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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1933)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933 Capital jjjlournal Salem, Oregon Established Mnh 1. IBM ' An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday GEORDE PUTNAM, SUBSCRIPTION BATES By carrier 10 cents a week: 45 cents a month: $5.00 a year In advance. By mall In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month 60 cents; i months 91.25; 6 months $2.16; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 60 cents a month, s months $3.75; $5.00 a FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 7' " . AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively ol all news dispatches credited to It paper and also local news published , "With or without offense to friends or foes i I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Byron i "Applied Christianity" The legislature deeply sympathizes with the farmer and home owner unable to meet interest or principal on his mort gage and movements for a moratorium are underway. These loans1 carry interest charges of from 6 to 8 percent.. Yet no sympathy at all is expressed for the laborer or unemployed who have to pay (is high as 300 percent a year on small loans secured by chattel mortgage on their furniture and fixtures or other meager possessions. The state farm mortgage ing for the amelioration of the condition of farm debtors for extension of loans, readjustment of interest rates, etc., on the theory announced by Chariman O. M. Plummer, "just a little applied Christianity that's our goal", but the "applied Christianity" of the house of of the loan sharks that Jesus The net results of the effort to curb usury, was the re duction of interest rates on pawnbroker's loans from three to two and a half percent a month. Yet pawnbrokers are the least obnoxious of the loan sharks and their rates less than those of so-called companies that flourish by exploiting the poor. The representatives refused to lower interest rates on loans ot sau or less to 10 percent a montn, though no one, even in prosperous times can and survive. The bill to limit interest rates on all loans up to $300, to two and one-half percent a month was killed as was the bill to reduce the limit for three percent a month loans from $800 to $300, and that reducing interest rates on month ly balances of loans on autos percent on sums of $500 or less. Representative Hannah Martin of Marion asserted that 8 percent monthly rates were unconscionable and that it was "common gossip that a strong lobby, with ample money had worked against the bills." A similarly well financed lobby two years ago put over the legislation that makes Oregon a mecca for loan sharks. Representative Paulus, also of Marion, was the chief defender of the Christianity his constituency should be proud of. : Peruna for Depression ,A United States senate Idea of summoning 250 or more of the "best minds" of finance, industry, law, economics, technocracy, labor, etc.. to give their individual formulas for the cure of depression and restoration of prosperity. The result thus far has been a curious hodge-podge of conflicting ideas and suggestions that proves that the best minds know little more about the subject than the man on the the majority in agreement the even on the method there is disagreement. John W. Davis, democratic nominee for the presidency in 1924, declined the senate invitation to set the world aright as beyond him, saying; As the depression Is not due to any single cause, unless It be human folly, I am sure It cannot be cured by any single remedy. I have long since cased to believe In governmental miracles or legislative cure-alls. To my mind the most helpful thing congtcss can do Is to devote Itself to the obvious things that lie close at .guidance. This would seem to blow-up the grandiose ' scheme of providing a peruna for depression. There is nothing logical about humanity or government that reflects it and there are too many variables to be considered to provide a simple solution, it is folly to attempt Congress should, as Mr. Davis says, confine itself "to the obvious things that lie close at hand," among which he mentions four, budget, beer, which congress has so far failed to touch. While these re visions would not end the depression, each would contribute something to relief. There seems some suspicion that the senate has sum moned these best minds really to exonorate itself by show- ing that congress is no more at dustry and finance, and thus restore some of its lost prestige, But on the other hand, it is easier to listen to 250 witnesses than it is to go to work on the Another One of the fool measures passed by the house, is H. B. dentistry and forbidding dental advertising. It would seem that once a dentist has qualified and been licensed, his ethics were a matter for himself and the