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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 192ft
L.apital Journal
Balem. Oregon
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I sketch your world exactly as it goes."
The Auto Grounds
The city council has voted to continue in operation the
municipal auto camping ground, at least for a period.
There cannot be much objection if it is kept merely as
a camping ground until such time as it can be utilized as a
children a playground and public park.
It is not the utilization of the property as a temporary
camping ground that arousea objection, but the effort to
put the city in the auto resort business by erecting perma
nent cottages and other buildings, which will destroy its
beauty and keep the municipality, with a large investment,
permanently in business in competition with private enter
prise. Buildings cannot be erected without cutting down trees
and otherwise marring a natural site that only needs slight
landscaping to be made a real resource in a city shametully
shy of public parks. ,
Our government was not designed for the promotion of
business enterprises, and they should form no part of its
efforts. The park was purchased by public subscription to
be utilized for a then public need, an auto camp ground,
until Buch time as the auto resort business became stabilized
and private enterprise could supply the deficiency. That
time is nearing, or already here, and the city should with
draw from a field it never was designed to enter.
A Futile Effort
The effort of Senator Robinson of Indiana to involve the
Democrats in the oil scandal by charging that Sinclair was
a heavy contributor to Al Smith s campaign tund in rjzi) and
was in return subsequently appointed to the state racing
commission is nronerly termed "demogogic slander." Even
if Sinclair had contributed to the Smith campaign and in re
turn received an honorary appointment it would have been
merely in accordance with political custom and no charge of
moral turpitude been involved.
Robinson's statement however proves to have been a
falsehood. Sinclair did not contribute to Smith's campaign
fund either in 1920 or thereafter. Moreover Smith was de
feated in 1920. Sinclair had been appointed on the racing
commission, because of his prominence as a stable owner,
four years before the Teapot Dome deal was pulled off.
It was not Sinclair's campaign contribution that has
aroused the nation, but what it involved. Having bribed a
cabinet official to loot the nation's oil reserves, he put up
$160,000 after the crooked deal to nay Republican party
debts to receive protection. Only a few leaders knew either
of the contribution, which was carefully concealed lor rive
years, or its purpose.
The attempt of the Oregonian to make out that the
Democrats were similarly tainted, because Doheny made a
contribution to the Democratic campaign in 1920, is equally
misleading and false. The Democrats were iot in power
! when Doheny sent his $100,000 black-satchel bribe to a Re-
publican cabinet official and received in return naval oil re
serves. Itvwas a Democrat, Senator Walsh, who despite offi
cial effort at protection, finally dug up the facts of the cor
ruption. The size of the campaign gift is not in itself damning,
if it is ooen and above board and without ulterior motive. It
is the purpose of the contribution that governs. If it is
made m the expectation ot being repaid, eiiner uy corrup
tion or privilege, it becomes baneful.
The Renublicans cannot escape moral responsibility
for the corruption of the Harding administration, including
the deals of the Ohio gang and the oil scandals. They were
m power, the culprits were Republican ottice homers, inc
Democrats, not being In power, cannot be involved.
Too Much for the Turf
Harry Sinclair and his stables have been barred from
the three race tracks of Maryland as a siirn of public protest
against his course as a malefactor of great wealth. It is the
lirst eitort at social ostrachism, evoked because or ma suc
cess in exploiting to the fullest the laws delay in efforts to
avoid penalty for his crimes.
The race track has always been known as a crooked
came. In Jute vears. strenuous efforts have been made to
clean house and make it straight. It goes without saying
that a man who would corrupt his own government, would
not hesitate to corrupt the race course to win for his stables.
Therefore to insure honest races and keep the sport popular,
the crooked horseman must be barred.
It is to be regretted that no such sense of public decency
actuates the oil industry, which unanimously reelects Sin
clair as director of the National Petroleum Institute and
Stewart, his fellow conspirator, chairman of the board of the
Standard oil, presumably as rewards of merit. The racing
game is on a higher moral piano than the oil industry.
