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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1931)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931 CapitalJtJournal Salem, Oregon Established March 1. 18M in Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sundaj at 138 a Commercial Street. Telephone 4681. News 4883 CEUROE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher Sl'BSCKIPTION RATES By carrier 10 cents a week; 45 cents a month; $5.00 a year In advanca By mail In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month 50 cents; 3 months fl.2.1; 6 months $2.25; 1 year 94.00. Elsewhere 50 oentt a month; a months 12.75; 5.00 a year In advance. FILL LEASED HIKE SKHVK E OF TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS : AND THE I NITIO PRESS The Associated press la exclusively entitled to the use tor publication ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and ftiso local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes 1 sketch your tcorld exactly as it goes." Byron A Jolt to Free Power The army board of engineers for rivers and harbors ha.- rejected the recommendations of the local engineers for t?reat power development on the Columbia as well as Grand Coulee lam and irrigation project on tlie upper river, on the ground that there is no market for the power until the distant fu ture, the sale of water would not pay for the Columbia basin project, while the improvement of navigation is held only a minor adjunct of power deve onment. the board however. Invites the filing of arguments bearing on the necessity of adoption of cither of the projects and will grant a hearing if esired. The free power for nothing program at government xpense has evidently hit a snag, and until a market for the power generated and for the products produced materializes, Lncle Sam, facing a three billion deficit, is in no mood to stand such a colossal sectional raid on the treasury. Either the engineers are woefully ignorant of the sacred Joseph platform or refuse to be stampeded by a slogan. There is already a surplus of developed power, as of most everything else. V ith lumber mills, our greatest in dustry, operating at 20 percent of capacity, with industry slowed down generally to G5 percent of normal activity, with a surplus piled up of everything produced, with agricultural products selling at less than cost of production and the fed eral farm board frantically urging reduction of acreage, any such development as proposed, at the present time, would only nggrevate the situation and make conditions worse. There is already a bill pending in congress for a mora torium upon payments of settlers on developed reclamation projects, which testifies as to their lack of prosperity. To add to the number, would be folly. A market for power hinges on new industries which cannot materialize until there is a market for their products. To make river naviga tion profitable would require a great increase in both popu lation and production and would only further penalize the distressed railroads. The time will probably come, after the country finishes its tailspin in deflation, when some of the Columbia projects will be practical and feasible, but that is for the future. Our present problem is to again make profitable the existing in dustries and agricultural areas and not spend hundreds of millions of the oppressed taxpayers' funds in making condi tions worse. Hills are pending in congress calling for huge sums ami new set-ups to relieve business generally, and the Columbia will have to wait awjiile. Late In Assistance The closure of the Hibcmia bank in I'ortmnd, with its $G,500,000 deposits is most unfortunate. The bank has had the reputation of being most conservatively conducted. The cause is evidently the depreciation of securities to far below actual value into the class of frozen assets. The other banks of Portland announce that just as quickly as claims are verified by the stale banking superin tendent, reasonable cash advances on deposits in the Hi bernia can be obtained from the other institutions. Why could not these "reasonable advances" been made on the bank securities, before closure was forced, and thus averted the failure? It is true by permitting the closure, the other bunks eliminated a competitor, but in the reaction all are likely to suffer. Perhaps the members of the Portland clearing house are not as selfish or shortsighted as their course appears to outsiders. But they permitted the Ladd and Tilton and the Northwestern National, the latter perfectly solvent, to close their doors, after which the other banks offered their assist ance in liquidation not operation. This is a time for extension, not