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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM." ORKCON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1328
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I sketch your world exactly as it goes."
Live up to Pledges
The county court, having previously pledged itself to
operation with the child health demonstration, is in no
position at this late day to repudiate their pledges, despite
the fact that the budget committee did not sanction the
promised expenditure at its initial sessions probably because
of lack of understanding. The court has ample authority
to include the amount. It is hardly fair to the people of the
county to withdraw supervision of public health and leave it
confined only to the cities.
It was upon the pledge of cooperation that Marion coun
ty was selected by the Commonwealth Fund for the demon
stration. "AH other parties to the compact have lived up to
their agreement and the county coui t cannot very well with
draw at this late day.
The extent of county cooperation was agreed upon long
ago. If a referendum bx the people was desired, it should
have been submitted at the November election. If the court
did not consider the expenditure in the interest of public
health, beneficial, they should not have made the agreement
in the first place.
Health work cost Marion county 4 cents per capita in
1928, and if the appropriation promised is allotted, will cost
13 cents in 1929. The difference has been made up by the
Commonwealth Fund. Even at the latter figure, health
work is being conducted at a far lower figure than in other
counties. We spend 25 cents per capita on police protection,
?3.12 on roads, 16 cents on livestock protection and 73 Vt
cents on indigents. Surely our children's health is worth as
much as that of our cows and pigs.
For Marion county to repudiate pledges would blacken
our favorable reputation throughout the country.
Belated Honors
The 25th anniversary of the first successful flight of a
heavier than air machine has been made the occasion for
paying belated tribute to Orville Wright and his disceased
brother, Wilbur Wright, who December 17, 1903 success
fully flew in a biplane of their own design at Kitty Hawk,
N. C. and so began the story of successful aviation.
Strange as it may seem, the epochal invention aroused
little attention at the time, fend the Wrights received but
scant recognition in their own country, and had to go abroad
for government cooperation, where France, Germany and
Britain supplied it. Though honors have been piled upon
aviators it was not until this week that the Flying Cross was
awarded them, 16 years after the death of Wilbur Wright.
The Wrights began their experiments in 1900 at Kitty
Hawk. On the barren sand dunes they tested all the theories
of flight, one by one, only to meet failure after two years of
patient effort, finding they were based on guesswork. Cast
ing aside theories, they put their machine through innum
erable gliding tests, changing, adding, modifying setting
down the results after each glide, developing at last a glider
wonderfully exact, which when fitted with a small motor.
built also by them made on December 17, 1903 a flight ot
59 seconds duration.
Invention, with its patient plodding, persistent labor
and intensive thinking is not spectacular, hence we pass-up
the men who create airships for the men who utilize them.
A Lindbergh, taking foolish risks in a useless flight, becomes
a world hero, but the men who made such flights possible are
ignored or only tardily recognized. Yet every inventor
who contributes his share to perfecting the flying machine,
does far mote for aviation than all the stunt fliers. But
few ever hear of them.
Drys Organize
Encouraged by the result of the recent election the
twenty-nine dry bodies of the country, hitherto active in
their seperate fields, have merged to form a federated Or
ganization, under the caption of "National Conference of
Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment."
The federation was completed recently at a Washing
ton conference and engineered under the leadership of the
Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U., the Methodist Board
of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, and those of
15 other churches, along with independent dry societies. It
is designed to concentrate influence and campaigning.
The dry federation plans to attack the liquor problem
along a broad front, from primary campaigns to Congress,
from personal abstinence to rigid law, enforcement laws, and
work for general "moral reforms" which include a variety
of subjects from blue laws to censorships.
The president of the super federation, the new dry czar,
is Dr. A. J. Barton of Atlanta, Ga. chairman of the execu
tive committee of the Anti-Saloon I-engue; who along with
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of Virginia aroused the southern
preachers against Governor Smith, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, W.
C. 'f. U. chief, and Dr. Clarence Tine Wilson of the Metho
dist Board are vice-presidents. All of which insures a per
petual agitation in favor of the "Noble Experiment." It
presages a day whei the $.'5004,00.000 enforcement fund
will not be turned down, but demanded and received lrom a
subservient Congress.
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John R. Love llatenlng to a new one told by Charlea Terry of
Atchison, Kan. 92 yeara old, the oldest traveling talesman on the
Job. Terry attended the National Traveling Saleimen'a Foundation
meeting In New York.
