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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1931)
PAGE F6UR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931 CapitaUjJournal Salem, Oregon established March 1, IMS An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 13a 8. commercial Street. Telephone 4681. News 4881 GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher . SUBSCRIPTION BATES By carrier 10 cento a week; 45 cents a month; $5.00 a year In advance By mail In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month SO cents; 3 nTontbs 1.25; 6 months $2. 25; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 60 centu a montn; s months 12.73; 15.00 a year In advance. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND TUB UNITED PRESS The Associated press I exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In thla paper and also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes 1 sketch your world exactly as it goes." Byron The Highway Squabble Highway Commissioner Spaulding last week sharply criticized Chairman Van Duzer for delay in the selection of a route for the proposed short cut route from Portland to the sea. Action had been delayed by the absence from the state of Commissioner Hanley, and Mr. Spaulding declared the chairman should send an airplane to bring him back. Mr, Epaulding expressed himself as being willing to approve both the Vernonia-Hamlet and the Wilson river routes. The en gineer's report had not yet been made. In reply Mr. Van Duzer stated the commission had formally agreed to construct a route to serve both commer cial and recreational interests and that the unemployment issue had been seized upon to force the issue but that before the expenditure of from 13,000,000 to $5,000,000 was au thorized, the commission must learn construction data on cost so that the road should be built to return the most for the money paid. He stated both governor and commission intended to do all possible to provide work for the unem ployed, not only in this section, but in all sections of the state. The engineer's report, made after Mr. Spaulding's out burst, recommends a "Y" system of roads to include both the Wilson river route and the Wolf Creek-Hamlet route, with construction costs estimated at $4,079,830. The report covers both the proposed Wolf Creek-Hamlet route and the proposed Scappoose-Vernonia route. Pointing out the ad Vantages offered by both of these routes W. D. Clarke, divi sion engineer for the department, expresses a strong preference for the Wolf Creek route because of its lesser construction costs and the fact that it lends itself to a "Y". combination with the Wilson river route to the south. Of course the commission, not the engineers, make the final decision, but action without the guidance of engineers would be folly. So it appears that Mr. Van Duzer has the best of the argument. It is hard to see anything gained by introducing discord into the commission's actions when har mony is essential. Meanwhile we cannot help wishing that Mr. Spaulding would show similar concern on speeding up the widening of the Pacific highway from Oregon Ctiy to Salem intq the major artery it should become. Left to the enigneers, only patchwork will be done, for they have their plans set for a new major highway in future years. The proposed widen ing with bitulithic shoulders will be entirely inadequate. Con crete shoulders should be added and the old roadbed be tween repaved with non-skid pavement. . This project is of far more importance to the people gf the valley than $4,000,000 short cut for recreational purposes from Portland to the sea t3 save week-end vacationists 15 minutes of time in transit. ' NOW FOR CONGRESS! i BIG BUSINESS GIRL COMING; ARLISS SCORES "Big Business Girl," a First Na tional picture starring Loretta Young, comes to the Warner Bros, theater Wednesday next for a run of two days. "Big Business Girt" Is ultra mod- thing and he was such a nice boy, It was just a shame they couldn't make a go of It. "But I guess," added the agent, who was a better sympathizer than a renting agent, "It's a tough Job trying to stay married In a one room apartment." To make a long story short, the bride-to-be repeated that remark on the way down In the elevator. She was quiet for a while after ward. Finally she said: "I won't take the chance. That place with the two rooms Isn't so nice. The apartment Isn't up to date. The address Isn't so good. But Im not going to make It a tough Job try ing to stay married." And ahe won't have at tough a Job staying married where there's an extra room In which one can get away from the other when the urge to be alone Is felt. era and at the same time Intensely human, with Just the proper sea soning of humor. It