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PAGE FOUR Capitaljjournal Salem. Oregon Established Mirth !, ISM La Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 134 8. Commercial street. Telephone 01. Newt 83 OEOROE PUTNAM. SUBSCRIPTION BATES By carrier 10 cent ft week; 48 cents a month; 19.00 ft year la advance. By mall In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month 60 cents; I months 11.15: t months $2-25; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 80 cents ft month; s months $3.75; $5.00 a year In advance. FPU, LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively f all news dispatches credited to It or and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friendt or fott I tketch your world exactly a it goes." Byron Emphasizes the Issue The reports of the Wickersham commission, collective and individual, showing discrepencies between the general findings and the sepcrate reports of the commissioners tonfirm the rumor that President Hoover persuaded the fommission to abandon at the last moment a tentative recommendation for the Immediate revision of the 18th Amendment and declare against repeal. All of the individual reports refer to modification of the 18th Amendment as suggested by the commission, yet this recommendation was deleted in the report as presented. The Wickersham report is then, not the honest conclusions of the commission, but what Mr. Hoover desired his appointees to say, a position emphasized in his letter of transmission to Congress. The general report Itself denounces conditions obtain ing under prohibition and declares enforcement a failure. Seven of the eleven commissioners declare individually for a constitutional change that would permit restoration of liquor traffic in localities desiring it. Judge Kenyon, the most ar dent dry on the commission urges a congressional investiga tion and declares that evidence of prohibition corruption "is so startling that it is difficult to believe" and that in the days of the saloon "corruption was not so widespread and flagrant as it now is, it had not become such an established art and racketeering was unknown." But Mr. Hoover ig nores these reports and continues to strive for the unattain able. The net result of the Wickersham report I3 to force the prohibition issue deeper into national politics, with the prob ability of its becoming the dominant issue in next year's presidential campaign, with the Republican party, as long as it accepts Mr. Hoover's leadership, definitely committed to the dry cause. Senator Borah's suggestion that the report should be shelved and a national referendum taken on repeal is a sens ible one and would definitely settle the issue. Failing in that, the presidential election, complicated though It be by partisanship, local and national issues, will resolve itself into a partial and unsatisfactory referendum on prohibition. Irrigation in Oregon The 1930 census of irrigation for Oregon and Its coun ties, with comparative data from the 1920 census shows that in 12 counties listed there is less land under irrigation now than a decade ago, and in 12 counties an increase in watered acreage, while in the unlisted seven counties there is a de frease, The number of acres under irrigation now is 937, 0G8 as against 986,102 in 1920 ,a shrinkage of 5 percent or 49,05-1 acres. The decade witnessed the beginning of irrigation in the Willamette valley. Ten years ago the acreage was negligi ble. Today there are 566 acres under irrigation in Clacka mas, 1144 acres in Lane, 1475 acres in Marion, 635 in Polk. Summaries for Linn, Yamhill and Washington are not given. In all probability the watered acreage in the valley will be greatly increased in the next census. The shrinkage in irrigation acreage is mainly In eastern and central Oreiron. due to the bankruptcy of irrigation pro jects. : Baker has lost 30 percent, Crook 16.8 percent, Des chutes 16.1 percent, liiinam oi.o percent, ihko cj peicem, Malheur 9.6 percent, Umatilla 28.7 percent, Union 27.6 per cent, Wallowa 18 percent and Wheeler 15 percent. The greatest gain in watered acreage has been in Kla th 72.2 nereent. Jackson with 67.7 percent. Jeffer son with 56.8 percent, Josephine with 30.7 percent and Morrow with 18.6 percent. The acreage enterprises ahr.ink from 1.344.046 acres cent. The irrigable acreage in enterprise has fallen off from 1,925,987 acres to 1.531,232 acres, or 20.5 percent, due to elimination of unsuitable lands Waste and This U National Thrift Week and all over the country luncheon and service clubs, which for the past few weeks nave ecnoea 10 appeals io spenu miiui-.v m-nj i ""j as the sure nnd safe way to create prosperity, are re- mi!nr with invocations to save as the tried and proven path to prosperity. Despite the apparent contradictions of the two gospels, few of the listeners will sec the humor of the situation. As a matter of fact, the advocates of both spending or waste and those of saving or