Golden Youth
Ily I.AIRi: POMKItOk
CHAPTER 17
There was no denying Jack Tlf
f ally's cleverness. In the car which
ho "borrowed irom his host, he
v was enjoying the company of Jerry
"... Haines find because he was a sym
; pathetic listener, he learned Irom
her that she was soon to be an
heiress. Not that there was any
thing particularly clever in this dis
covery, because Jerry was keeping
the news of her exiwcted legacy any-
' thing but ft secret, It was something
for her to hold over the heads of
the other bIiIs In Her set; garo her
a seme ot superiority ana import
mice which wiu food and drink Tor
Jerry Haines. The money itself
meant nothing to her. Money was
merely something which was neces
sary to buy things witn.
No. Jack Tiffany was -lever for
another reason. Ho did not know,
of course, about Jerry's bet with her
friend. Bee. He did not know that
Jerry had wagered she would be
Mrs. Tiffany before the month was
ended. And It looked now, to jerry,
as though she were going to lose
that bet ... .
Listen to Jack Tiffany's words to
her this sunshiny afternoon: j
"1 like you because you don't i
possess the avid eye of the luisband
hunter."
Jerry started.
"What?" she gasped,
"You're such n regular little fel
low," he explained. "Von don't have
that look of sweet solicitude In vour
eyes which most women put there.
That tendir look of a guardian
aiel that dims for one's sweet sake,
and all that kind of piffle."
"Haven't I?" Jerry was deeply In
terested. "No," ho replied. "For years I've
beeD hinting at parties and lunch
eons and dinners sweet young things
who simper ot me, and then they
become languidly elus.ve and care
fully drop hints about their own
virtues and generally extoll praises
of mino. They must think a man
Is an awful fool If they think ho Is
deceived by theso sudden changes
from a modest violet tc a flaring
rose, and vice versa."
"Oh, yes?" Jerry was perplexed.
Was he tolling her all this Just by
way of warning her?
"Men are better proposers than
women and thev like to nmctiro
their art once in a while," went on
the fellow. "Women srldom civo
them the chant nowadays. Their
methods of angling are frightfully i
crude." i
"Are ttiay?"-.- I
"Indeed they are," he said, warm-1
ingiiig to the subject. "Of course.:
we can cut out the woman who re-1
lies entirely upon her sex appeal.
Women tike, what's her name the
blonde?" He turned an Inquiring eye
upon the girl.
"Mona French?" Jerry supplied
quickly.
"Yes. she's the one I mean." Tif
fany was aware of Jerry's sudden
change of demearor; like a little
turtle withdrawing within its shell.
Tiffany knew how young girls felt
about something that was hard to
"get." She might be a wee bit angry
at him for a while; plq'.ie.l was a
better word, but she'd get over It
and all would work out to nls ad
vantage. "What about her?" asker Jerry a
little breathlessly.
"Oh, the woman who depends
solely upon tier sex appeal is mere
ly a dangerous form of Bolshevik
who ought to be locked up, like
any other anarchist who Is in pos
session of weapons over which she
has no control."
Jerry liked this. It; delighted her
and she hoped to goodness she could
remember it. How she would love to
spring it on Todd I
"You sound like a womanhater,"
she told him with a giggle. "Oosh,
I didn't know you disliked us so.
You've kept it pretty well hidden
up until now."
"Oh. no, Jerry," Tiffany assured
her hastily. "I'm not om of those
tiresome fogies who go about bleat
ing ot their abhorrence of all things
feminine. You know better than
than. But one thing sure," he add
ed, with a downward glance to see
how she was taking it, "I'm not
the marrying kind."
Jerry started again. This was hit
ting pretty close to home.
"Confirmed bachelor and all that
sort of thing, eh?' sne said lightly.'
"Well, why not?" he wasted to
know, 'Marriage kiiia sooiethiug Lri
every man and woman who w&fc
into it. It kills the poetry of life. Try
to find any poetry in marriage if
you can. For a little while, maybe,
and then the lyric falters, the
rhymes become out ol rhythm and
thel lilting sweep of song dwindles
into dreary prose."