Is absorbingly entertaining and holds the suspense to the last fade-out. Loretta Young haa never been quite so wistfully charming as in the role of Claire Mclntyre who wins business sucess and finds It not so completely sat isfying as she bad expected. This clever romance of the mod ern business world Is based on the story of the same name, which was first widely read as a serial and later became a best selling novel. The authors of the piece are Pa tricia Retlley and H. N. Swanson. The screen adaptation Is by Robert Lord. William A. Belter directed. Miss Young Is supported by Prank Albertson, Rlcardo Cortes, Joan Blondell, Frank Darlon, Dorothy Christy. Mickey Bennett, Bobby Gordon, Nancy Dover. Virginia Bale and Oscar ApteL "Alexander Hamilton", the Warn er Bros, production starring George Arllss now at the Warner Bros, theater, Is based on the play "Ham ilton" which was written by Mr. Arllss In collaboration with Mary Hamlin, and was pbenominally suc cessful on the stage some years ago. The play deals wltb a dramatic episode In the life of the great statesman, when the wiles of a pretty adventuress temporarily held him in her power, and caused a scandal which only his outspoken confession of his Infatuation for the woman which had In no way Implicated him In dishonest deal ings with the affairs of the country clear up. LADD & BUSH, BANKERS Satem, Oregon Established 1868 Commercial and Savings Department Cwrrtm INI. VmU rrturt knW days, that "Interesting" look marks up your score appreciably. No doubt it is because we're growing tired or the standardization which In seasons past has marked so many of our women. If you can give us beauty with a new, bright note to It, you're welcomed with a cheer. Hugh Hume With the passing of Hugh Hume, founder and editor of the Portland Spectator, Oregon journalism loses its most brilliant and. versatile commentator. Satire, irony and hu mor characterized his writing, expressed with a facility all his own. He was not one who bludgeoned his facts, but was content with the rapier like thrust of wit to puncture the bubbles of sham. Personally Mr. Hume was one of the most charming and gracious of men. Widely cultured, interested in art, music drama, and the problems of life, he was a delightful conversationist with a wealth of anecdote and reminiscence, which he punctuated with pungent and sprightly comment. Mr. Hume belonged to the old school Bf individual journ alism, now being supplanted by the mediocre production of the machine age. Writing was an art to him, instead of a craft. He never felt called upon to express himself in words of one syllable for the multitude, as is deemed essential In these days of mass appeal, but for those whose culture was more than a shallow stream. Mr. Hume will be sadly missed, not only by his readers, but by a large circle of friends, now more Br less scattered, among them the writer who had known him intimately for upwards of thirty years, had worked on the same desk with him, and found him not only a loyal and steadfast friend, but possessor of rare nobility of character. Rural Retail Trade Census figures show fifty-four percent or 7,882, of the 14,642 retailers in the state of Oregon are located in towns and cities of less than 10,000 population. Over sixty percent of the population of Oregon lives in the area served by these "rural retailers". In fact thirty of the thirty-six counties in the state of Oregon cBntain no town or city with a population as great as 10,000. In the etate there are, however, 62 towns and cities with a popula tion of 1,000 to 10,000 divided among various size groups as follows: nine cities and towns between 5,000 and 10,000; 14 between 2,500 and 5,000; and 29 between 1,000 and 2,500. The 7,882 retailers serving this rural area include: 1, 925 food stores; 2,131 retailers in the automotive group; 429 lumber and building material stores; 309 clothing and other apparel stores; 619 restaurants and lunch rooms; 216 furni ture stores; 941 general merchandise stores; 275 drug stores; 118 jewelry stores. The total sales for these rural retailers amount to $182,368,079, or 40 percent of the total retail sales for the state. The figures show $44,646,026 or 43 percent spent with the automotive group, and $13,945,213 spent witn the food group. Thus the rural people of Oregon, like those of the citites, spend more on automobiles than they do on food and this is an expense that a few decades ago did not figure at all in the family budget. Is it any wonder people are hard up, when they deny themselves food to buy gasoline? We werp talkln? about thin tha other day. How ineffective Is Just prettlnessl A recent Hollywood visitor reported a distaste for the standardized blond heads, and fig- urea an oi me same size ana