JOY STREET
By Claire Pomeroy
CHAPTER 55
Tills was a surprise. Howard
Weston 1 Gay read the note over
three or lour times and still she
couldn't believe It.
My dear Miss Hilton:" was the
way he began 1U The envelope
was addressed to "Miss Hathaway."
Gay pondered over this a
moment or two and then proceed
ed. .
'Seeing you has given me as
much surprise as this note will no
doubt give you. A pleasant sur
prise for me and a hope that I may
see you altvr the performance.
There are, as you probably are
aware, a number of things of Im
portance which I should like to tell
to you. And. may I congratulate
you?" . . .
Oh, she did want to sec him. If
only for the purpose of convincing
herself that her suspicions of the
man were untrue and without
foundation. He would explain
everything, she was certain. Then,
a doubt crept in. Perhaps this was
to be a climax. She had once be
lieved that Weston was playing
with her as a cat plays with a
mouse. When the time came, she
once told herself, he would come
for her and take her back to face
the accusations of the police who
naa suspected her 01 having a part
in the murder of Samuel Howells.
. . . What If this were all true,
after all? She knew It was Weston
who had been having her followed
and watched by the man in the gray
suit.
She dressed with careful deliber
ation. She had bought a new little
outfit of gray. A gray frock of flat
crepe, a gray cloth coat trimmed
with soft gray fur and thcij were
gray kid shoes and stockings and
gloves. A saucy little hat ot gray
felt which, in some manner that
was an art with the hatmaker.
came caressingly down ov-T one
cheek and a pearl pin was its only
ornament, . .
"Gee, you look smart as the
devil," said Gay's partner at the
dressing tabKf. "But, why the street
clothes? We're all wearing party
clothes tonight."
"Are you? Why?" asked Gav ab
sently.
"Why? For the party, of course."
"What party?" Gay Inquired.
"What party That's a good one,'1
laugh3d the girt. "Earl's party, of
course. Earl always throws a party
after an opening night. And howl
I wouldn't miss it for the world
not after what I've heard of some
PANAMA CANAL
ENLARGEMENT
RECOMMENDED
Washington (LP) Eventual en
largement of the Panama canal to
care for rapidly Increasing traffic
between the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans Is fore-shadowed In the re
port made public today of Governor
M. L. Walker of the Canal Zone to
Secretary of War Davis.
The canal earned Uncle Sam
net revenue ot 120,621314.83 in the
fiscal year ending June 30. lttia.
which is the period covered by the
report. Traffic and revenue broke
all previous records.
The growth of traffic," Walker
reported, "has brought to the Iront
considerations of the possibility of
its exceeding the capacity of the
canal, with the corollary of con
sidering ways by which the capaci
ty may Be Increased. Present traf
fic Is considered between 49 and
50 per cent of that which the canal
can handle as constructed at pres
ent. "The first move to provide for
future increases and to assure suf
ficient depth of water in the cut
and over the upper sills of the
locks has been begun in the de
velopment of a supplementary wa
ter supply. It Is believed that this,
with the eventual construction of
a 'third flight of locks, paralleling-)
tne present twin flights, will in
crease the present capacity of the
Canal by about 70 per cent."
In addition to the solution sug
gested by Walker, there now is be
fore the senate a resolution by Sen
ator Edge, republican, New Jersey,
which would provide for an Inves
tigation of the potentialities of a
second canal through Nicaragua.
The United States possesses the
right to build a Nicaraguan canal.
HOOVER VISITING NICARAGUA
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President-elect Hoover with President-elect IMoncada of Nica
ragua shortly after his arrival in Corlnto. Left to right: American
Minister Eve rh art, Mr. Hoover and Presidentelect Moncada. Mrt
Hoover stands behind.
or the others." The girl applied
rouge co ner nps and painted a
perfect cupid'a bow thereon. .
An expression of distaste flick
ered across Gay's face. '
"do we have to go?" she faltered.
"Well, we don't have to, but it's
a pretty good idea to be there."
answered the other girl. "And you
really ought to go. Gay. Markert
said Earl wanted to see you after
the show and that's as good as a
command.'
So. Gay penciled a note to How
ard Weston and sent a messenger
boy to the stage door to find him.
"C-jar Mr. Weston: So sorry I
can't see you tonight. Our pro
ducer is giving a party to the com
pany and it seems that I cannot
avoid going. Will you call me up
at my house tomorrow morning?"
