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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL SALEM. OREGON WEDNESDAY,' DECEMBER 21, 1932 CapitolJjjJournal Salem, Oregon Established March 1, 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday 134 & commercial Btreet. Telephone 4911. news 4883 GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES By corner 10 centa a week; 48 cents a month: 15.00 a year In advance. By mall In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counU.es, one month 60 centa; 8 tnontha $1.35; 8 months $2.35; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 50 cents a month; 6 months $2 75; 15.00 a year in advance. FULL LEASED WIRE 6KRVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PBESS ANr THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Pre' la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local newa published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Byron German Alchemy Under Instruction of the German Reich and under offl elal but skeptical supervision of Professor Max Bodenstein head of the physical and chemical institute of research of Berlin university. Ernst A. Krause. physicist and master chemist has begun an experiment by which he hopes to manufacture gold from cheap raw materials in commercial quantities. Germany needs 80 tons of gold to restore pros perity and 100 tons or mica slate is being processed cnemi cally for transmutation into gold, In a special laboratory which includes an electrical furnace capable of producing an extraordinary high temperature. Transmuting of gold from baser metals has always been the dream of the alchemist lrom earliest recorded civuiza tion. To efforts along this line we owe much that we know of chemistry, but the artificial production of gold has ever eluded alchemist and chemist alike. Alchemy originated in Egypt and the dominant theory of the alchemists was that any of the baser metals contain the same constituents as told mixed with impurities and when they are removed the transmutation is effected. At first the "philosophers stone was sought for removal, later was added the search for the "alkahest" or universal solvent; then the "magis- tenum a substance that could convert all metals into gold, The efforts to produce gold absorbed the energies of the ancients. Caligula conducted extensive experiments and by the time of Diocletian the passion for this pursuit, conjoined with the magical arts became so prevalent in the Roman empire that the emperor ordered the destruction of nil Egyptain works on the subject. But alchemy was taken up by the Arabs, from whom it found its way through Spain Into Europe generally, principally practiced in medieval times by the Monks. Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus both were beleivers in the controvertibility of inferior metals into gold the "perfect metal." In the resultant division between chemists and alche mists the latter took up the fantastical and visionary side of the older alchemy and compiled mystical trash into books that had a great vogue. Their language is a farago of mystical metaphors and absurd nonsense, but despite the explosion of their doctrines by modern chemistry, the Ger man effort shows the dream of transmutation Still persists. There are some facts in connection with allotrophy to countenance the transmutability of other metals into gold, from the proof that the emanation of radium is transformed Into helium, and that probably radium itself is a transforma tion from uranium; perhaps load is what remains of the radium emanation when helium is removed and cognate speculations point to the production of gold from the baser metals as not quite impossible though not yet demonstrated. Though it seems like a harking back to the dark ages for modern Germany to seriously pursue the ancient alche mists will-o-the-wisp, it must be remembered that we arc comparitively ignorant of the chemistry of the cosmos, and the Germans the world's most advanced chemists and the experiment will add to human knowledge if not to the world's supply of gold. As long as the gold standard obtains In finance, such efforts will be made. It is more sensible to try to create gold for relief purposes than it is to spend it a3 we are doing. When gold can be manufactured cheaply syn thetically, we will get some more sensible monetary system. Indiana Cuts Taxes ' Ninety two counties in Indiana have reduced taxes for 1033. The revision downward involves every one of the 1,592 taxpnying units of the slate and the average saving is 30.3 percent. This reduction will be applied to nssessible property which has been reduced 21 percent in value. The saving to real and persona taxpayers will total $-12,515,086. Taxes next year will be ?97,524,G06 as compared with 5140,069,591 this year. The leader in reduction is Orange county in south western Indiana, with 73.9 percent slash, Marion county, Indianapolis, shows the least reduction, 16 percent. . Assessiblo property this year was $5,073,311,146. Next year it will be ?3,995,843,838 a reduction of ?1,077,387,208. Reduction in valuation was forced because property to be Bold for delinquent taxes would not bring nearly the assessed price. Appeals for relief to the legislature at the regular session fell on deaf ears. The situation continued to grow worse and the governor called a special 40 day session last July. . On the fortieth day, when almost everyone had de spaired of the emergency