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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931
CapitaUjJournal
Salem, Oregon
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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