curtailment of credits, and for the utmost leniency in passing on security values. Only by such tactics by those in official and financial life, can the emergency be weathered and widespread bankruptcy avoided. Like To Be Buncoed Concerning the Capital Journal's remarks to the effect that the Culbertson-I.enz bridge match is a fake and a rac ket, the Oregonian says: The lare cltv newspapers will be chagrined to lcnrn tint r-venbody Is out ot stop except the KliIi'iii, Orc'Cnpilai Journal. The Capital Journal makes no pretense of conformity to fads and has no uixilogies to offer for refusing to march with the procession when it is merely milling around in a circle and getting nowhere, as in the present stimulated, highly commercialized effort of popularizing professional bridge ex perls. These big newspaers, like the Oregonian fall for more syndicated bunk than any business in the world, and Under the impression they are filling a long felt want, pay their good money and devote their high priced space to propaganda ballyhoo to enrich others. There is nothing spontaneous about these efforts to popularize fads. They are carefully planned and worked out. There arc "systems" to be sold, books to be peddled, radio talks, lectures, and syndicated newspaper articles to lie hawked and "lessons" to be given by the "experts" nil at a profit. One big newspaper takes it up and the others follow, on the principle of following the leader, and almost overnight there is a nation-wide hullabaloo, which subsides almost as quickly as it originates when it is dis covered that there is really no popular, but only an artfully stimulated artificial demand. People evidently like to be buncoed, including great pub lishers, but they don't like to have it called to public atten tion by the country press. REFORMERS ON TRAIL OF CATS; LICENSES SEEN San Francisco IP It's awel! for the f Lull, but tough on the cats. For Kitty's nlpht life Is about through. The reformers are after her. She's taken so much license that now she may have to wear a license to end her kind of wild life and preserve another. Which means that the state fish and game commission is considering a license tax on house cats. Given a saucer of milk, a ball of string or a warm fireplace, the com lub&ioii grants that Kitty's okeh. But when Uie moon rises and the back fence promenade starts, she's a terror. By day, also, she gets in her licks. Out in the wide open spaces she re verts to type and stalks birds and fish. Found within the limits of a i.sh and game rut-serve, the law de lares her a predatory animal, and name warck'ii.s are authorized to "put her on the spot." This protec tion, the commission Insists, is not enounh. The International Cat In vestigation society proposes the death penalty for all cats found without a license. There are 120,000.000 cats In the United States, the society revealed, point ng out that John Burroughs estimated American cats kill 6,000,000 birds a year. This is a loss to farm ers, it Is held, because the defunct birds would have helped destroy in sects which cause $800,000,000 crop damme annually. The proposed license would cost SO cents annually. At this rate, object ors to the tax point out, a prolific lady cat would mother away the big ger part of a $5 bill for her owner each year. Antoinette's Beauty Talks Stretching U Best Reducer for the Too Generous Arm By ANTOINETTE DONNELLY About that flabbineas of Uie arm: When women run to general stoutness the arm flabblness Is noted in particular. A regular bas ket of flesh nantcs loosely suspended from arm bone and muscle, in evening dress it is pretty distressing both to the onlooker and the victim. In sleeved growns Uie enormous girth isn't hidden by the material, either. The funny part of this up per arm nesn is tnat you mm u on young women as well as older Doris Blake Says:- Mixed Foursome of Young Folks Causes One (firl Heartaches We'll takj the two girls, "Mickey and Mousey." (Honestly, that's what the boys call them.i But we'll take them because they have a problem that arises frequently In the lives of girl pals. These- two girls, any two girls. will beet two boys. They do a good dL'al or party ins? around in four somes. Then Mickey's boy friend will discover that Mou.