thrift are right, for both at tain the ends sought. Spending onoritv and thrift the oriirin The wasters create prosperity by buying what they do not need and keeping their money in circulation. They keep lio wheels of industry runnine e r busy to feed them. The savers on the other hand, in re fusing to waste slow down the wheels of industry in assuring their own salvation. If everyone bought only what was actually needed, half of our. Industries would go out of business and the other half be crippled. Imagine what would happen to the automobile, the radio, the tobacco, the candy, the chewing gum and a thousand other industries if people confined themselves to purchasing only essentials! This is happening now, and we see the results so calamitous to the business world. And at the same time we see the advantages of thrift to the indi vidual who safely, by the aid of his savings, rides the waves ef depression. There is of course a happy mean between waste and penury but it is seldom stressed. MRS. BROWN IMPROVK9 Waconda Mrs. George Brown has been very HI and under the care ol ft physician at her home east ol Waconda. Although still confined to her bed. reports are that she is lowly Improving. Klnsrwood Mr. and Mrs. John A. Yantiss ot Cascade Drtvw were week end house guests at the home ot friends. Mr. and Mrs. Greene at Albany, visiting Miss Bertha click, secretary of the state grange, before returning. Editor and Publisher entitled to the u&e for publication not otherwise credited In this paper were capable of Irrigating has to 1.188.920 acres or 11.5 per included in project areas. Thrift is the source 01 communis of individual prosperity. to supply them and the farm- Silverton Walter Goi!erud, 13-year-old son ol Mr. and Mrs. John Ooplerud of the Brush Creek dis trict, was Ul ttm week and unable to attend school. SURFACE BURNS To sTirrrr the lorrnets at mc. and hasten tbo healing, quickly apply Resinol THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTO RICO MAY DEBATELOCALS Debaten wnoni ha men at Wll- lavmetia will hsvs ft tun season ac cording to th achadul announced Tuesday by Lara Nelson, men a de bate manager. Questions to be used are: "Re solved, That the expansion of the chain store la detrimental to the bast Interests of the American people" and "Resolved, That the nations of the world should adopt a policy of free trade." One ten tative meet Is scheduled with the University of Porto Rico on the prohibition question. The only tentative debate other Amos and Andy Discuss Intangibles Tax By W. A. DELZELL Andy (Talking to himself) 'Five thousand, six thousand, seven thou Amos "What Is you done been doln wtd dat pencil Andy, yowe been flggerin an talkln to you self roh mos an hour?" AndyTee compulatln my re funds of untangled bills tax." Amos "You Is compulatln which?" Andy "Amos, you Is been so Ig norant of de A.B.C.'c of flnanee dat hit alnt no use tryln to 'splaln to you de mysteries of de Oregon tax system Dat's only onderstandable by men like me an Mister Chap man. Even de Tax Commission gits puzzled sometimes." Amos "Well whut I wants to know Is huccom youatl Is wearin out dat pencil a flggerln. You all aint got no refunds com In, Is you? How you goln to git any of dat money?" Andy "Amos, De legislature Is a pa.vin a law to give back $850,0110 of untangleduills tax Dat's whut I Is flBRerln on nettin soma of." Amos ' Who's goln to get dat money Andy?" Andy "Dem A3 paid It In befoh de law was onconstltushunold by de Co't." Amos "Well Is you name done been writ on dat list Andy?" Andy "Amos etTen dey was a raw oyster a laytn here on a saucer it would look Intelligent longslde of you. Dls yere bill dey Is a passln says It Is all goln to be secret re fundsnobody's goln to know nuf fin '. about who gits It or how much ceptln dem as pays It out, and dey ! is all sworn tighter dan us brud-. ders of the Mystic Knights of the Sea to neveah tell nobody, not even OreEonlan reporter. An effen dey does even whisper a word, syl lable or ilfTL'er of It, dey can be lined an put in de Jail and moved out of of (is and have der testaments taken away so dey Is disqualified foh five years from running foil off Is on de republican ticket." Amos "Dat's auah, some penalty alnt it. But hit takes a lot to keep politician's mouf shut don't It?" Andy "Yes. dat Is a heavier pen alty dan bein a treasoncr like Benny Dick Arnold was beroh de Civil Wah." Amos "But huccome dey has to keep It all so secret Andy? It's Just taxes bein give back to dem as paid It In alnt It" Andy "Yes but look who dey Is goln to pay It to. Dem untangled bills taxpayers Is quality folks dey alnt no po' white trash niongst dem. Dey don't fool roun wld common farmers an property tax payers. Dey don't own nuffin but untangledbllls effen dey can help It." Amos "Whut youall mean bout ownln dfffernt kinds of property, Andy? Alnt we all taxed de same black and white, and po folks and rich folks all alike In dls lan whut Abraham Lincoln don