session accomplishing anything, the legislature enacted a law limiting the total tax levy to ?l.50 on each $100 of taxable property. The state's share was fixed at 15 cents, which meant drastic slashes in slate administra tive budgets. County, township, municipal and school taxing units were to get the remaining $1.35. But many of these units were carrying such a heavy burden that their share of the $1.35 would not begin to pay interest on bond issues or to retire those falling due immediately. And government bonds are supported by the Indiana constitution as prefer ential liens on tax revenues. So the legislature decreed that "in cases of emergency" the State Board of Tax Commission ers could authorize a levy higher than $1.50. Many of the counties and municipal units cut budgets sufficiently to get within the $1.50 limit. The legslaluro voted a blanket cut of all government salaries. It ordered a moratorium 011 bond issues for town ship and county road improvements, and assigned to counties And municipalities in which the tax is collected 2 cents, in stead of 1 cent as formerly, of tho slate 4-cent-gnllon gaso line tax. It ordered the slate highway system to take over the important county roads and maintain them by utilizing labor receiving a legal minimum wage instead of whatever un scrupulous contractors chose to pay. It gave to municipal governments several minor fees heretofore supporting only a state bureaucracy. It discussed a state income tax which the incoming legislature is pledged to enact. It authorized consolidation of townships and counties. All these economies were forced by an aroused citizen ship upon a reluctant legislature, against the embattled forces of the bureaucracy. Indiana has pointed the way for Oregon. PAPER COMPANY DEMURRER TO MINTO UPHELD Circuit Judge Lewelting yesterday afternoon sustained a demurrer of the plaintiff to the defendant's an swer In one particular In the cose of D. O. Mlnto against Oregon nap ec Paper company but over ruiea , demurrer as to other de fenses. The particular matter sustained In the demurer was a defense set up by the paper company that the plaintiff ought not to be permitted to offer proof that the premises are damaged for the reason that when the water receded In 1931 the defendant at the Instance of the plaintiff roked up and burned waste materials from the paper mill. The case la one In which Mlnto asks for damages alleged to have been sus tained by waste paper from the mill piling up on Mlnto Island. Under the ruling this one defense of the paper company is overturned but the balance of the defenses set ud In Its answer are sustained as far as their legal effect Is concerned In another damage action of sim ilar purport, that the Edward R. HouRham against the city of Mt. Angel, Judge Lewclllng ordered stricken from the amended com plaint a number of naraeTanhs. These paragraphs In question, the court held, pertained to matters which happened or existed before a contract was entered Into be tween the city and the Houghams. Hougham alleges that a sewer of the city on his ranch has damaged the property. The court ruit-d that the matters arising before the con tract was entered Into hod no place in tne allegations or the complaint. The court also overruled all ob jections to the cost bill In case of jonn xi. will against George P. Bur nett ana overruled a demurrer to the complaint In the case of Capitol Securities corporation against Alton e. wottmgnam. The National Whirligig News Behind the News By Paul Mallon Washington Some eastern re publican wets are organizing a sub rosa Insurrection against their par ty floor leader Bert Snell. They have been quietly buttonholing their brethren In dark corners sounding out tne cnances or Representative James w. wadsworth for Snell's Job. ao inr tncy have met with a fairly good response. If they get far enough along with their movement they will pit Wads worth against Snell when leaders of the new congress are chosen after March 4. The wets seem to feel Snell has not given the republican nartv In the house the kind of leadership It ougnc to nave. He voted for the Garner repeal resolution but he did not try to push the resolution through. Up to this time he has al ways been considered a dry. Back In their minds also Is the Idea of pushing Wadsworth forward as a presidential candidate in 1936. They think they can build him up to that prominence If they can only get the leadership. Wadsworth b thoroughly capable. There Is no doubt about that. He was In, the senate for many years. He lost out when republican drys In his state rebelled against his wet stand. Now the times seem made for him. Snell got the leadership two years ago by kicking out Tillson. He has been very successful. Both he and Wadsworth are conservative. Snell has not heard about the movement against him but when he docs tire fur will fly. Mister Stlmson was peeved about the New York Times saying that laughter came from the room where were writing the second debt note to the British. The secretary of state let It be known that he thought such a triv lal thing should not appear In news papers. He declined to Indicate what the laughter was about. Rumor has It that the unseemly laughter was provoked when Mr. Mills made an observation about two Scotchmen In this debt situa tion MacDonald and Herrlot with Herriot more Scotch than MacDonald, It was a new Bishop Cannon who appeared hero early in the week. His familiar crutches were gone. So