"Golly I" Cried Jerry, "you cer
tainly can tell It! Say soma more
and puncture a couple more illu
sions for me."
"I wouldn't tell you this if you
weren't a pretty inteli. ent girl,",
said Tiffany. "You are and you
know it. You're not like the usual
run of flappers that trail around
the place, cluttering up the world."
"Thanks," she salt dryly,
"And being intelligent, how can
any intelligent man pr woman ex
pect two highly-stigg entirely in
dividual natures to sWle down, bal
ancing their lives on a precarious
precipice called sentimentally, ' give
and take' I'm not deceived. The
glory dies, and a bewildered, mad
night of enchantment turns into a
sordid dawn ..."
They were silent. Jerry had some
thing to think about, now. This was
a ntw problem for her. Wis she
was, wise as Pi. her g aeration is
bound to be, but for r" that, her
quick little brain was quite as full
of romantic ideas e - her grand
mother's was. Jack Tiffany had
seemed to her all that . romantic
and thrilling to her girlish heart.
Now she found in him the unat
tainable and she wa? spuired into
an intense desire to make him
change his opinions.
Jack Tiffany sat bpside her, quite
satisfied with his day's work. When
the time came he knew she would
be his for the taking. The romance
o it. In one fell swoop he would
tell her he loved her more than his
needom that he must have her lor
his wile.
Yes. Mdeed, there a no denying
Jack Tiffany's cleverness! .
(To Be Continued.) ,
Girls Regard Leap
Year Seriously In
Washington Town
Kennewlck, Wash, Women in
this small town have taken leap
year propaganda seriously and as a
result the newly-organized bache
lors' club is faced with extinction.
Outnumbered by a good margin,
the eligible young men of the city
organized a club to forestall any
efforts of the feminine folk to pro
pose marriage during the year.
But the young women of the1 vil
lage have been so insistent since the
leap year was ushered in that many
of the club members have given up
all hope of being able to stay away
from the altar for another nine
months.
During one week, the members
said, they received so many tele
phone calls from young women who
refused to reveal then identities and'
who asked for "blind dates" that
several of the men contemplated
quitting the city.
In one case, it was said, an eligible
member received a proposal of mar
riage from a woman who stated she
had a good job and also an automobile.
Drunkenness Is no excuse for
crime unless it is definitely proven
that the accused's mind was so ut
terly and completely influenced by
alcohol that he could not form a
criminal Intention, according to
Lord Howart, Lord Chief Justice
of Engalnd.
NNSYLVANIA
MEMORIALS IN
FRENCH FIELDS
PhiladelpM: (P)Three memor
ials to Pennsylvania croops in the
World war will be dedicated May
29 and 30 in France at points where
sons of the state most distinguished
themselves in encounters of the
American and allied offensives.
The monuments of the common
wealth of Pennsylvania- a drinking
fountain, a large colonnade and a
bri ageare to be paid for out of a
$300,000 appropriation by the legis
lature. They are in the course of
completion on sites chosen by the
Pennsylvania state battle monu
ments commission, which approved
the designs and is supervising the
erection.
One memorial, a beautiful colon
nade costing $175,000, has been built
at Varennes on a hilltop which was
hotly contested by the Pennsylvania
forces if the American expedition
ary fortes and the enemy in the
Meuse-Argonne drive of late Sep
tember, HUB. ij stands as a tribute
to all Pennsylvania soldiers who
participated in the war.
In the memorial to the Twenty
eighth Division, "Pennsylvania's
Own," the commission has given
France a structure as useful as it
Is ornamental a bridge connecting
Fismes and Fismette across the
Vesle River, It replaces a span de
stroyed in the fighting.
The third monument, a drinking
fountain, has been erected at Nan
tillois in memory of the Eightieth
Division, comprised In part of Penn
sylvanians. Two other memorials, one to the
Seventy-ulnlh Division at Wontfau
con and another to the Fifty-third
field artillery brigade, at Audenard,
Belgium, have been heik up by the
national battle momuments com
mission, which selected the sites
for national memorials. They are
to be erected later elsewhere.
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