She wrote the telephone number
and the address of Mrs. Morris' and
signed the note "Gay Hathaway."
"Ready, girls?"
Russel Markert pok?d a sleek red
head into the door.
"All set," replied the d a r It
haired girl cheerily. ;
"Gee, you look great, Gay." caid
Markert. "You look better than all
these bimbos dolled up in $30 eve
ning clothes.'
The little gray frock was smpro
enough to look well on any occa
sion. There was the suggestion 01
a basque about the bodice and the
skirt was full and flaring. !
Great idea. You know, Julia
Miller, the prima donna, never
wears evening dress to these pow,
wows either. It's only the under-:
lings who think they've got to make
a big flash." This was from Mark- j
ert again. The youth loved to dis- j
cuss clothes and be knew what he
was talking about, too. I
Ten minutes later they were ptl-!
ing into taxi cabs that carried them
to a private dining room in one of
Manhattan's smartest and most ex
pensive hotels .... On leaving
the theater. Gay did not notice
tall man who stood in the shadows,
although she was so close that he
could have touched the gray sleeve
of her coat.
And the tall man waited only
long enough to see the closing of
the door of the taxi into which
Gay had climbed before he jumped
into another taxi that awaited at
the curb. He gave the driver terse
instructions and away he went, in
the direction of the cab which was
carrying Gay to a new adventure.
(To be continued)
$300 FOR STOLEN CHICKEN'S
Whitwell, Term. VP) James Stev
enson, fanner, discovered a coopful
of fowls he had prepared for mar
ket had disappeared. But in his path
lay a pocketbook containing $300,
for which he found no claimant.
TOY PRODUCTION
ASSURES MERRY
XMAS MORNING
Washington (LW Christmas morn
ing the young American girl will b
fondling $10,000,000 worth of doll,
while the American small boy will
be preparing to wreck about 15,.
000,000 ot rolling-stock in the form
of toy automobiles, airplanes, wa
gons and trains.
American worship of Santa Claua
makes toy production one of the
country's typical big businesses.
susceptible of measurement in the
large round numbers which delight
the government scientist.
Production in the United States.
according to the last bureau of
census compilation available.
amounted to about $75,000,000 an
nually, of which dolls alone ac
counted for nearly $12,000,000, with
one and one-half million extra for
the miniature wardrobe, and nearly
$3,000,000 for her carriages and
carts.
The present year probably has
witnessed an increase in this production.
Ordinarily, the domestic toy mills
are Incapable of meeting the re
quirements of the American toy
trade, and there is a heavy annual
importation from Germany and
Japan.
NOT SUPERSTITIOUS
New Ispwicn, N. H. MV-Fishermen
hero are not superstltltous.
Fishing parties for horned pout,
conducted at midnight in two
ponds in a cemetery, aro not uncommon.
DUMB DORA
Positive Proof.
A bronze statue, "Lady With A
Dove." at Kinston. N. C. has been
brightened by a house painter's art.
The lady now has auburn hair, a
oiue gown, ana a more life-Ike
complexion.
National Klothiers
"America's Greatest Clothing Value."
ALL WOOL
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$33 !SD Vcs
AT ONLY ONE PRICE
NOTHING HIGHER
All the latest styles and fabric and made
to fit as only the best. We carry a complete
line of MEN'S FURNISHINGS.
Hftfisstal Klotliieaps
FACTORY TO WEARER
387 State Street
By Chirk Young.
We lonrn from Oregon Exchanges that Herbert L. Gill,
editor of the Woodburn Independent Is observing the semi
centennial of his entrance into journalism, having edited and
published newspapers continuously for 50 years. In this
time he has published 19 papers in five states, but settled
down at Woodburn 30 years ago and has since been the guid
ing genius of the Independent. To the felicitation Mr. Gill
is receiving, the Capital Journal adds its own for the Wood
burn Independent, is one of the best, perhaps the best small
town newspaper in the state. Well managed, well edited, it
completely fills its field and we wish it and its veteran editor,
continued prosperity and power.
Foremost among the special Christmas editions this
year, as customary for many past, is the well edited Portland
Spectator, which always makes up in quality what it lacks in
quantity. Attractively pottraying the lure of the scenic
beauties and wonders of all part of Oregon, it is a fine ex
ample of the printers art. It is replete with special articles
' on industrial and cultural activities by acknowledged au
thorities. It should constitute an effective appeal to distant
DeoDle who are eager to read and see what Oregon has to
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