taxpayer paying for both sides of the court fights that will follow," he said. When no other persons manifest ed a d eel re to speak on the subject the council adopted the report of the planning commission recom mending (hat the measure pass, and when It was put on final pass age near the end of the session the vote for It was unanimous. The mailer of the A. X,. lllrse korn petition fur authority to build a new laundry building where his old one Is now located at 1.1th and Stage Whispers Daniel In the Hons' den bad nothing on Douglas MncLean, judg ing from the fumnaker'a laughable predicament In his new comedy, "Hold That Lion," which opens to day at the Klslnore. In a laudable endeavor to prove himself a hero In the eyes of the one and only girl, the redoutable Maclean Joins what he mistaken ly believes to Is a "cat" hunting expedition. When he discovers that the "cats" are not the famil iar and harmless household pets but wild, man eating lions, It Is too late to withdraw. As matters turn out. Instead of MucLoan hunting lions, the lions hunt MacLeun. The results are just as funny and exciting as one would imagine. In the end, the comedian has the last laugh on the animals, for ho succeeds in captur ing a live lion, though In a decid edly unorthodox manner. The lion hunt is merely the cli max of a long series of mirth pro voking adventures, which begin in New York when MacLean falls in love with a charming blonde. Un fortunately, the girl starts on a round tho world trip before he can propose, but he manages to catch up with her In Africa. Thereafter the complications pile up with amazing rapidity, attaining hilar ious and cyclonic proportions dur ing the Hon hunting episodes. Fox Films, living up to their promise of showing the beauty spots of America In all their pro ductions where It may be consist ently done, filmed many sequences f "The Canyon of Light," which comes Thursday at the Oregon. The result Is a picture not only with an absorbing story, but a scenic of rare beauty. Tom Mix Is cast in the stellar role of Tom Mills, the ranchman who at the opening of the world war goes to France, where he serves as a dispatch bearer. But before and after this event he is the hero in a series of episodes all of which are a part of a finely de--eloped and motivated Btory, that is replete with thrills, excitement and suspense. Tony, his wonder horse, has a prominent part and the beautiful Dorothy Dawn Is cast in the lead ing feminine role. B streets was finally disposed of by the council last night when on rec ommendation of the planning com mission It refused to grunt the au thority on grounds of general health and welfare of the commun ity, lllrsekorn himself spoke on the subject, declaring that not over 25 per cent of the people were pro testing against It, while the zon ing ordinance requires a protest of 50 per cent. Alderman (Jalloway npoke In llfrsekorn's behalf, de claring that he had talked probably to GO persons about It and all of them had branded as unreasonable the action nf the city officials. ITe said he could not understand why Hlrsekorn would he allowed to go ahead witH his business In his pres ent unsightly building and be In hibited by the city from erecting a better building. Hlrsekorn has this right under the zoning ordinance. .lames (J. Calllson spoke In be half of those who opposed the Hlrsekorn application. He said that the people living In the dis trict wish to live according to their station In life and that they were neither denizens of a New York east side nor of Little Italy in Tort land. IMor to passage of the znnlnc COUNCIL VOTES INCREASED PAY Ordinances were passed by the city council last night making pos sible an increase of $000 each in the salaries of Chief of l'ollce Min to and Fire Chief Hulton, making them $2400 instead of $1800 a year. Tho increases are made pos sible by the elimination of one po lice officer from the city pay roll For the fire chief it was not neces sary to vote an additional duty upon him, but since the police chiefs salary is fixed by ordinance it was necessary to give him anoth er job, and this was done by cre ating a board of censors of which the police chief Is the head at a salary ot $000 a year. Other ordinances passed last night were: Assessing the cost of improving South street from Fairgrounds road to Cottage street, $5018. Assessing the cost of Improving Madison street from Capitol to the Southern Pacific tracks, $4,779.- Amending the franchise of the Southern Pacific company by al lowing the company to abandon Us street car tracks on South Winter. Oak and South U'th streets. Segregating the assessment lev- led on the property of A. C. Haag and others for the Improvement of 17th street. Vacating the alley in block 17 of Nob Hill annex. Ordinance bills Introduced last night were: Providing for and assessing the cost of Improving Lee street from 14th to a point 370 feet beyond. Providing for and assessing the cost of Improving 14th street from Mission to Lee. Providing for and assessing the cost of Improving Mission at reel from the Southern Pacific to 16th street. Accepting a parcel of land from Sarah and W. W. Walker. Kstabl'shing sidewalk lines on the west side of Hazel avenue. 1 UOM MoMINNX 11,1,1; Silverton, Dec. 21. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holmes and children of McMinnvllle visited the week end with Mrs. Holmes' mother, Mrs. Sarah Adamson. Their eon Phil lip, who fa a Btudent at the Uni versity of Oregon, remained to vis it the week with his cousin Dale Moores. pavii; IS ILL Stayton, Or., Dee. 21. Ceorge Davie Is confined to his home with a bad cold. Floyd Crabtree acted as tonsorlal artist In Mr. Davie's" absence. (iOF.S TO POHTLAND Fa 1 1s City. Dec. 2 1 . K. p. 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