-ey is the one he really lik?s. Or, may be it ts Mickey's escort that longs for the change of partner. Now, what are the girls to do un der the cirrum.stai.cets? Grab the beau away from under the girl pal's nose, or what? It's hard to make the "hurt" girl see tliat. lt isn't a grab. It's hinder to make her entertain wenerous feelings for the preferred girl. She gels a "mad" on, usually. And itas mad for a Jong time. That's one of the crimes unpardon abletaking your beau away from you. Well, a hurt vanity is something none of us stand up under very heroically. Least of all, the inex perienced young. It's hard to make them understand that love Just hap iwns that way, that the fact that a boy has been beauing you about for lew mom lis or a year may not mean you are the girl, after all. He doesn't know it when he starts tak ing you around. And you mav be a better looking girl than the one he prefers above you. You may be a nicer girl, a sweeter one. a kinder one. But that hasn't anything to do with the case. It Juft happens that the two fall for each other. You can't do any thing about it. Nor should you want to. There's some attraction there that you can't rule, govern nor out- . It s just there, with no one to blame. And that's the wav I d like to see niore of you uirls react to a sit uation nf i he kind. Be wise about it. Be big and be right. Don't get mad about some thing that cant be helped. II Uie other mrl of the foursome hasn't the courage to come to tell you of the infatuation, make things easier lor yourself as well as tor her nnd tlie young man Involved by making the suirestion yourself. You can ave your tare beautifully that way -and your pride. Hard Times Dance Staged by Firemen Hubbard The Hubbard volunteer fire detainment, members werp hosts to the community and adjacent dis tricts at a hard times costume party Saturday evening. The atfair was held at the city hall. The firemen give a dance every other Saturday. the proceeds being used toward a fire equipment fund. Oeorie Orimps is preMdei-t of (he fire company and ..(v-r nrovn ecreT.irv. UTLER KILLS RICH EMPLOYER Pouhkeepsie, N. Y. i& Furious because he had been discharKed, a Japanese butler stabbed and hack ed his millionaire employer, J. Wil liam Schatz, 55. to death after a desjierate struggle in the Schatz mansion here Sunday. Aided by his meek sister-in-law the butler then began a murderous attack upon Schatz a companion, Mrs. Florence Quick Carozza, 26, whom he had forced to look on as he killed the rich manufacturer and sportsman. Police summoned through the tracing of her strangled call for help, arrived to save her from death after she had sustained two stab wounds and several ham mer blows. Authorities said the butler, Gan tero Aklyama, 28, stoically confessed the crime. His sister-in-law, Sad ako Otsuka, 26, also confessed, they said. Tlie pair was held on chargg es of first degree murder. The attack began in the bedroom where Schatz and Mrs. Carozza were sleeping. Akiyama leaped through an open window from a porch roof I and seized Mrs. Carozza. who he I believed had induced Schatz to dis- i charge him. Schatz entered the battle and was hit over the head with a water bottle. The battle ratjed into the hall, where the Otsuka woman entered It when Mrs. Carozza tried to telephone for help Schatz wilted under the attack of his small but wiry opponent and was dracged to the cellar. Then Mrs. Caroza was forced downstairs and held in a chair v.lnle her friend was slain. She managed to flee but was at tacked on tlie stairway Just as po lice hammered on the door, Aki yama fled. It was Mrs. Carozza's desperate attempt to telephone for help that saved her life. She was pulled away from the instrument before she had said more than a word, but the re ceiver remained off the hook and the telephone operator heard the sound of the fight. The Vail was traced and police notified. They found Aklyama cowering in a coal bin. his sister-in-law upstairs. Both submitted quietly. Akiyama had brooded over his discharge, of which he had been In formed by Schatz when Schatz and Mrs. Carozza returned from Uie theater and found unprepared the lunch SchaU had ordered. Sadako Otsuka, unable to speak English, told through an interpret er she had helped her brother-in- law because she sympathized with him. Schatz ran a small bearing man ufacturing business into a fortune. He was prominent as a big game hunter and golfer. His home is an imposing place in an exclusive section of the city. Mrs. Carozza Is separated from her husband, a state trooper. Lincoln Children of the Lincoln school will present a Christmas pro gram at the school house Tuesday evening and a Christmas tree and exchange of gifts will also be fea tures. Parents are planning to take either cake or sandwiches and a general get-together social hour will follow the program. Plans had been made to have the procram Dec. 23 but because two neighboring com munities were having programs on that night it was decided to change in order that others might come who wished to attend more than one pro frram. I on girls who aren't noticeably plump or iiaooy eisewnere, too. It's flesh that can be