dental profession and not the province of the state. The bill provides that any revoked or suspended for Making use ot nny advertising deceive or mislead tho public; advertising prolcsslonal superiority or the performance of professional services In a superior manner; advertising prices for professional service; advertising by means of large display, glaring signs, or containing as a part thereof the representation of a tooth, teeth, bridge work, or any portion of the human head; employing or making use of advertising solicitors or free publicity agents; or ad vertising any free dcntul work or free examination; or advertising to guarantee any dental service or to perform any dental operation pain lessly. There would seem to be ample safeguards in the present law, which provides that any dentist may have his license re voked for "the advertisement of dental business or treatment or devices in which untruthful and misleading, improbable or impossible statements are made." This would seem to supply safeguards enough, for the public is already protected from untruthful and misleading advertising. Fraudulent statements can be controlled through existing legal methods and through the better business bureaus. The proposed law will prevent dentists who desire to use proper and effective advertising for their profession and business from so doing. It is doubtful if the bill is constitutional for it is class legislation and an infringement of personal rights and privil TEACHERS LAID UP Silverton Miss Edna Spcnker dean of girls at the local high school and Miss Mildred Wharton, Junior high school Instructor, have both been 111 with ptomaine poisoning I Editor and Publisher year in advance. entitled to the use lor publication or not otherwise credited in this herein. . ' adjustment committee is work representatives is all in behalf scourged from the temple. pay 120 percent a year interest from three to two and a half usurers a record of "applied committee evolved the bright street. On only one subject are balancing of the budget, but hand, trusting the future for further it. war debts and tariffs things sea than the captains of in obvious. Fool Bill pending in the senate, already 148 relating to the practice of dentist may have his license statements of a character tending to Miss Wharton was unable to at tend her classes Monday. Mrs. H B. Wells substituted for her. Miss Mary Sinclair, commercial lnstruc tor in the senior high school, U also 111 Mrs. Frank Powell substituted for her Monday, Shooting the Works! ONCE. MORE fJ I nX.. ' I ( ! The National Whirligig News Behind the News By Paul Mallen Washington The British did somersault on the Manchurian ques tion recently. Tncy suddenly stop ped trying to block action by the League of Nations and Joined hands with those who would slap Japan on the wrist. The conversion may be permanent. An underlying reason was that the Chinese press was geting belli gerently anti-British The vernacu lar editors halted their nose-thumb ing at the Japanese and turned their widespread fingers on Sir John Simon. Ho hod been phenagling around Geneva to prevent anti-Jan ancso action The British could not stand for that. -They have commer cial interests in China which far outweigh their peace interests in the Pacific. They own the better part or tne Yangtze valley, Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. It did not take them long to figure that they had better change sides. It is quite obvious that London ordered Sir John to negotiate the change of front. Action was pre sumably taken by tho British Cab inet. The Instigator was Premier MacDonald. Until then he had let the cabinet faction favoring Japan have Its own way. The change does not mean that anything important will be done to Japan It means that a show of do ing something will be staged to pacify China. And It also means that Asian precedents will be laid down carefully for use when Hitler get going strong. Admiral Pratt did not fib when he said he was keeping the Ameri can fleet In the Pacific another year for reasons of economy. He Just meant economy of words In our Far Eastern policy not economy In money. Latest official confidential reports from Japan indicate antl-Amerlcan feeling has NOT diminished even though you seldom hear about It in news dispatches. The best qualified Japanese sources hero say Japan will surely withdraw from the Lea gue if the decision there goes against them. That will be only of psycho logical Important. Under League rules her resignation would NOT become effective until two years af ter its submission. The new deal may Include a naval building program. The first feeler toward that has been put out by Floor Leader Ralncy in the house. Ho wrote Secretary of Navy Adams asking how much It would cost to build up to our treaties. Adams gave him an extensive reply. . There are other Indications that Roosevelt feels the next