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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931
Capital JtJournal
Salem, Oregon
Established March 1, 1808
An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday
at 130 a. commercial street, leiepnono 4U81. news 4883
GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher
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The Ubiquitous Frats .
Principal Fred Wolf of the Salem high school deserves
Commendation for efforts to stamp out illegal secret societies
in the student body. This is a problem which has worried
the board of education as well as school officials for years
and also been productive of much friction and discord among
the students.
The board is empowered, under the law, to expel or
suspend pupils who violate the law by joining the banned
organizations. Instead of resorting to this drastic penalty.
Principal Wolf correctly rules that secret society members
are ineligible to serve as officials of the student body and
deleted their names as candidates. The law reads as follows:
Oregon Codc-35-3504-5 Secret societies prohibited Secret societies
of every kind and character, including fraternities and sororities, so
called, which may now or hereafter exist among the pupils of any of the
public schools of this state, including high schools, either local or county
are hereby declared unlawful. It Is hereby made the duty of each school
board to suppress all secret societies and for this purpose such
boards are hereby authorized to suspend or expel from school. In their
discretion, all pupils who engage in the organization or maink'nance of
such societies.
The law was enacted because secret societies are pro
ductive of class consciousness, snobbishness and snippish
ness, as well as detracting from the main purpose of schools,
the securing of an education. They are bad enough in col
leges, where the adult student has a truer conception of the
values of life, but are a recognized nuisance in high and
grade schools where the student mind is immature.
The total enrollment at the high school is l.'i98, with an
average daily attendance the past month of 1178. The prin
cipal estimates that there are between 115 and 130 secret
society members in seven groups of from 8 to 25 members
each. They form an .organized minority, a compact bloc,
in school affairs, and hence are frequently able to dictate to
the unorganized majority, and dominate the student body.
For the continued existence of these clandestine organiza
tions, the parents are to blame for their encouragement and
connivance of law breaking.
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Preside At Convention Breakfast
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Mn. Bene Oould (right) membership and emblem chairman, and
Miss Ellen Rodnas (left) extension chairman, for the state federation of
Buslnew and Professional Women's clubs, who will be prominently fea
tured during- the emblem breakfast arranged for Sunday morning. May
24, as a part of the state convention to be held here May 22, 23 and 24.
Mrs. Gould will be in charge of the emblem ceremony at the breakfast,
and Miss Rudnas will preside. Miss Rudnas Is a member of the Marsh
field club and Mrs. Gould is from the Coquille club.
Editor And Politician
Victims Gunman Who
Eludes Police-officers
Los Angeles (IP) Circumstances involved in publication
of a small magazine devoted to "exposes" of gambling and
graft furnished detectives their main clues Thursday to the
killing or the editor, Herbert F.
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The Chain Store Tax
The Indiana chain store tax law, passed in 1029 imiosiiig
heavy license fees on chain stores, hag been sustained by the
United States supreme court. Similar laws have been pro
posed in many other states including Oregon, imposed by a
few, and the North Carolina statute is now before the court
for a decision on its validity.
i The Indiana law was designed to raise money for the
state aid school fund, and it is estimated will produce ap
proximately $500,000 annually. It imposes a fee of $3 when
one store is operated; $10 for each additional store when
from two to five are operated under a single ownership; $15
on each from five to ten, $20 on each from ten to twenty
and $25 for each in addition to twenty.
! Lacking the opinion of the court, it is not known on what
I grounds the decision was based, though it would seem to the
i layman that it is class legislation, pure and simple, a distinct
; and unjustifiable unconstitutional discrimination. It is pun
i itive legislation designed to overcome the economic advant
i age of chain operation.
We hold no brief for the chain stores, they have their
. evils as well as their merits and seem amply able to take care
of themselves. They have their weaknesses as all standard
ized business run by long distance red tape has, as well as
their strength. The best way to meet such competition Is by
adoption of their methods by independents, of cooperative
mass buying, systematized selling and of advertising. The
wide awake merchant who modernizes his business along
these lines, has nothing to fear from chain stores but has an
advantage over them in being on the spot and unhampered
in his tactics.
