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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1927
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HYRON.
Hoover For It
Secretary of Commerce Hoover during his visit to the
Black Hills, did his best to force the president to action for
relief of Mississippi flood refugees, in rehabilitation of the
country and the rebuilding of destroyed levees. He declares
immediate federal aid is needed, that states affected cannot
carry on the work and local communities cannot meet the bur
den. Mr. Hoover states in hm report to Mr. Coolidge:
The greatest of all measures needed Is prompt and effective flood
control and quick legislation for that will restore confidence and from
commence will come recovery In values and in business. The govern
ment should take over and repair the whole levee system of the flooded
area whether or not the levees are under government jurisdiction. Con
gress snouid also lurnisn relief In hclpinn to pay Interest charges and
amortization for holders ot levee bonds in sections whero floods have
prevented a planting of crops tills year. Most of the levee obligations
wm not lau aue umu aoouc January i.
There is only one way by which immediate federal aid for
Hood control and rehabilitation can be secured and that is
by a special session of congress to authorize the needed ex
penditures. But because of the election slush funds and
contests in Pennsylvania and Illinois, Mr. Coolidge has re
fused to call an extra session and bo helped complete the
economic demoralization of the south and speeded the dis
tress of its people. The session should have been called last
spring and so prevented the industrial chaos now prevailing.
Barnum Was Right
Some 75,000 representative Americans have paid over a
million dollars to see Jack Dempscy, a has been pugilist, mix
in the ring tonight with a second rater, who styles himself
"Jack Sharkey" because his Lithuanian name 'contains too
many syllables for the erudite tight lans to master.
It is doubtful if any other event could gather together
as vast an audience, even if those attending were paid tor
beinir there instead of punnling up exorbitant sums and sub
mitting to all kinds of discomfort. Certainly no intellectual
treat can master more than a fraction of the crowd and even
crenius lacks the drawing power of a commercialized pug.
This is because the prize ring offers entertainment that
strikes the mental level of the mass of men, who having Be
come too lazy to delight in physical struggle themselves, still
pninv it between others as a spectacle.
The prize ring is so thoroughly commercialized that no
one is safe in risking a wager on such an event as that staged
tonight when an ex-champion seeks to come back against a
vigorous and youthful second rater. The fight may be on
' the square and it may not be. Anyway Tex Rickard has
amply demonstrated, as Barnum did before him, that the
public likes to bo humixiKecu.
Wise Action
The board of control acted wisely in refusing to under
take the new building program authorized by the legislature,
though under the supreme court decision in the Salem build
ing case, they could not have consistently done otherwise.
The board obeyed the mandate of the people m the June
election and cut out new construction.
While a decision on the building of a new normal school
nt LaGrande has been delayed, there is every prospect that
mi , i l 1 ..i:l n..nV. finin na mnnpv frir COnSLTUCllOll
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has been assured. There is no more need for a third noim.il
school nt present than there is lor a inuu umv.ia y .m "
the project was again submitted to the people, would be vot-
Cd ThTiuberculosis hospital, the hospital nurses home . the
office building andotherst
rea y needed, can wait umu "" Tihi
haveybeen readjusted and placed on b
then, the board can only exercise me
The Planter
of the Tree
By ROBY M. AYRES
QMcCluro Newspaper Syndicate
THIS V1CAH.
Every week-end Sanderson nncj
Sometimes came down to etsiy from
Saturday to Monday, nnd then Phll
lu took Sally out In a long splunl
chair .or in a car, and Sometimes
ran on ahead like on outrider, rc
turning every few minutes to sec
that everything was in order.
The cottage was in the heart of
the Surrey hills, and nearly two
miles from the nearest village. At
first Sally crumbled at its isolation,
"Nothing but fields and trees,"
she wailed. "I shall die II I (ant
have more life. If only a motor-bus
would go by!" But when the wea
ther improved her spirits improved
also. A great many motor-cars
passed by the little cottage, and
sometimes as she lay tn her long
chair in the small front garden, peo
ple would slop and speak to her.