glv us and de republican party?" Andy "Amos effen you'll shut dat big mouf an llssen I'se gwlne to elucidate you on Oregon taxation. Now dcy'a three kind of property folks kin own. Dey Is lands, dat's real estate; dey Is removables like cars and umbrellas and diamond stickpins and horsns and cattle, dem Is called chattels; and dcre Is stocks and bonds and notes dat a man kin hide. In his safety boxes nnd kase you cant see 'em or feci 'em or hau l 'em dey Is called 'uutanvcled bllls'. Dis las kind la whut de rich folks like best and das whut dls secret blzness Is all about. A fool nlfcr an po' white trash dnt own- Charles R. Archerd Implement Co.'s Stock of FAKM IMPLEMENTS, CREAM SEPARATORS, Fencing, Dairy Supplies is now being: sold at wonderful low prices at 319 NORTH COMMERCIAL STREET Salem, Oregon This wu one of th largest and complete stocks of farm m.-uhincry in tho valley, and at tha low price at which every article is being sold should in terest every farmer and dairyman tn the country. CAPITAL JOURNAL. than that with Porto Rico la with tha University of Waahlugton. The; complete schedule follows: Feb. 10. duel with Oregon State: college on the chain store. I Feb. It, University of Oregon frekhmen la Balem on free trade.1 Feb. 2, dud with Oregon on the chain store. Feb. JT, University of Washing ton on free trade to be held in the Wood burn high school. March 11. University of Porto Rico In Salem on prohibition. March 19. Whitman college here on the chain store. April J, College of the Pacific freshmen hero on free trade. April 4, University of Arizona here on the chain store. So much good material has shown up In the freshman class this year that Coach R. E. Ralie has divided his squad so that freshmen will debate free trade, and the upper classmen the chain store question. land has to pay his taxes outloud, but de quality folks dat owns un tangledbllls dey kin pay In secret and git it back In secret too effen de Cote's onconstltushunals de law. Amos "But Andy dat alnt fair foh de farmers and de folks whut owns horses and chickens and um brellas an taxicabs to have to pay taxes all In daylight where every one kin see how much dey Is worth and den de quality folks pay In de dark wtdout nobody know In effen dey pays dere shore or not. Hit don't look to me like my party would stan for dat kind of foolish ness Hit alnt de way Abraham Lincoln or Teddy would do it." Andy "You fool nigger. Don't you know Abraham haa been daid foh nlsh onto seventy yeahs. Folks kin forget a heap in d:.t time. Man namesake Andy Mellon Is nettin de example now foh ouah party. Dey aint nobody knows as much about refundin taxes as Uncle Andy less en It's Congressman Hawley. Dey makes date dere principal binness and Ha Icy has got so expert he kin do It all by himself when Uncle Andy Is out golfin." 2 KILLED WHEN HIJACKERS PICK WRONG VICTIM Long Beach, Cal. IP Two men m'ere dead Wednesday and a third was In a critical condition follow ing a gun battle between Carlyle Lord, 59, Walterla resident, and three men whom police believed to be hijackers who picked the wrong victim. Lord was shot to death as he came to the defense of his home and his guests, but before he died he killed one of the Intruders and seriously Injured a second. Lord was playing cards with his daughter, his son-in-law, Paul Las sen, and a neighbor, Harlow Huf flne, when three men forced their way Into the house. "Does Otto live here?" one man demanded. Informed that he did not, the man whipped out a gun and forced the quartet to line up against the wall. Lord made a break for his bedroom where he secured a gun. He started firing as he reentered the room, and one man dropped. The second was wounded before Lord was shot by the first, and the third man. In the confusion, took his Injured companion to ft wait ing automobile and fled. Long Beach police a short time later arrested R. R. Brown, 40, and held him m the police hospital on suspicion of assault. He was de clared to have but a slim chance to live. Brown told police he was wounded when held up. Charles Moe, nho was said to have taken Brown to ft physician's office, also was held for investigation. The dead man had not been Identified Wednesday. MRS. WILL HOME Grand Island Mrs. Louis Will and two-montlis-old daughter, Bar bara Joy, returned home Monday rom the McMlnnville hospital where the Infant had received treatments for In f tarnation of her right eye. Occasional treatments will be con tinued for a time SALEM. OREGON' PETITION FOR COUNTY ROAD IMPROVEMENTS Henry Tautfest, well known rest- dent of the nortn and of the eounty. appeared before the county court Wednesday la regard to securing improvement on a road ft mile south of Butte villa wliich was opened up about three or four years ago but only nartlallr completed. He de sired to have the road finished If possible. Some of the right of way passe over some canyons and there Is some narrow road which neede changes and Improvement. The court