step to ward disarmament Is for us to build some ships. Then our competitors win be more willing to disarm. It Is a Mills family secret that Treasury Secretary Ogden O. must spent two weeks of every year in California. Tho stipulation was made in his father's will. That is one of the main reasons he Is going nome with Mr. Hoover, He got m the two weeks last year during the campaign. Apparently his rather thouRht LUDEN'S SECRET FORMULA fiQuicket vvuun RELIEF For3) yearsithashelprd millions ana vau naa ic oaiy in i L Luden a, r highly of the California sunshine. They say ho might have also speci fied Florida except that only demo crats were allowed there then. It is the weather and not the Chinese which Is holding the Japs back In Jchol right now. That Is why you have seen few dispatch:s regarding Japanese military activ ities. They use water-cooled ma chine guns and tanks which cannot operate efficiently in sub-zero tem perature. Democrats in congress are al ready beginning to split Into blocs. Inflationists are one group work ing ardently to kill the Roosevelt economy program They think the way to future success lies In the op posite direction. They know gov ernment cuts will postpone the day of their dreams. A senator is supposed to have told Sergt.-at-Arms Barry how he could have slipped off scott-free. He suggested Barry write a con fidential letter to each of the 96 senators announcing that he would ten ail ne know. Tne senator prom ised there would not be a quorum present to vote on tne Barry case. You are supposed to laugh at that. It is a joke, not a- fact. President Wilson's former physi cian, Dr. Cary Grayson, Is the one who has kept Senator Glass waver ing about acceptance ot the treas ury post. They are good friends. Dr. Grayson is not exactly pleased witn tne senators pnysical condi tion. He has the approval of the Glass family in arguments he has made . Thch trouble with the Senate in the Barry case was that the men who Uye by criticizing others can't laice K tnemseives . . . After hear ing all the charges they heap upon cueir enemies and eacn otner you would be surprised to leam how thin-skinned thev actually are. par ticularly to press an editorial cri ticism . . , Senator Borah Is an ex ception ... He believes those who live by the sword should expect to die Dy u ana once said: "in tne verbal encounters of this world, I am willing to undertake my own defense courts are too busy and too slow." . . . Congressman Ludlow, author of the current book attack ing Federal Bueorucrocy, introduced a bill the very first day he came to Congress proposing to make it a federal offense to put lead slugs In slot machines. D, ORTLAND offers NOTHING FINER IN HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS rrt -ss - 1he hotel multnomah is Portland' largest hotel, located only 3 blocks from the leading banki and tores, yet out of the noisy traffic New modern furnl ture, new equipment, new decorations. . Excellent dining room, cafeteria and coffee ihop. Popular prices. Garage across the street! attendants at the door . Lobby pipe organ concert every evening. RATES FROM 11.1 DETACHEO BATH I.M WITH BATH HOTEL MULTNOMAH reiruHi, omion ByTalburt REAL LIFE FILM NEXT OFFERING; STANWYCK DUE Contending once again that the masses must have shows which come within the reilm of their own every day experiences, First Na tional again enters the cinema lists with a "down-to-earth", "life-as-it-is-lived" candidate for screen fame. The entry is "Employees' Entrance," featuring Warren William, Loretta Young, the "coming-back" Alice White, and Wallace Ford, which Is coming Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to the Warner Bros. Capitol theater. Concerned principally with execu tives and more important employees, "Employees' Entrance" stages a pan oramic view of the thousands en gaged in securing their livelihood from a large city's largest depart ment store, doing business by the hundred million dollars a year. "Employees' Entrance" also lists in its cast, the buyers, models, clerks and secretaries, portrayed variously by Loretta Young, and Alice White, who appears on the screen for the first time In two years. Prank Relcher, Ruth Don nelly, Marjorle Gateson, Zlta Moul ton, Charles Sellon, Allen Jenkins, and others, The staging of an attempted pris on '.'break" forms, an unusually thrilling sequence in the Warner Bros, picture, "Ladles They Talk About," starring Barbara Stanwyck, which opens at Warner Bros. EIsl nore theater Wednesday. The story Is a realistic picture of life in the women's ward of San Quentin prison, with a glowing ro mance involving the infatuation of a fighting evangelist for the girl bandit. The screen play by Sydney Sutherland and Brown Holmes is based on the play by Dorothy Mac kaye and Carlton Miles, it pictures the experiences of Miss Mackaye when a prisoner in "San Quentin, where she was sent after the tragic death of her husband. Others In the cast include Preston S. Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Bur gess, Lillian Roth, Maude Eburne, Harold Huber and Ruth Donnelly. I JLi ;A Yniir I - liVfj Photograph -f5 8x10 nm mi TrumfiSif "Ti l hi m inn i Witt ' NEW STUDIO SlfP KENNELL-ELLIS 420 Oregon Bldg. RELIEF BOARD ORGANIZES TO SPEED PROGRAM Members of the state-wide relief committee appointed recently by Governor Meier under an act of the present legislature, met all day to consider various problems having to do with the general relief program. Raymond Wilcox ot Portland, chair man, presided. The committee indorsed the food conservation program and the ef forts of the Oregon building con- gross to crcat work for the unem ployed through self liquidating pro jects. It 'was recommended that each of the county committees In elude one woman. F. O. Croxton presented a letter authorizing the use ot reconstruc tion finance corporation funds in providing garden seed for the regis. tered unemployed. Wilcox said that wmie the committee had requested additional federal funds to cover relief demands for March and April he was not in a position to divulge the amount of money involved untU the application has been acted upon in wasnington. Considerable thought is now be ing given to tho selection of the county committees, Wilcox declared He said these committees would be composed of seven members, three of whom will be selected by the county courts. The remaining four members will be appointed by the governor, wncox declared that the relief committee would cooperate with the governor in selecting these persons. "There Is rather too much com placency In the thought that having passed house bill No. 109, providing for a small appropriation for the expenses of the state relief com mittee, that five or six million dol lars or any other large amount can be definitely counted upon from the reconstruction finance corpora tion," Wilcox continued. There is no definite assurance that this money can be obtained and there still remains the obliga tion of the state to the unemployed. The state relief committee repeats its former recommendation that there be Included In any revenue bill passed by this legislature a reasonable per cent for unemploy ment relief, the committee announ ced. DRUM CORPS TO RESUME DRILLING After a rest of a few months, the national championship drum corps of Capital post No. 9 American Le gion, will get back into the harness March 1 to get Itself in shape for tile season which includes the state convention In Klamath Falls and the national convention in Chicago early In the fall. Rudy Schultz, dl rector and Instructor, will come here from Portland at this time for full tune instruction, it was announced at a meeting ot the post Monday nignt. Membership continues to be problem and two teams will be placed In the field under the direc tion of Allan Carson, post comman der and William Biiven, post adju tant. All past post commanders and adjutants hare been requested to meet Wednesday evening in Bliv- en's office at the Masonic temple building to outline plans for the drive. Appointment of a speakers' bur eau, to provide speakers for patri otic and other occasions was au thorized Monday night and the per sonnel will be made public in a few days by Commander Carson. Veter ans of Foreign Wars were special guests at the post meeting with a varied musical program a feature of the evening. REVIVAL CAMPAIGN OPENS Independence Revival meetings began at the Baptist church Mon day evening with Rev. W. Earle Cochrane of the Calvary Baptist church of Salem as evangelist. Spe cial music win be given each evening by a cnorus choir. A good attend ance is desired. BOHANNON VERY ILL Independence J. S. Bohannon is critically ill at his home in this city The picture was directed by How ard Brethertnn nrtA William TTaIitTi ley. each As many M yoa wkfa ttSOewck. Beautifully hxnd . colored In oil " EACH and grave fears are held for his re covery. Bohannon underwent a ser ious operation last fall and has gradually been losing strength since that time, although for a time It was thought he would get better following the operation. His family and neighbors are In constant at tendance at his bedside. POLICE CARS TO SECURE RADIOS Installation of the short wave broadcasting station and the equip ping of six police cars with receiv ers will be completed within the next 10 days, Chief of Police Frank Mlnto stated today. The equip mcnt was assured Monday night when the city council appropriated $300 out of the emergency fund with which to match $400 raised by the police department. The total of 700 will not entirely finance the transmitter and receivers but the balance is expected to be available by the time the set has been in stalled. One substantial donation from a business firm has been prom ised Chief Mlnto while others are expected to follow. The