One day tho vlear from the village
rode over on his bicycle and had
tea.
"A Nosey Parker, that's what ho
Is," Mrs. Klff declared after he had
taken his departure "Such impu
dence! He asked me what relation
you was to Mr. Sanderson.' '
Sally smiled and her blue eyes
sparkled with unusual interest;.
"What did you say" she nked.
"I told him you was nonel" Mrs.
Kiff said emphatically. "I told him
you was just friends, nnd then I
as good as told him that It wcrcnt
any business of his, anyway.
Sally laughed.
"There'll be a scandal," she said
Bnd was pleased.
When SanuciMin came down at
the week-end she told him:
"We've had the vicar to tea. Ho
rR a nice vicar, with big shoulders
and grey hair. Ho asked Mrs. Kiff
what relation I was to you."
"He can mind his own business,"
Sanderson said sullenly.
"I don't expect he'll come again,"
Sally answered. "I think he way
shocked."
13ut the parson did come again,
several limes. He was a very hu
man parson, and he told Sally that
he was a lonely man and that he
lived in a big, rambling vicarage,
the half of which Mad been shut up
since his wife died, six years before.
"Did you live all alone?" Sally
asked.
"Yes. I have one son, but ho Is
abroad."
"A black sheep I expect," Sally
suggested. She had a vague Idea
that nil parsons' sons were black
sheep.
Tho vicar laughed, but he did not
look at nil offended.
"Well, he's a wanderer, certainly,"
he ndmitted. "He found life too dull
here, so he went abroad. I don't
blame him. I dare say II I could
have done as I wanted to do when
I war his age I should not have
been the vicar of Ash Hill now."
"It can't be much of a Job," Sally
agreed.
She liked the parson; iie had kind
eyes and a deep voice, and his name
was Nairn a name of which, as
she told htm, she entirely approved.
"It sounds upper-tennish!" she
explained.
"It's a good old Scotch name," the
parson agreed.
One day Sally asked htm how old
he was.
"How old do you think?" he in
quired with a twinkle.
She haznrded a sums.
"About tlxty?"
"No, I'm only fifty -throe. My ton
is twenty-Bight."
"what a his name?"
"Garry I"
"What 4 funny namel"
"It was his mother's maiden
name."
"Oh!"
It was strange how Interested Sal
ly became in all these little things.
Three months ago It would have
bored her unspeakably to talk to
such a man as Robert Nairn; it
would have bored her unspeakably
to take tea with him: but now she
quite enjoyed his visits and looked
forward to them.
In return for his little confidences
she told him about herself and how
she used to dance at the Faun Cafe.
Her eyes sparkled and her cheeks
flushed with excitement at the mem
ory of those days that now seemed
so Car, so very far away. She des
cribed the frocks she used to wear.
and the admiration she got from
the men, and the suppers she used
to be taken to and the flowers that
were given to her.
"Have you ever been to the Faun?
she asked.
The parson shook his head.
"No, but I am sure it must be a
very amusing place," he said kindly.
"It was! It was Just Heaven!"
Sally breathed, and the tears ran
down her cheeks. She looked awav
from him to the open window and
the garden outside, where the trees
were budding, and the daffodils
were just peeping up from their bed
oi green leaves, and she saw in
stead the blue and gold upholstery
of the Faun cafo, with its dozens
of small tables, each one lit with
a golden lamp, the many flushed
excited faces, and the gleam of the
polished floor upon which her tiny
lecc nau so often danced.
"It was Just Heaven!" she breath
ed again.
The parson smiled and leaned
back In his chair.
"We all have such different Ideas
of Heaven," he said. "Now, what
do you think mine is?"
Sally wiped the tears from her
eyes to answer scornfully:
"Golden stairs, I suppose, and
harps and angels."
He shook his head.
"No, it's a spring morning like
this una nine and flowers and
birds, and perhaps an apple-tree In
blossom like tliat one in your gar
den. There could be no finer Heav
en." Sally stared at him.