It is perhaps a symptom of our growing paternalism
that so many look to the government for aid and special laws
to penalize competition instead of developing their own in
genuity, resourcefulness and originality to solve problems
resulting from their own inefficiency. Business, after all,
is a survival of the fit.
Discreditable Probes
; Two investigations by the senate campaign fund com-
mittee are properly under suspicion, especially as tho inquisi-
tors have gone so far as to attempt to set aside the rights of
1 the states and seize ballot boxes over the protest of state au-
thoritii's, even to demanding the federal courts assume jur-
isdictinn and bring the ballot boxes to Washington for a
recount. These cases are the current inquiries into the elec
tion of two new members of the senate, Senator Uunkhcnd of
Alabama and Senator Bailey of North Carolina.
Senator Bankhead was elected by a majority of 50,000
over Senator Hcflin, who charges fraud and the committee
: is taking his charges so seriously that it Is making a rigid
J investigation. Senator Bailey was elected by a majority of
! 113,000. If tho elections had been at all close and the ma-
jorities small, there might be some reasonable grounds for
j suspicion, but their size precludes it.
i The motive back of these inquiries seems to be purely
i political. If Bankhead and Bailey can bo prevented, on any
i sort of pretext, from taking their seats before the senato is
S organized, the Democrats will be deprived of two votes.
which will enable the Republicans to organize the senate and
' seize all the committee chairmanships for the next two
. years. Theoretically the Republicans have a majority of
i one, but no one knows how far they can rely on the votes of
' Norris, LaFollette, Brookhart and Shipstead. elimination of
two Democrats helps solve the problem,
i Tho committee has already established the precedent
of asserting the right of the senate to go behind the returns
; in an effort to control state elections, which alone will go far
: towards discrediting senatorial investigations. If fraud is
I not proven, and there is no indication of it yet, and these in-j
' vestigations prove merely trumped up charges to keep Dem
ocrats out of their seats for partisan advantage their dis
credit with the people will be complete. ;
Spencer, 45, and Charles H. Craw
ford, 52, political ligure, In Craw
ford's Hollywood office late Wed
nesday.
They were fatally shot by a nattt-
Iy attired, unidentified man who
had been closeted with them lor
about an hour. He escaped from a
side entrance.
Spencer, formerly veteran police
reporter and later city editor of tlie
Evening Express here, died shortly
alter the shooting.
Crawford died throe hours later,
refusing to name the killer, al
though previously he had Indicated
he might.
In recent Issues of the magazine,
the "Critic of Critics," 6pencer had
threatened to expose "the Al Ca
pone of Los Angeles." His widow
said Spencer's life had been threat
ened repeatedly by telephone. She
attribute -'the calls to an unnamed
"gambling bass" of the city.
Crawford, who for years wielded
a strong Influence in local politics,
was known as a patron of the mag
azine and was regarded as a finan
cial backer. He was said to have
furnished Spencer with "inside" In
formation for publication. Of late,
Crawford's political activities had
diminished.
Among those questioned Wednes
day night was Guy McAfee, wealthy
former policeman, raid by detec
tlves to be connected with gambl
ing enterprises. McAfee, who re
cently broke a political association
with Crawford, and later was at
tacked editorially in the magazine,
showed that he was In the hall of
Justice at the time of the killing,
police said. The sheriff's office also
lengthily questioned Joe Butcha,
until recently business manager for
Uie magazine. He said an unlden
titled man telephoned him shortly
after the shooting and said:
"Now that Crawford and Spen
cer have got theirs, you'U be next.
Buchta was questioned closely
about operations of the magazine,
which was owned by Spencer and
Frederick "Mike" Schlndler, former
newspaper associate. Silencer bought
half interest In the magazine
four montlu ago.
Schlndler said Spencer had gone
to Crawiorda office on Busy sun
set boulevard In Hollywood to pro
test what Schlndler described as
Crawford's recent "bragging that
he owned the crlllo of critics.
Spencer had not expected to meet
a third person at the olflce, Schlnd
ler said.