value of radio In handling crime was emphasized Monday by Chief L. V. Jenkins of Portland during a talk before the Salem chamber of commerce. He said the running time of traffic cars in an swering calls had been cut from 30 minutes under the old system to a fraction of a minute through the use of radio. Installation of radio cars here will make It possible to put an additional irainc orticer on the street dur ing the day, Chief Mlnto states. PEDDLER'S BILL TO BE SAFEGUARDED Fears thai-. itltfrnnl.lnnal mmnll. cations would result from a clause in a peddler's bill now before the hOUSe agricultural frmmlrn mum dispelled when the committee today umiuuiicea it naa stricKen tne pro vision from the measure. It WOUlH hflVA nrnvlriori a (IRA a year tax on Oriental farmers, while taxing white truck-gardeners only $1 a year. The measure is intended to regulate dumping of garden pro ducts into the state by growers irom other states. On aCCOUnt nf Rf.mlnPfl rMnfinn between Japan and the United States, the Portland chamber of commerce attacked the clause be cause it would drive Japanese gar deners out of business in Oregon, they said. EVANS VALLEY HELPS Victor Pnlnfc A orrmn rvf unto. talners from the Evans Valley com- i munity will visit the Viator Point j Parent-Teachers meeting Friday nieht And will occicK n,lth fV n..n gram being arranged by Mrs. M. M. uiimour ana committee. REMODELING BUILDING "A GREATER SHIPLEY'S Practically every department will be effected bv this remodeling activity. We want to clean out every bit of mercnanuise possioie ana as eacn department's time comes we will place special prices on the merchandise - In that department to dear it out before the carpen ters start. v It will be a little noisy and somewhat littered up around the store but we will make np for Inconven ience you may experience by giving you especially low prices. Watch the advertisements each day every day will see new special prices. Wednesday Remodeling Specials Rayon Slips Plain and bias cut. Pink, Peach or White. Values to 95c to sell at each 39c or 3for$l Rayon Gowns Lace trim with ribbon tiebacks. Pink or Peach. They usually sell up to $1.95. Special to clear out $1.48 Crepe Gowns The cream of the de partm e n t Beautiful crepe de chine gowns tailored and lace trim med. Unusual quality, In fact they were formerly priced up to $6.95. Your choice while they last $3.95 We found a lot of odds and ends that we are going to clear out quickly, there are rayon bloomers, vests and slips. You may take your choice at 29c each, or BUILDING A GREATER SHIPLEY'S STORE PLAN TO RELIEVE FARM DEBTORS ON MORTGAGES Portland, Feb. 21 (P) Operating on the theory ot "applied Christian ity" and on the premise that many mortgages can be re-written at a lower rate of Interest to the benefit of both mortgagor and mortgagee, the state mortgage adjustment com mittee met In conference here Mon day to forestall such a situation as has developed in the middle west. The purpose of the organization Is to effect amicable agreements be tween farmers threatened with mortgage foreclosures, and mortgage holders. Forty volunteer workers from Columbia, Clackamas, Clatsop, Hood River, Washington, Yamhill and Multnomah counties met In the conference. A similar meeting was set for to day at Medford, and one will be held Thursday at Arlington, and Friday at Baker, "Just a little applied Christianity, that's our goal," Said O. M. Plum mer, chairman of the committee. "It will be a case of getting the bor rower and the lender together and doing what we can In the way of adjustments that will rebond to the benefit of botn." One application for readjustment has already been received In Mult nomah county. These applications are made through the secretaries of the several county committees after they have been turned into the of fice of the county agricultural agent. CLEVELANDS ARE HOME Liberty Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cleve land and son returned home from Mount Shasta, Calif., Saturday, where they were called by the Ill ness and death or Mrs. w. F. Wright, grandmother of Mrs. Cleve land. They were accompanied by Mrs. Mildred Rogers and Mrs. Mabel Comstock, sisters of Mrs. Cleveland. The trip was made by motor and , much snow was encountered in the mountains. At Mount Shasta there was three feet of snow. Tiresfone Wholesale Prices at R. D. Woodrow Service Station 619 Court St. Phone 3773 SALE AT1UZ ON I -STORE" Rayon Pajamas bloomers end gowns. These garments sell reg ularly up to $1.95. Re modeling sale price each C9c or 3 for $1.95 Silk Crepe Slips Informal slips, dance sets, panties and gowns. Beautifully embroidered and lace trimmed. They eeH ordinarily up to $3.95. Remodeling sale price $1.95 Gowns & Pajamas Orepe de Chino embroi dered gowns and paja mas. Exceptionally fine quality. They sold up to $456. Choice on these odd ones left $2.95 4 FOR $1.00 TIRES W