advised Tautfest that under present plans the court coo- templates Improvement of the Buttevllle-Champoeg road before going ahead and finishing the road maintained by Mr. Tautfest. There is about ft mile ot work on the Buttevllle-Champoeg road, stated Commissioner Smith which noeds Improvement and one steep hill. It Is likely, unless some change Is made In the condition of funds, ttiat coming season, although the court has not defmltety passed on the matter. County Roadie aster Johnron Tuesday afternoon visited the scene of work which has been &Mng on on the Crolsan road up the creek about two miles from the pavement on Riverside drive. Blasting has been going on there to work out some big rock and mace ft ditch which will carry away surplus water that has made the section of the road dangerous In freering weather and It la believed the work now nearly finUhed will turn the trick. Johnson said the work has progres sed verv satisfactorily there. Tom Galloway of Ladd Ac Bush bank also appeared before the court and reported a bad condition on an "S" hill on the pavement of the Rosed ale road a mile south of Lib erty. Reports also have been pre viously made by others In regard to this hill. Galloway stated that the absence of shoulder on the hill created a dangerous condition so In wet weather when the pave ment Is very slippery tractiun Is bad nnd It Is almost Impossible to control a car. He stated that recently his car turned around on him on the hill and it was only good fortune which caused It to back end Into a friendly drive after the car had slid bark down the hill a considerable distance. Members of the court will look over the sit uation and probably take steps to make It safer. Road patrolmen also are now coming into the court dally to dis cuss the next season's work and get their certificates of appoint ment. Theodore Fisher of No. 63 near Victor Point, reported roads In good shape in his district. Fred Loske, who was In from No. 15 4 toward Sliver Falls west of the creek, also was In lining up district work for the coming season. Philip Fisher, county bridge man, dropped In from Victor Point. His crew Is Idle now and he has been installing a new dam on his farm to bring In domestic water from a sprint;. He was here to secure a filing on the water. Sidney L. O. Marlatt had the mis for tun eof running a knife In his leg while butchering a calf this we'k. Eat Everything without Fear of Indigestion Are there lots ot foods yon can't dat for fear of gas,, bloating, pains in the stomach and bowels ? Do yon have to pass up favorite dishes while the rest enjoy thcmT That's a sign you need Tanlsc! For more than 10 years Tarda c has restored to vigorous health thou sands who denied themselves their favorite foods just as you have to. Mrs. Arvena Bowers, of 1230 Jackson St, Topcka, Kans., says: "Five years I was troubled with (ras, bloating- and dizzy spells. But Tanlac toned up my whole system and increased my weight 10 lbs." If you suffer from indigestion, pas, dizziness, headaches, constipa tion or torpid liver give Tanlac a chance to help you! The first bot tle often brings tho needed relief. - Tanlac Is a rood, pure medicine, made of roots, barks, and herbs that are recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia. Get it from your druggist today. Your moncx back if it doesn't help you. PREMIUM DEFICIT OF FAIR COVERED IN BILL Payment ol aia.4oa.lt for prem iums offered by the slats lair Id ltM, for which Uiere were not suf ficient funds, Is asked In an appro priation measure by th Marlon county delegation In tha bouse of re preaenta tires. Previous appropria tions were Insufficient to meet the demand. The measure, H. B. No. 37, carries the emergency clause. SUPREME COURT HEARING CLARK DRY LAWAPPEAL Washington (LP) Prohibition was given the right of way In the su preme court Wednesday and funda mentals of the 18th amendment were concerned In argument of the government's appeal from the Ne wark federal court ruling that the amendment Is unconstitutional be cause Improperly ratified. While ft speedy decision by the supreme court was anticipated, there was much speculation as to the procedure It would follow. In accepting the appeal the court was forced to break a rule that has en dured for more than ft decade It has accepted Jurisdiction In ft case Involving the validity of the 18th amendment. Few believed that Judge William! Clarke who rendered the Newark devision would be sustained. Many thought the court would not even write an opinion giving the reasons for overruling him but wouM dis pose of the case within a week by a brief "per curiam" decision. In a "per curiam" decision the court would simply hand down ft terse finding that the appeal was overruled or sustained on the basis of past supreme court decisions. Others believed the court would write an opinion correcting what many consider a shortcoming In the so-called Rhode Island decision. In the Rhode Wand case, argued in