pro- nnrflnn Knt thm. li.JinB ...... lights were referred to, but rather the extras, the girls with small parts, and the great army of hang ers on, filling in Jobs here and there while they wait. And thllfl iha Inarilni alrl ..s nitu v.tV SCreen were anna intn am ouMnnnn of a new beauty demand with "In- tcimuig- me adjective most pre ferred and most applicable. Fcr- hfMU Wp'rn oattlntr .... original meaning of beauty. Or perhaps It has Just grown "broad minded," along with the manners1 ...... i. .11113 or our agf Anyway, Do?is Blake Says:- Two Room Apartment Is Easier on Married Life Than a Studio By DORIS BLAKE An October bride-to-be was the reason for the apartment hunting expedition. One of tho reasons! The other, though he may not figure so prominently at the wed ding, still Is a pretty important reason In an apartment hunting expedition. Plans for a large wedding and a good sized apartment had to be abandoned, as many other plans for expenditures havo had to be you yourself can run over the head liners of the screen and check up on that "interesting looking" feat ilre and see if it Isn't Important. within the last year, and for the same reason. The girl, in her eag erness to cooperate on the new economy plan, looked to a -one room apartment as the likely problem to the rent problem. There was the room, with a quite modern kitchenette arrangement hidden back of a door In a small foyer. There was the bath, very good looking, Indeed, though In clined to be small. There were the in-a-door bed arrangement and two fair sized closets. The rent, to be exact, was (67.50. The apartment building bore a good address. It's lobby was Impressive and there were certain service features that appealed. It so happened that next on the house hunting list was one place featuring studio rooms at a lesser price. There we trailed. The first studio room shown, like the other featuring kitchenette and bath and service features, was In a state of obviously hurried leavetaklng. "Yes," the renting agent explain ed, "they were in here only four months. Thev were onW married that long. She stas nlw little In Antoinette's Beauty Talks Dash of Interest Can Make Beautiful Girl Even More Attractive If you cant be beautiful be in-1 but a year ahead preparation will terestlngl do for our purposes. For yours, Take that for yovu- lMl-U motto! I mean! It will serve you longer, of course, 1 As beauty l spread before us these 20,000,000 The Twenty Millionth Ford car, symbolic of one man's contribution to world history, and the development of American industry will visit Valley Motor Co. enroute from Detroit on a transcontinental tour. During its visit here, it will be displayed at Liberty St. at Center St. Wed. Sept. 23 From 12:00 to 3:00 during which an official welcoming committee will greet the .car on behalf of this community. Motion pictures of the event will be made. Contemplation of what the production of 20,000,000 auto mobiles means may be easier if it is realized that an area as large as the District of Columbia would be required to park them, and, if placed bumper to bumper, they would girdle the earth at the equator nearly twice. Its tour of the country completed, the Twenty Mil lionth Ford will be returned to Greenfield Village at Dearborn for preservation near the first Ford car built in 1893. You are invited to see the Twenty Millionth Ford and to participate in the welcoming ceremonies. O VALLEY MOTOR CO. O AUTHORIZED FORD SALES AND SERVICE SALEM. ORE. "Twenty Million Buyers Can't Be Wrong" PORN IN FRANCE SEPT 4, 1757. LEFT AN ORDHAH AT rj WITH A GREAT FORTUNE, MARRIED: AT 16 AND ENTEAEP THE FRENCH 0UARP IM 1 w I IT IT lOHLE WAS EAGER TO JOIN THE COIONIEJ KIT THE OUTBREAK Of THE REVOLUTION BUT WAS FORCIBlY DETAINED BY THE. KIN4. ESCAPING HE CAME TO AMERICA American Biographies in Miniature Marquise de Lafayette (1757-1834) Every man should al low hia Influence t5 extend beyond the ter ritory of his family and his town. The na tion is but a larger family. Wm m ii nr- JlHOUGH ONUT I 19 HE WAi MADE MAJOR" GENERAL IN THE COLONIAL ARMY. HE RETURN' TO FRANCE If! 1779 TO ENLIST THAT COUNTRY AID E WAS MM A COLONEL AND LATER A MAJOR-GENERA! IN THE FRENCH ARMY. HE LENT BOTH HIMSEIF AND HIS MONEY ID THE REVTXUTON AND WAS A GREAT IROl WHEN HE V8IJ AMERICA IN 17 M 55 "PRICE FAIRNESS" SHALL REMAIN OUR MOTTO 1891 MORTGAGES - INVESTMENTS - INSURANCE Have you an Investment Plan? Do you invest as the spirit moves you or according to some well rounded plan of diversification t If you do the latter you are a poor prospect for the "wildcatter" who sells his victims on impulse not REASON. But what should appeal to your reason is including our prime First Mortgages in your investments. HAWKINS 6f ROBERTS, INC. SECOND FLOOR, OREGON BUILDING, SALEM