massaged off with more comparative ease tnan flesh otherwise located, be cause it is so loose and flabby. But the trouble for the average woman who feels she cannot afford profes sional massage service is that she simply cannot get around her arms with uie forceful and vigorous mas sage movements need'xl. She gets discouraged alter an attempt or two and decides she'll either cover up me arms or lorgei mem. Now curiously enough, though tlie arms do a lot of moving and swinging about In the course of a day, that upper arm sector doesn't get the necessary amount of muscle extension to keep fat off. If you note your arm movements for a twenty-iour hour period you'll dis cover that rarely is there any pull or movement of any account on the upper arm muscles. Very little stretching upward is done. You use the small ladder to reach thP shelves, or more likely you have the dishes you're using daily within easy reach. Or your closet shelves are within easy reach. Consequently when you do a day's cleaning of these shelves your arms ache. Indicating that you've been making those arm muscles do something they re not accustomed to doing. It Is said that you find the loveliest arm formation among those Italian women who train their vines on arbors which are higher than their heads. Tlie Italian woman is obliged to raise her arms in order to reach the vines. So stretching and reaching higher be come the recommended movements for a harmony of arm line. Stretch and stretch and reach hUh up to ward the top rim of an imaginary arbor of vines. You can do this any time and anywhere around the hou.e. Elkins Farm Union Has Its Election Monmouth Election of officers featured the meeting of the Far mers Union. Friday evening at the Elkins school house. Olticers lor the coming year are Laird Linder man, president; Verne Osborne, vice-president; Mrs. Laird Linder man, secretary and treasurer. Judge Hawkins of Dallas, was the speaker of the evening. COUNTY CLLKK 44 YEARS Jackson, Miss. (LP) Tom Q. Brame. Jasper county chancery clerk, holds the record for public office holding in Mississippi. He has been clerk 44 years, running for office 11 times without a defeat. HOLIDAY FILMS OFFER VARIETY TO SALEM FANS Discussed as Santa Clans as far as Salem theater patrons are con cerned. Manager Earl Rice of the Warner Bros, houses, is offering a varied selection of pictures in con nection with the Christmas fiesta of films which opened Sunday night. "Skyline," with Thomas Meighan. Hardie Albright and Marueen O -Sullivan, opened a two-day en gagement at the Warner Bros. Elsl uore theater Sunday night, featur ing hazardous feats and daredevil rUks. Tills will be followed by "The Runaround," a new technicolor pre sentation comedy-drama with Mary Brian, Marie Prevost and Geoffrey Kerr giving outstanding performan ces. The film reveals how show girls wm millionaires. Ivan Leberdeff, with Genevieve Tobin and Betty Compson. is seen one night only. Wednesday, In the "Gay Diplrvnat." showing the high arts of old Rus sia. Three different shows In three days is the offering of the Warner Bros. Capitol theater, which pre sent! Wlllard Mack's Broadway stage smash, "High stakes," Mon day only. Supporting Lowell Sher man are Mae Murray, Karen Mor ley and other well-known players in a film of racketeering women and lonely millionaire. Tuesday brings 'Three Who Loved." featuring Bet ty Compson, Conrad Nagel and Ro bert Ames in a triangle drama with a powerful real-life plot from the pen of Martin Flavin. Sally O'Neill, in "The Brat," is seen Wednesday only in a comedy romance which takes a fling at life among the rich. "Wicked," with Victor McLaglen and Ellssa Landl. comes Thursday only In a stark humaiutfUama strikmnH revealing a new aiinle of mother lore. Christmas day and Saturday brings a "New Adventures of Get-Rich-Qulck-Wallingford" to the Elsinore and "A Dangerous Affair," a mys tery -romance-comedy to the Cap itol, featuring Jack Holt. Amsterdam, Holland. Is subsidiz ing butldiPT rep'itrwok B ENEFICIAL LOAN SOCIETY NEW BUGH 1UIIDING, SECOND HOO: CIO STATE STREET tflO Al HIGH ST. -PHONE. 37 i' SALEM. OREGOlS LADD & BUSH, BANKERS Salom, Oregon Established 1SGS Commercial and Savings Department BUY YOUIt GIFTS AT BREIER'S Students Are Home On Short Vacation Sil vert on Among the Silver ton young people arriving home Friday for the Chris trrwi holiday are; From the Oregon State college. Jack Btranix, Luetic Skalfe. Louisa Schm- edteke, Blanche Young and Hillte Eastman; from University of Ore gon, Harriet and Jo Campbell, Fran ces and Elizabeth Kee-. Robert stranit. Roer Comsteck. John and lima Oop'lrud. Evelyn Solum. Shir ley Syl rater. 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