THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931
CapitalJtJournal
Salem, Oregon
Established March 1. 18M
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at 138 a Commercial Street. Telephone 4681. News 4883
CEUROE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
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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
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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. Tom and Klrauor Jn?
ltn.Ut.tyne and KtiUi Ilubba, mho
vill have as a houae tuct Miss Mar
caret Jamie, whose home is In Uie
Hawaiian Inlands: from the Willam
ette University, Man Lmdhelm. La
Forrest McDonald and Franc1 Stewart.
Germany Hill spend 1312.000,000
for pnfehc buildings thta year.
Concentration Sale
EVERY ITEM IN STOCK ON SALE
Savings o 1 to
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1H North Commercial Street
Salem
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IMPERIAL'S
Gift
For the Women
BED LAMPS 93c
Hand dorated parchment shade complete with fix.
ture ana ullt card.
SEWING CABINETS $11.50
She will appreciate one of these sewing cabinets. New
styles and priced from $11.50 up.
WRITING DESKS $21.73
Walnut or mahogany desk in drop front or secretary
style. Priced vp from $21.75.
DAVENPORTS $39.00
A gift she'll enjoy for years to come . . . either in
Mohair or tapestry with reversible cushions.
For the Men
SMOKING STANDS $1.93
Clever designed smoking stand at $1.95 . . . also a good
selection of cabinet smokers, priced low,
FOOT STOOLS $7.93
Spring construction overside footstools covered in col
orful tapestries and velours.
READING LAMPS $4.95
A complete reading lamp with parchment shade . . .
a variety of style shades and standards to select from.
SUMMER LAMPS $26.50
These chairs are doeply upholstered for comtort A
real gift for ' Dad." Soe them.
For the Kiddies
WINDSOR CHAIRS $3.30
immmtHiMifi
In st vies to match the chairs for grown-ups. Well
constructed . . an ideal chair for the little one.
DOLL BUGGIES $3.00
Varies size busies In Wicker styles . . . different
colors . . . and priced up from S3 00.
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. of the newest and
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Many other gift sug
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Open evenings until 8:30
I'ntil Christmas
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