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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON RIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936 CapitaUjJoinial Salem, Oregon ESTABLISHED MARCH t. 1M Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 ChemekeU Street Telephone Business Office 1471 New Room JS7J: Society Editor U71 QEOROB PUTNAM. tVLL LEASED WIRE SERVICE Of THE ASSOCIATED TRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES t BY CARRIER 10 cent a week; 4ft cenu l month; $5.00 year In advance BY MAIL in Marlon Polk. Una Yamhill. Benton. Clackamae and Lincoln eounuea: One month 60 eenU; I monthi tl-35: $ month 12.23; I rear (4 00 Elsewhere so cent a month; I monthi $3.75: W OO a yeai In advance The Associated Press to exclusively entitles to the we for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news published herein. Evading Responsibility Asserting that "logging trucks are wrecking Douglas county bridges almost faster than they can be kept up," the roadmaster of that county makes a plea for greater financial assistance from the state highway commission in maintain ing county roads. The situation is not peculiar to Douglas county, nor is the plea for more liberal state assistance original with the Douglas county roadmaster. All of the counties, especially , those in western Oregon are in the same predicament. But solution of the problem does not lie in further diversion of state highway funds from vitally needed construction to local maintenance. . The remedy exists in one of three reforms or a combina tion of them: 1. Heavier construction of roads and bridges. , 3. stricter limitation of loads and speeds. 2. Increased license fees and taxes on certain types of trucks to oring their contributions to road maintenance up to a figure proportion ate to the damage they do to the roads, coupled with a system which will make these Increased revenues available directly to the governmental agency responsible for the maintenance of the roads used. The Douglas county court has full, authority to correct the condition of which its roadmaster complains. Under the law it may "sign" its bridges for safe loads and enforce such ' restrictions. The county court is required by statute to recommend to the public utilities commissioner, at the time a log hauler applies for a permit to operate on county roads, the load limit, speeds and other granting the permit. If such restrictions are not observed by the hauler the county court may recommend to the utilities commissioner that the permit be cancelled, and the commissioner has no choice other than to order the cancellation. The county court and its engineers should know what loads and speeds various local roads and bridges will with stand with safety and without undue damage. The chief difficulty lies in the fact that these officials are too subservi ent to local pressure and influence and do not impose suffi ciently drastic restrictions or enforce those which they do impose. There is no equity in a system which subsidizes the log haulers at the expense of the motorists of the state. When local officials complain of such conditions as this and seek to shift the burden of subsidizing local industry to ., the state at large they are simply seeking to dodge their own responsibilities. Coming from Douglas county, which has benefited, from greater state highway expenditures than any other county in the state and still clamors incessantly for more, the suggestion is conceived in poor grace. Douglas county is decidedly out of order in proposing any plan that will curtail needed highway construction in other counties which have contributed cheerfully and far more generously than it has itself to its nine million dollar network of state highways, while those counties are still waiting for their share of road funds. . Refreshing Frankness Gregory Zinovieff, one of the original leaders of the Bol heviki when under Lenin they seized power in Russia by revolution, in his court confession of a bloody conspiracy to assassinate Josef Stalin and return to power through terror ist methods, declared : . I went all the way from opposition party power to counter-revolution and terrorism and actually fascism. The evolution of our struggle to regain power naturally led to terrorism. Leon Kameneff, another Lenin leader, admitted that a blood-thirsty lust for personal power motivated the conspira tors, adding "naturally political groups deprived of power feel their policies are superior" and that the plot for terror ism was a desperate effort to regain lost power. Such frankness is refreshing, for these are the motives and methods of all dictators and would-be dictators and those who ruthlessly seize power, from the earliest recorded his tory down to date. Political theories are simply camouflage for popular support for the will to power over blood-stained trails. Terrorism is a primitive weapon but has been openly adopted and become part of the philosophy of both fascism and communism. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in Russia seized and maintain ed power by just such ruthlessness; Mussolini's rise to power was over the assassinated bodies of his opponents and his path to glory entails the slaughter of millions; Hitler's as cension was by similar terrorism and possible rivals are elim - inated in blood purges and pogroms. In the long run most of such paranoica! dictators are destroyed by their own meth ods just as the gangsters and racketeers whose methods they have appropriated. Chaos Would Result If Governor Landon should be elected president, political chaos would result, for both the senate and the house will be democratic. In the last congress out of 435 house members, 315 were democrats and only 104 republicans. In the senate there were 70 democrats and only 23 republicans. The demo crats can lose many members of the house and still have a working majority. Democratic control of the senate is cer tain for another four years. Even if a radical bloc Is elected to hold the balance of power in the next house, it will not go along with Landon and the senate would hold veto power on all measures. It would be a leaderless conflict on both sides resulting in con fusion. The Landon program, if any, would get nowhere. There is no possibility of a Landon landslide. In the 1932 election, democrats won 1454 counties out of 1300 west of the Mississippi, which means that the majority of county officials, who really deliver the votes, are democrats. In 1934 the democrats made enormous gains, the republicans electing only nine governors. In the recent primaries New Deal can didates have emerged victorious, while the registration fig ' ures show great increase in democratic voters all over the country. Despite the fake straw votes; which do not reach tht rank and file, the betting odds favor Roosevelt and will con. , tinut to and will grow heavier as th campaign swings into action as the realization gains that Landon election would "De iUl to progreu, , Editor end Publisher restrictions to be imposed in Big Business II' ' ... m Ji 5. OISCOURASED. LAOS. ) LS . V. I'LL HOLD BACK A V- Tr- ' LITTLE NEXT MONTH )'', T" -tlS?-- ( AND OIVE YOU ALL ffWM s"iV -""fl TfSV' rAKE 17 ' "PfflflAG IT in' y0Ht" . vT T-J News Behind The News By Paal Mallon Washington, Aug. SI President Roosevelt scooped his diplomatists completely when he decided the Spanish crisis was so c r 1 tical he would have to cut short his drought trip. His lads In charge of this end of the Spanish show had not heard of anything going to happen in Spain between September 3 and 11 whirl, a'Aiilrl ''' require Mr. Roose velt's presence at his desk. You would think, In a situation like that, they would run around and try to find out what was up, or, at least, put on their gravest faces. All they did was to sit around and laugh. .... T Background The Spanish crisis was so dire two weeks ago that State Secretary Hull decided to take a vacation. Recent developments have been so alarming that, upon the day the president made his an nouncement, Mr. Hulls office said the secretary planned to remain away another week, lolling In the beautiful hills of western Virginia. Likewise, modern communications methods keep the president Just about as weU informed In mid-ocean, or at Hyde Park, as In the White House. Wired and wireless tele phones are kept constantly open. In the Ethiopian crisis, he made his major move, in the form of the arms embargo, from a battleship in the Pacific. Earlier, he made his historic statement, breaking up the unsatisfactory London economic conference, from a yacht In the At lantic. Observers closest to the diplomatic inside also agree that Under-Secretary Phillips will probably handle any Spanish crisis no matter where Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull are. He has been