BUSINESS WOMEN
TO MEET FRIDAY
(Continued from pago 1
tion to order at 2 o'clock. The invo
cation will be Riven by Krv. B. Earle
Parker of thr First Methodist
church. Henry R. Crawford, presi
dent of the Salem chamber of com
merce, and Mrs. Mona R. Yoder,
president of the Salem business wo
men's club, will welcome the federa
tion to Salem. Appointment of con
vention committees, presentation,
and report of state officers and
special committees will be held Fri-
dny afternoon. Tlie, executive coun
cil business session will be resumed
nt a dinner In the silver grille at the
Gray lie lie.
A reception for nil convention
visitors and representatives of local
club nil be held Friday evening
at o o clock in the Masonic tern
pJe social room. Officers of the
stMf" f xVrnMnn and o' the Salem
To Relieve
Catarrhal Deafness
And Head Noises
If Toil hart rntfirrhftt rir fiiB nt
hrd noliws Ro to Capital Uru it on
ir UMir nruMatlflt. 111(1 fl 1 O. Ot
Psrmlnt iloatle 8trriui:h). and add
t.i It pint of hot wnifr, and a lit
tle Riwar Tke 1 tablespoon rut four
uuirs a amy.
'Pills will often hrln nttl-V fllf
from the dttrriilin heart nnl.ea
rioKHffl noatrllt aluMilrt open, breath
ing iMTome rft.v and the muoou atop
dropping i-iM tt.e throat It It eaav to.
prepiT. c.iata llttl- and I pletuxint
to Uke Anyone who has ratarrhal
deatneM or head nolne should give
tin tLrvpiiiu mai. aar.
club v. ill receive. Incidental music
will be offered by the Chemava In
dian school trio. Miss Lillian Scott
and the Salem Business and Profes
sional Women's club chorus.
MISS LONG TO SPEAK
Miss Harriet Long, state librarian,
will be the speaker at a vocational
breakfast to be held in the Marlon
hotel Saturday morning at 7:30 o'
clock. Miss Josephine Shade of
Salem, state education chairman,
will preside.
Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, will
extend official greetings from tlie
state at a '"Know-Your-Oregon"
luncheon to be held In the Masonic
temple Saturday noon. Each club
will present a short skit advertis
ing resources of their community.
Miss Dora N. Sexton of The Dalles,
state forward chairman, will pre
side. Charles F. Walker, president
of a Portland business college, will
speak. The local high school girls'
qirartet will sing.
Convention sessions Saturday
forenoon will feature half-hour
round table discussions by the dif
ferent club committees, and the
continuation of reports. Occupa
tional round tables, led by commit
tee chairmen, will occupy a 45-
mlnute period Saturday afternoon.
ELECTION SATURDAY j
Tlie annual election of officers
and the Invitation for the 1932 1
convention is slated for late Sat- j
urday afternoon. Auto trips about t
the valley have been planned lor
Saturday afternoon also.
Mrs. Jane Ogle of New York,
field secretary (or the national fed
eration of Business and Profession
al Women's clubs, will be the speak
er at tho state federation's anni
versary banquet Saturday night In
the Marion hotel. Miss Margaret
Fleming of Portland and Miss Ce
celia Mae Bey.er of Astoria, past
state presidents, will give the toasts.
President of the 22 clubs will give
three-minute talk on their club's
outstanding achievements during
the past year, and trophies for club
activities will be awarded. Music
will be by the Willamette univer
sity trumpeters, Mrs. Gladys Collins
of Independence, Prof. Cameron
Marshall of Salem, and the local
club's chorus. A midnight frolic at
tlie Elsinore theater, will be tender
ed the convention group by the
hostess club.
TO LOSE SUNDAY
The convention will close Sunday
morn Inn with an emblem breakfast
at Hiuel Green during which clubs
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heipiUK you net rid of uimigrttl? pots
and Hkin disensea thtiu anything
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Ita action la little lew than mag
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mm M-mr mii in m vrrv icw a.iys. ine
nine la true of biitbera' Itch, anlt
rheum nnrt other lrriUitlng and uu-
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ou cun chttilli Moone a Fnieruld
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touch of
SPRING
HAY FEVER!