"You are fuunyl" she said.
But again he was not at all of
fended. He just laughed, and said
that it was a good thing everyone
had not the same opinions.
Then Sally told him about her
accident.
"It was Philip's fault," she said
in a hard, ugly voice, "He was drunk
and he knocked me down with his
car. He always Is drunk after six
o'clock in the evening," she added
angrily.
"And who Is Philip?" Mr. Nairn
asked.
"Philip Sanderson. He gave me
this cottage, and he pays Mrs. Kiff,
and or me, too. He comes down
every week-end. I expect you'll see
him some day. He's very tall like
a chimney-stack, and he wears aw
ful clothes, and he's got a hideous
dog called 'Sometimes who goes
everywhere with him. You'd laugh
it you saw the pair or them, I expect."
"And it was he who knocked you
down?"
"Yes, the" Sally bit back the
bad word just in time. Somehow,
by instinct, she never used bad
words before Mr. Nairn.
"Poor man!"
She stared at him.
"It's me who's the poor one," she
said oiiendedly.
"I am more sorry for him," Mr.
Nairn insisted gently. "Think what
his remorse must be." i
Sally considered. !
"Oh, I don't know," she said re
luctantly. "He's a queer one) You
never know where you are with
Philip."
"He seems to have been very kind
to you."
"No more than he ought to have
been," she answered sharply. "I'm
finished for life, and I haven't got
a halfpenny. He's only done what
he ought to do."
"And that is a great deal more
than most of us can say," Mr. Nairn
answered.
Sally lost her temper.
"Here, I don't want to be preached
at I" she shrilled. "If that's what
you've come for, you needn't come
again." But the next moment she
was apologizing. Somehow Mr. Nairn
was not a man to whom you could
be rude without Immediately apol
ogizing humbly. And he took it so
well, he told her that he just wanted
to be friends with her, and before
he went away he promised to come
again quite soon.
"Garry will be home in a month
or two," he said. "I shall bring him
to tea if I may."
"I'll be thankful to see anyone,"
Sally told him ungraciously. "It's
frightful lying in this place alone,
with only Mrs. Kiff to talk to."
"I like Mrs. Klff," the vicar Bald
cheerily. '
Sally relented Immediately.
"So do I. She's a dear old stick,
she agreed.
Tomorrow Bad Temper.
CALLED BACK EAST
Silverton, July 21. W. h. Cun
ningham (Cunny) proprietor of the
"Cozy" left Monday for Mansfield,
Ohio, because of the serious illness
of his mother. Mrs. Cunningham
has pneumonia and Is in a critical
condition. Mr. Cunningham, Sr., is
also ill with a nervouse breakdown.
Open Forum
Contribution! to this colum
must bo plainly written on one
side of paper only, limited to
800 words in length and signed
with the name ot the writer.
Articles not meeting these speci
fications will be rejected.
To the Editor: I wish to protest
the treatment accorded visitors at
the state penitentiary. A few days
ago I went to the prison with a
young lady from Annlston, Ala., who
has a cousin incarcerated in there
and the chinless wonder who claim
ed to be the deputy warden, but he
acted like he owned the place, point
blank refused us admittance unless
we could be identified.
How in can we bo identified, her
being out of state visitor and right
behind us people came In and were
passed right thru, without any trou
ble. Of course we stopped at the
governor's office for a permit, but
like Bulling Walter, corn bread. She
Is conducting her business admin
istration running around the state
mending broken bridges and gates.
The young lady In the governors of
fice got a fine start in politics, she
sure knows how to pass the same
old buck. I'm paying taxes In state
of Oregon and maybe some of my
money goes to pay that pig eye dep
uty warden salary, I'm not carrying
any shotguns or rifles in there and
when I'm going back next week I
want some attention from those
chair warmers.
C. J. ALVIN
267 Hall Street, Portland.
LEAVE FOB. VISIT
Silverton, July 21. Mrs. Bruce
Wheeler, her young son and Mrs.
Fulgham left of Cascade Locks
the first of the week where they
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