was tne cane. He strode erect. His dictatorial manner of drier days was nowhere in evidence. He spoke per suasively before the house beer com mittee. One of the tricky questions was: "If the supreme court agreed 2.75 percent beer was not a violation of the constitution, would your church punish Its members for drinking that beer?" The bishop's ready answer was: "If a member of my church drank 2.75 percent beer and became drunk, the supreme court would be over ruled and the church would act ac cordingly." There Is no other dry leader here with anything near the bishop's po. lltlcal ability. Evidences are Increas ing that he Beeks return to promi nence In the movement. His pros pects are not good. i Nobody Is paying attention now to the trouble brewing below the Rio Grande. They will within the next few months when it becomes first page newa. The work of Senator Morrow la being undone bit by bit. The latest trivial Incident Is the protest of Mexico against a flight of American planes over the border November 22. Flares were dropped and Ignited for ests. That is piled atop a series of other trivialities the murder of two Mexican boys In the midwest, trou blea of consuls with prohibition ag ents. They make a formidable ob stacle to friendliness, all together. SANTA AND THE moil SIORID ARMS 8TNOPSIS: A woods falrr mi a dwarf flv lotno ken hi hid stolen from Santa to bli friends, tht toadi. ah discover! that Insa and Plnoechlo, two dolls from Torland, arc in tha woods hunting the dwarf and tha leers. Ther must find a wmatle which caua tbi toads together. Chapter XV GETTING THE WIIISTLB The woods fairy and Inga and rinoccnto waited up tne moun Gov. Roosevelt Is keeping In close contact with democratic senators. He cent his economic adviser, Prof. Moley down to see a certain senator last week. Moley was told the sen ator was busy. His name was not recognized. Nearly two hours later the senate got a long distance tele phone call from Albany explaining the Moley visit. The senator sent out scouts to bring Prof. Moley in. rney finally found him waiting pa tiently in the ante chamber, hat In hand. Profuse apologies were deliv ered. Bernard Baructa, the New York democratic angel, Is wielding a big influence behind the scenes In con gress. He manages to keep his name out of tlie newspapers while doing it. From the best sources comes news that he may be chairman of the American delegation to the proposed worm economic conference. If not ne wiu nave a lot to do with nam ing the delegates. Strong inside pressure is being ex. ertcd in both parties to make Sen ator Smoot a republican member of the delegation. He would represent the silver states. The Kaiser WiUielm Institute for Research has Just reported to the German federal ministry of agricul ture the development of a new brand of wheat. It will yield twice as many bushels per acre as the one now planted and is not subject to the law of the diminishing return. If generally adopted this wheat would make Germany independent of Imports after 1934. The basis for this discovery was laid In the work of the late Luther Burbank. The democrats are getting; ready to ditch one of their own party members, Atlee Pomerene on the R. P. O. They plan to refuse confirma tion of his nomination in the sen ate and that will put him out March 4. The Texas Jesse Jones, another democrat on the corporation board, is planning to retire then. So is Gardner Cowles, the Des Moines publisher. That means complete re organization of the R.P.C. by Roose velt. A former bartender, Congressman Palmisano of Baltimore, gave the most authentic wet testimony In the beer hearings. With all this argu- he and Treasury Secretary MUls mcnt over the question whether 3 53 Years Ago Edison Invents Electric Light The Fir6T- IncarhJescenr Lamp From the Nation's News Piles, New York, Dec. 21, 1879 Thomas Edison Is stringing his new Incandescent lamps on electrle wires, He uses as a filament rarbonized cotton thread. The properly lighted, well-appointed Mortuary is part of the Rlgdon Service. A well-trained staff conducts the service re gardless of cost. The little brown elves worked and worked trying to push a big rock in front of the dwarf's cave to lock him in. tain to the dwarf's cave trying to trunk or some way to get from him that whistle with which he called an his toad friends together. The dwarf meanwhile thought he nad fixed everything so well that he just went to sleep in his under ground home. "This dwarf Is so strong and so ugly in nis nature," explained tne fairy to the two dolls, "that I can't send my little wood elves against him. There didn't seem to be a thing to do. But suddenly Plnoechlo looked up above the cave-Uke door to the dwarfs home and saw sev eral huge rocks hanging on the mountainside. "Why, If we could push one of those down In front of his door, he couldn't get out," said Plnoechlo. That's a fine Idea," said the fairy. percent beer can make a person drunk, none of the legislators has tried to decide from personal exper. I lence. A simple solution would be for each member of congress to drink all the S percent beer he can hold and then determine for himself whether he Is tight. Maybe the su preme court will do it that way. "I'll call all my elves together and we'll a try to push one ot those rocks." She kneeled down and tapped three times on the ground and from every tree and bush around there tumbled cunning, little brown men. "Come with us," aha aald. ' want help to push one