Called Rom F.ver aometimel
caused by irritating pollen of i
graM and trees, t.yca ilch and
i mart, nose waters, you feel "low."
I'herk tho misery ia thirty tain
ilea with a dose ot Dr. Plait's
Kmc Prescription, or money bark.
No narcotics or habit-formine drugs :
a doctor'a rrescri-ition. in cap- ,
aulea, that has given relief to
thousands. At rood druggists, $1.00. 1
Til-nOM. fell In
iiiM-M.ini.tt.Mk.tiiM. a.- TrutV
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I'm. I . B.h.lM.1.
at Hood River and Heppner will be
initiated Into the state federation.
Dr. W. C. Kantner will speak. The
Salem club will atreslde at the em
blem ceremony, and the Portland
club's chorus will sing. William
Wright will be vocal soloist. The
incoming and retiring executive
councils will hold their post con
vention meeting Sunday morning at
11 o'clock.
Mrs. Madrlene CalUn, editor of
the state federation magazine, Miss
Josephine Shade, a state chairman,
and Mrs. Mona Yoder, president of
the Salem Business and Professional
Women's club, will vote In the con
vention by virtue of their offices.
Delegates from Salem club are
Helen Louise Crosby, Grace Eliza
beth Smith, Susan Vafty, Ruth
Moore, Irene Breithaupt, and La
Molne R. Clark. Their alternates, In
the order named, are Myrtle Gil
bert, Mable Needham, Winifred
Herrlck, Maud Poltner, Maud Pres
nall and Either Hagedorn.
INDEPENDENCE HAS
RESIDENCE BLAZE
Independence A fire broke out
about noon Wednesday at the M.
Aumspaugh place In North Inde
pendence and destroyed the entire
top story of the residence before
the fire could be gotten under con
trol. Mrs. Kleby, the housekeeper,
was putting out a family washing
on a back porch and did not know
there was a fire until the neigh
bors discovered it and put in an
alarm. They all turned out to help
save tlie family bedding, clothing
and furniture and every article was
carried to safety.
The dwelling that was burned Is
au old landmark being the former
home of "Grandma" Fischer, and Is
located on a part of the original
Thorps Town of Independence. The
house was partially covered by In
surance and the owner had been
remodeling the place and had more
lumber ordered to further the Im
provements.
Smedley' Pockets And
Traveling Bags Bulge
With Gifts From Meier
General Smedlcy D. Butler, famous guest of Oregon's
chief executive. Governor Julius L. Meier, will return east
Saturday night taking with him a large number of gifts pre
sented by the governor ana various
organizations over the state. Most
of the gifts wlU be presented to tlie
general before he leaves Portland.
although he has already enjoyed
some, Including the best of Willam
ette valley strawberries.
Late Wednesday the governor's
staff collected a basket of the best
home grown strawberries and pre
sented them to the general on his
way to Eugene, where Butler was
guest at dinner and again as speak
er at a breakfast dub there Thurs
day. "I never saw any larger or
better colored strawberries in my
life," the general said when he saw
the fruit.
The governor also presented the
marine general with an ash tray on
which reposed a miniature frog, of
ficial emblem of the governor's cam
paign in 1930. General Butler assur
ed the chief executive the ash tray
would occupy a prominent place on
his desk at West Chester, Penn.
Upon the receipt of these gifts, But
ler lauded Oregon's hospitality and
spoke feelingly of the reception he
had been given.
But other gifts will come the way
of the general before he leaves the
state. The Portland chamber ot
commerce, it was learned here, is
preparing a fine book of Oregon
scenes, to be presented to Butler
prior to his departure. The 6cenes
are being carefully selected and the
book Is being prepared by an artist.
Another gift, at the sugRcstlon of
Governor Meier, Is a light blue'
woolen blanket made in Oregon.
Sllverton Joe Staynor left Mon
day for Mapleton to assist Oscar
Storaasll in building bridges. Stora
asli has already been there 6cveral
weeks with a crew of men and will
Butler became attached to the blue be there several more weeks.
blanket In the office of Governor
Meier, and its equal will be pre
sented to him to take to Mrs. But
ler. The general's Itinerary Thursday
takes him to Corvallls for a short
visit after he leaves Eugene. From
Corvallls he will come to Salem
where he will discuss further with
tho state police committee and will
be the guest of Major General Geo.