the same marble chamber almost 11 years ago, there were four of the same Justices who were sitting Wed nesday. Five Justices who sat then have been replaced. Those remaining are Justice Oliv er Wendell Holmes. Louis D. Bran- dels. James C. McReynolds, and Wil lis van Dc vantcr. Van Devanter wrote tlie Rhode Island opinion sustaining the amendment and the Volstead act. Counsel for the New York lawyers who banded together several months sko to test the validity of the prohi bition amendment were relying on the contention of Judge Clark that only state conventions could pro perly adopt an amendment such as the 18th. This amendment, they contend, took rights from the peo ple and gave them to the federal government. They quote extensively from history and literature, as did JiKicre Clark. STOP BOBBY'S COUGH Before it Weakens Him to the Danger Point! Never take a child's cough lightly. You can't tell where It will end. Many a serious sickness has started with "Just ft cough." For a cough is not only distressing, but weakening as well At the first sign of a cough or chest soreness In old or young, always give good, dependable old "Plso's for Coughs." Plso's does the five things neces sary to stop a cough and repair the damage done. It checks the cough spasm, loosens the mucus, opens the air passages, soothes the Inflamed tissues, and at the same time, has a tonic value that tends to build up what the cough tears down. Only Plso's supplies these, five vital effects and it contains not opt la ten and docs not upset the stomach. Safe to give, even to bibles. All drugftlAU eell Pl- u iu aac una j-jc etzFB, vq sure you risk for "Plwf'w for Coiighn." ac!v warn WANTS TO KHOW Who benefits by pro hibition? What is the chance that the saloon will come back? How much of an out law is the liquor traffic? These questions and many others will be answered. Be Present WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931 SIX DIVORCES GRANTED BY HILL rirrull Judia Hill Tuesday af ternoon granted a grist of divorce decrees as follows: K. D. vs. Caroline P. Schmelts, married In Oregon City. In Febru ary. 1921. cruel and Inhuman treatment charged. The findings hold that the wife associated with a widower and falsely accused the husband of associating with another woman. 11m plaintiff Is Siren custody of two children. Ruth A. vs. Allan T. Porter, mar ried at Corvallls. In February. 1913. She claimed he struck her and of fered other means of harrasament. Sire was awarded custody of minor child and 20 a month sup Dort money. Orace vs. John P. Zak, Jr.. mar ried In Balem in April. 1929. Deser tion was charged. She Is restored her maiden name of Grace 6mlUi. Edith vs. O. W. Cooper, married at Vancouver, Wash.. In August. 1S2S. She alleged he, kicked her shins, used prolans epithets and offered othr lndliinltles. She Is QUICKEST WAY TO KNOCK AJJOLD Millions Say of Toil Proved Way You Fed Like a New Person Almost Before You Know It If you want quick relief from a cold, go back to first principles and use something you know does the busi ness don't start "trying" a lot of fancy Ideas or remedies. Even a "lit tle" cold Is too dangerous to take chances on. Get Hill's Cascara Quinine. A sci entific formula made to do ONE THING WELL: to knock a cold in a Jiffy, not to cure a hundred dif ferent tliin?s. Take two tablets now. Then fol low directions on box. Drink lots of water, too that's all. Soon those mean, aching pains In head and body begin to go; the cold breaks up; poisons leave your system. Al most before you know It, you feel like a new person. If It doesn't do that, your money back. Oet a box now. You'll be sur prised at the speed with which It works. Costs only a few cents, adv, fjff f cascara Quinine lllJLli J Compound HUNDREDS of people thi-nut: limit lh 1'nltffl , aint i fit in'. cstltiK in bulltllnjr. and lo.in Fn.noelatlonj In Ue croat ttela ef Orpgoa. MORTGAGE INVESTMENT COMPANY PfsBtroTlnit nt operittnsl the rjuu-ill.ui crimp nt tiultit!n and ltti) aHOJ&tloni li Otoq tM olfcrle,; Preferred Stock (9 $100 Per 7 OtMriuiloed nivhli-ndj PArable Ouarlrrly Alie Kid tn unlti ot Iahar no par rom. .11001 tKnJ. hrci prtlarred ..tlOOl 0WB lur Mrttal payment plea tt dttirvtl rrmtfrrl iteumrcf) nt the r.uMMUo group and the Wort IfivenrrnetH Co, more than a.juo,uoO, for further pvtkularfl phoo 1 AT S213, or iftut our name and I avuurtu to i f ortgage InvesimcBit C INVflTMfMT WAITMntT kGeiftSaft BuOAat, Ptfflwwl, OtVfea and Get Facts & awarded custody of a child. II. If. va. Leah Dung an, married at alias In November. 1SKJ6, It was found the defendant Is insane and confine dto the statst hospital and decree Is granted to permit him to better care for his Own affairs. 'ill', mi laic m 5"? IS! Mm mm mi 33 5 SSI UK p it S? 2. it " 3 2- H Is Prohibition Slip ping? What substitute can be offered for pro hibition? Do young people know what prohibi tion has saved us from? SUNDAY EVENING February 1, at The Armory 7:30 P. M. First-hand