handling It right along. Throat Diplomacy The rumors now current that the president has information Indicating a general European crisis early In September, therefore, do not appear to be Justi fied. The way the lads at the helm size up the situation is this: Mussolini might be madman enough to start a war. but they do not believe It. They would set the odds anywhere from 10 to 1 to 100 to 1 that he will not. The game he is playing Is obvious to them. It Is the same one he used against Prance in the Ethiopian crisis, the threat-fear game to keep Franre quiet. That explains to them why he Is always Inspiring belligerent press dispatches from Rome. While any situation like this in Europe I serious. It Is not neces sarily grave. Nationalistic diplomacy of all European nations has prob ably overrmphaslrrd the possibilities of aar In the public mind. Whimsy The more logical expla nation for Mr. Roosevelt's decision wss offered hy one of his saee coun Seat's peim SATOTBDAY, ;tnfl 9 o'cllocEs OEARO, nOEDUCK Ct CO. U STATE STREET . . . sellors here, who told an alarmed group of callers: "I do not know how true it is. but I have heard there Is a political campaign going on." The president enjoys nothing more than a little whimsy now and then. A number of his advisors told him from the start that his protracted itinerary on the drought trip was needless, econo mically, administratively or politi cally, because there Is nothing out standing he can do about it more than has already been done. The Spanish crisis, therefore, may prove to be more of a handy excuse than a danger. Preparations Largest arms pur. chaser here during July was i country of which Americans rarely hear, the Dutch East Indies. Licen ses for the export of 1 ,400,000 of war materials were issued to that Netherlands possession by the state department. No one here had any previous notion that the Dutch East Indies were getting ready to go to war with anyone. The answer Is Britain and the Shell Oil company. Oil Is what runs battleships. The Dutch fields are largely under control of the British. In case of trouble in the far east, they would be the center of dispute between the Japanese and British fleets. .; The newly purchased "munitions" are really military flying boats. These are to patrol the coast line, which covers 49 degrees of longi tude, a distance as great as from New York to San Francisco. U. S. Intelligence authorities have heard that East Indians have been having trouble with Japanese fish ing boats, similar to that In and around the Philippines. Japanese fishermen are always coming In, mapping and sounding the harbors. ' Note Second largest domestic arms purchaser was China. She bought 1800,000 worth of military plane engines, gun racks, etc, HOP PICKER FINED FOR LICENSE LACK Independence George McCrea. who Is employed on construction work near Helmick park and whose family Is picking hops at the Homer Wood yard, was arrested on Wed nesday by state police for operating a motor vehicle without an oper ator's license. McCrea had driven the car from Washington without any license on the car, but was car rying a receipt showing he had lelt the money for a license with an in surance company there to purchase for him. He never had had a license to operate. He has a wife and four children and claims he is Just get ting by on 90 cents an hour besides his family wages In the hop yard He was ordered to put the car up until his Washington license arrived and to purchase an Oregon opera tor license, and was fined is and costs in the local JusUce court. Leave Drought Area, Will Live at Gates Gates Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Oliver and five children from the drought area of the Dakota, have purchas ed and are now established at the farm formerly owned by Mrs. Velma White cast of Gates. The Oliver family are delighted with the country. Mrs. White and her family have moved to Mill City to make their mldenre SALEM. OREGON WCaiMaJoii7nal Vol. Aye! Rahlly now! Say did I bring back a "ripping accent from the English city, Vancouver, B. C. But give me Sa lem over any of the - many cities visited on my re cent vacation tour. Cete Cohen, M.nrle Saffron, Amie Maizels, and myself made the trip. Z.G.N. "ZOLLIE" This is being scribbled before the Olympics and picnic, which Is being held at Oiin ger today. Therefore, all announce ments of prize winner will be made in tomorrow's Capital Journal. Z.O.N. The