A. White. He win return to Portland
later Thursday evening.
A pare of Friday will be devoted
to a trip down the Columbia river
in Oovernor Meier's 40-foot launch.
This will be followed by the final
police conference at the governor's
residence at Corbett. Saturday the
general will leave for Grants Pass
to attend the Rogue river bridge
dedication there, leaving immediate
ly afterward for Portland to catch
the train east.
MKS. HOBLITT HOME
Silverton Mrs. Mahlin Hoblilt
and five day old son. David Gail,
were taken to the Hoblitt home on
Adams street, Wednesday in the
Jack-Ekman ambulance from the
Silverton hospital. Mrs. Hoblitts
sister. Miss Gall of Los Angeles, is
visiting at the Hoblitt home and
will care for Mrs. Hoblitt and David
Qail.
ANNUAL TALENT
CONTESTS WILL
BE HELD FRIDAY
Tlie annual talent contest of the
Marlon county federation of com
munity clubs wUl be held at the
Wamer Bros. Elslnore theater Fri
day night. A feature of the enter
tainment this year will be the ap
pearance of the 45-piece University
of Oregon band, which wUl be
heard on the street during the af
ternoon and In front of the theater
in the evening. Elimination contests
were held last week-end to decide
the various district winners.
"Daybreak", new Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer
talkie, which will open
Thursday at the Warner Bros. E1-.
slnore theater, will present the
most be-uniformed star the motion
picture business has known.
Ramon Novarro, nero of ut. Ar
thur Schnitzler's gay lovs story of
Vienna before tlie war. has worn
the uniforms of more armies. It la
said, than any other actor of either
stage or screen.
When he appears as an amorous
lieutenant of His Majesty Guards
in "Daybreak" it will be but one of
nearly forty times that he has ap
peared In the guise of a soldier.
After city after city, tlie country
over, had conducted contests to find
a double for Nancy Carroll, the
girl who Is really the twin Image ot
the red-headed star of "Stolen
Heaven", the Warner Bros. Capitol
theater attraction Wednesday and
Thursday, was discovered In the
line of extras at the Paramount
New York studio during filming of
the star's latest success, "Stolen
Heaven."
Valsetz Mrs. William McDonald
has returned from a stay of several
days in Dallas where she Is having
flontnl work done.
the man's shop
special
bargain carniv
of gentlemen's E&misMmg goods
little can be said about this special selling event that i3
not explained more forcibly by the prices listed below,
and after all this is a time when price considerations
are of utmost importance.
this store has been ever alert to conditions and has con
sistently strengthened its reputation for competitive
prices on quality merchandise.
that goes for this event in particular and all others in
general.
we have a reputation to maintain and we have made it
well worth your while to help us do it.
shirts
$1.35
fine woven patterns, (no
cheap prints.) guaranteed
full rut, fast color, and
pre-shrunk.
pleated extra full cut
sleeves, seven button front
and the famous sta-rlte
reinforced collar.
trunks
45c
genuine rat dyed broad,
cloth, plain, fancy or strip,
ped patterns, seamless
seats for greater comfort,
three button yolk In front
and elastic band In back.
hose
20c
fancy pattern half host
values to (1.00 all
tl tens
20c
straw hats
$1.95
yes, this group is from last
season but comprises ex.
cellent styles In mllana,
and sennits selling regu
larly from $5 00 to 7.00.
linen knickers
$2.95
plain white or checked effects, full
cut plus sixes.
golf hose 95c
lightweight, soft, pure britisli wool
gjlf hose In newest plain pastel col
ors, ribbed effects, the same In lisle
including new diamond patterns.
sweaters $2-95
pure wool, sephyr weight, v-neck, pull
over sleeveless sweaters In the newest
pastel shades, p'.aln colors
arrow aoft collars broken
ljes. each
nirkwrar, odds and ends
1.00 tuaiittea
10c
45c
bathing suits
$1.95
pure worsted wool colum'ula knit and
other known makes In both one anil
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