of those rocks down here In front of the dwarf's door." 60 the whole group of them Hooped up to a huge, gray rock and started pushing. But not an Inch did It move. "Why, how stupid of me," said Inga. "Here's the basket that Is never empty, I'll Just pull out 1 whole bunch of little donkeys. They 're very strong." How the only thing about that basket Is that it produces objects in keeping with the size of the per son who uses it. And Inga, after all, was only a little doll. So the don keys were about the size of so many puppies. But she pulled out fifty and they all started pushing with tneir nard little neaos. They pushed and pushed, and suddenly the rock moved an inch. Then it moved another Inch. Then "crash!" and It went rolling down tne nui ana ended up "smack' against the dwarf's door. There wasn't an inch for him to squeeze tnrougn. Then the whole company ran down the hill to hear the dwarf cry ing out inside: "Let me outl Helpl iin ail snut lnr "Not this time." cried Plnoechlo. "You're locked up until we get that wnisue. "What whistle?" shouted the dwarf. "I don't know what you mean." "Yes. you do," cried the woods lairy. "i know about It." And when the dwarf knew she was out there he changed his tune. "If I give It to you. will you helo me get out?" ne whined. Right away, but you must itlve it to us nrst. "All right, here it is. I'm pushing tnrougn inia little crack." ne called. Sure enough, there was a tiny sil ver whistle. Inga grabbed it quickly. bug men iney naa to get tnat big rocx away irom tne door. Tomorrow: Getting The Keys PCSSr WILLOWS BLOOM SUverton T. P. Heidenstrom who lives on McClolne street has several trees of pussy willows in full blos som. The trees grow alone- Sliver creek and make an unusual showing at this time of year. Heidenstrom nas some cuttings of twigs on dis play In show windows about town. SUverton The baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rlveness of Marquam is reported critically ill from pneu monia. The family formerly lived here. Mrs. Rlveness Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Corehouse. Mt. Angel Raymond Fisher Is spending a two weeks' Christmas vacation at the home of his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Schwab. Fisher is attending the un iverslty at Pullman. Wash. TRUCKS URGED TO KEEP FROM GRAVELED ROADS An appeal went out from county court members to truck users not to use county graveled roads for the next few days until tney nave a chance to settle from the badly softened conditions into which they have relapsed due to thawing of the ground which was frozen from eight to 10 inches deep In the recent spell of sharp weather. The freeze Is not all out of the ground yet, they say, regardless of the balmy air. Reports are now coming In from many sections as to the sortened conditions of the county roads. Some court members went up the Ablqua today on the new market road where bad damage was re ported being done by wood trucks hauling over the softened grade. ThQy also expected to Inspect a slide reported on me marxet roan above the SUverton power house. From Broadacres came the report that the new grade there over the railroad track at the Whitney store was so soft that any cars running into it hod to be puuea out and It la likely this road will be closed for a few days with traf fic routed around the old road. Bad washes were also reported on a new fill near the Catholic ceme tery Just north of Woodburn. Numerous other reports were coming In of minor damage, cut up roads and sloughing on fills. Court members stated that they ex pected the roads would be back in shape in a few days but there was nothing to do about It but to al low nature to take Its course and for heavy trucks to keep off of them. School buses, mUk wagons and slmUar conveyances of ne cessity must be allowed on the roads but It was intimated If other heavy haulers did not obey the request to keep off that action might be taken toward a temporary closing of the gravel roads until tney were again in snape to nandie the traffic. Nearly 1,500 tractors for farm use were Imported in South Africa last year. gra spa spa - 50c to $5.00 Regardless of price ev ery box packed with extreme care ("En semble") with our home-made chocolates. The SPA Methodist Primary Pupils Celebrate SUverton The primary depart ment of the Methodist church held a Christmas program Sunday morn ing during the Sunday school hour. Mrs. S. J. Comstock directed tha recitations and Miss Diana Moore had charge of music. Mrs. Edson Comstock Is primary superintend ent. Mrs. Feme Davenport played the piano accompaniments. About 65 little boys and girls took part In the chorus numbers. Those taking special parts in tha affair were Donna Claire Porter, John Cooper, Beverly Davenport, Ruth Mellbye, Margaret Scott, Lou ise Ryan, Jean McCleary, Kathleen Ryan. Marian Hubbs, Betty Zette berg, LaVon Thomas, Jean Camp bell, Patricia Hedgea, Zephne Olv ens, Arlene Barker. Louise Bahrlce, Agnea Naegll, June Bucll, Morjorlt Baker, Lloyd Naegll, Donald Chand ler and Wallace Adams. SUverton The choir of the Me thodist church held a Christmas party foUowing practice Monday evening at the church. Bert Day and W. K. Cain were In charge. A Free Demonstration of the General Electric Washer with the Activator . . . careful as human hand Your washing can be made easier and less expensive with Cilia achievement el General Electric engineers. 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