coolest spot in town. The Grand theatre Is Just that. My boss, Mr. Schmidt has had an all new cooling system - installed. You can feel the fresh cool air floating all around. What a pleasure! Z.G.N. Kids! Can you believe this? I wouldn't have nine weeks Ago, but it's the truth. Each Saturday, the Grand has been completely filled by 1 o'clock. People are kidding me that we should set up a tent on the Court house lawn to take care of the over flow. .... You've been so swell about the way you have been attending that I promise you you'll always find the best show in toun at the mat inee. Z.G.N. Uncle Brad says: 'A lot o' people who boast o' havin' an open mind mistake a vacancy for an opening." Z.G.N, I'm betting we'll huve one of our largest turnouts tomorrow. Cause look at the line-up for the show: On the screen, Harold Lloyd in "The Cat's Paw," another chapter of "The Fighting Marines." and a mu sical merriment of fun Alice Faye, Ted Healy. Patsy Kelly, plus a host of other favorites In "Sing Baby Sing." " The stage broadcast will feature talented Lucille Shannon, who has Just returned from a tour of vaude-' ville, Estella Rorabaugn, Cleve Bart- lett, Frances Hope Kring, Ethyl Mae Williams, Ada Jean Lama, Doris Vincent, Dale Basset, and Gordon Winchcomb, puphs of Prlscilla Mel- singer, the Leslie trio, Brad Collins and all the boys. Z.G.N. , Don't pass up a good time. Be at the matinee at 12:30. ' So long. ZOLLIE. Gang Band Nearly Ready to Practice "Zollie's Bang" members will soon be "tootln their own horns." The band, which is belnj organized by Doug Jaquith, of the .laqulth Music Co., will be ready to start very shortly now. If you haven't registered as yet, do so immediately. There will be no charge for instruction, but your own instrument must be furnished. STATE COSTS GO UP $400,000 BIENNIUM 8tate requirements, under the budget for the next biennium, cov ering supplies, materials and other commodities, will total $400,000 more than the past two years, Dan Fry. state purchasing agent, esti mated today. Fry based his estimate on steadily rising prices, which, he said, were already more than 10 per cent greater than two years ago. As a result of the increasing com modity prices officials said It was doubtful if any Important capital tutlays would be recommended at the next legislature. Capital outlays Include construction of new build ings and Improvement to the ex isting state plants. Spain's last royal ruler," Alfonso XIII. was horn a kins UK liVVVERBR,ES " The ideal vacation by rail and water...to Victoria and Vancou- I ver on a luxurious 'Princess" liner.. .by train fhrough tfi magniV nl Canadian Rocliej. to picturesque Calgary , end home, making comptttt eircfe lour, wllh ntw ihriIs every Jay Stop over where you wtih...e Vancouver's Golden Jubilee from , July 1st to September 7th... Dine and dance at Banff Spring Hotel and Chateau Lake Louiie. two world fanud i 1 O . m r? mounra . $W gjC ptomhi 6 Salem, Oregon. Friday, Aug. 21. I93B I BACK TO REJOIN "GANG" I 1 Lucille Shannon, "Gang" memDer, wno nas recently returned tn SAlem -nfri n tour in vaudeville. This ex ceptionally talented contor tionist will appear on the "Zollie's Capital Journal Gang" program at the Grand theatre tomorrow. Saturday Last Day To Register With Zollie's Uketeers Saturday will be tne last chance to sign up for the "Zollie's Uketeers," which will begin rehearsal Wednes day, August 26, at the Prlscilla Mel slnger studio, located at 1032 Oak street. Be sure to be there promptly at four o'clock for your first lesson. Additional members registering were Wallace Smith, Bobby Over, Dorothy Eyerly, Anita Faye Hogue, Glen Alsman, Harold Reld, Mildred Lee, Carrie Cagswell, Marian Stepa neck, Betty Oraham, Carleen Akers, Robert Grltton, Ann Foster, Ruth Barton, Mlrzel Mohr, Edith Mohr, Ruth Ostrln, Thelma Smith and Louis Peterson, Selection of Best Dancer Impossible Because of the size oi the dancing classes, it will be impossible to select the one making the most advance ment during Mrs. Collins' course. Inasmuch as many of you are inter ested in securing the Barnes Schol arship, it will be awaraed In a danc ing contest to be held during Sep tember. This will be open to all "Zol lie's Gang" members. Throughout the course. Mrs. Brad Collins did not lose one pupil. Wandering Quartet Of "Gangsters" Back Four of our wandering boys are home! Bill DeSouza, Roger Miller, Bob Yeager and Marion Draper, all well known to "Gang" members, have Just returned from a summer's vacation in Marshfielo. The vaca tion Included playing in a band while in the southern city. Bill, Roger and Bob will Join up with the "Gang's" entertainers. Ma rlon Is not definite as to his plans. They all intend to enter Willamette In the fall. Comes from Nevada On Business Trip Sllverton Mrs. Nona Mount Kin ney of Fallon. Nev., accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Guy Mount, of Oregon City, was in Sllverton over the weekend attending to business affairs and visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Wolfard, and with Mrs. Helen M. Wrightman. Mrs. Kinney Is much Improved in health. She was unable to make the trip to Sllverton In May to atttend the funeral cervices of her mother, Mrs. Rebekah Mount. 81ie returned to her home in Ne vada the middle of the week but plans to establish her home in Ore gon Clty AT ELK LAKE Aurora Miss Martha Frances Bradtl is spending the summer at Elk lake, occuplng the Laura Bair cottage. Miss Bradtl's grandmother. Mr. William Knight ot Canby. will spend several weeks with her. -1 J resort Play mile-high goll en chant "I8 "course. fth In well-stocked lakes and is; swim tn warm sulphur water pools, go ding and hiking over mountain trails. Sum travel fares are now at feu-esl -cost, and if hi will call our offices, we will be glad to assist tn making an tnteieittng Itinetary. 'w. . wvmm. m mn itn, h w jlliiliM.lW.)rMlMl?li-l- z fsr t v" . MtMM Mttm rtvmin h ; A Sheriff to Award Soft-Ball Trophy Sheriff Burk of Marlon County will appear on the "Zollie's Gang" show tomorrow at tne Grand. No, not to close It, but to present the trophy he is awarding to the most outstanding player of "Zollie's Capi tal Journal Gang" soft ball league. The Stevens-Brown wrist watch will also be awarded to the winning captain, Saturday. Prize Winner DOROTHY CLARK Who lives at 545 Court street, with the wrist watch presented to her b.T S. E. Keith of Miller's for having the best scrap book of notes concerning the "Gang" clipped from the Capital Jour- MANY PETITION FOR DIRK DEJONGE PARDON Pleas urging the pardon of Dirk Dejonge. Portland, and Edward Denny, Eugene, from the state pen itentiary, have come to the execu tive office by the hundreds. Govern DU BAIN "SALEM S OH'iV Room. I and Miller's -ftfc" ' i ' ( Ss! Vi f-t ti 9T'kTJVt No. 7 Sport Slants By Mendy In the only ball game to be play ed last week, the undefeated Cardi nals won from the Yanks by the score of 11-3. Prizes were numerous and the lucky winners were BUI La cey, George Hochstettler, Albert Al ley, Eugene Jarvls, bill Kelso and Francis Douglas. The prize that went to the out- I standing player of the, week was awarded to George Hochstettler, with a bat from Anderson's Sporting Gooes store, as the gift. Tomorrow winds up the "Zollie's Capital Journal Gang" softball lea gue with the presentation of the tro phy to the outstanding player of the league by Sheriff Burk, also the presentation of the watch to the captain of the championship team. Other awards will be ribbons which will be presented to members of the winning team So long, MENDY. '-" Scrapbook Clipped " By Dorothy Clark Best, Judges Find One hundred and one scrapbooks of "Zollie's Capital Journal Gang" news were handed In last Saturday. Out of these Brad Coilms, and wife, Jane, had to select the best -and most complete book. Finally It nar rowed down to eighteen, and from ' amongst these they selected Dorothy Clark, who lives at 545 Court street, as the member winning the wrist watch, awarded by Miller's Depart ment store. ; ,- Honorable mention goes to Lucile Boehringer, 260 W. Wilson. Shirley McLeod. 148 E. Millor, Dora Blair, 173 S. Cottage, Iola Rutherford, 3104 Broadway, Alice Flagg, 1845 Berry, Vivian Lucas, 139 8. Liberty,. Bar bara Hathaway, 1140 Market,' Carl Raetz, Rt. 6, Box 643. Alma Merk, Rt. 2, Box 64, Marybelle Yantis, 26S S. 21st, Dorothy Kastei, 445 Gerth, Patricia Sears, 1885 Saginaw, Ger trude Kuhn, 571 Gerth, Ernestine Loveland, 260 Strand. Arlene Oden borg, 260 Strand, Jean Duval, 1148 Mill, and Barbara Colgan of Jeffer son. Get your scissors out and start clipping today, for tne second part of the contest. Another wrist watch will be awarded, as well as .your choice of a photograph of any enter tainer of the "Gang." This next group must be handf-d in Saturday, October 31. Any "gang' member may start saving a scrapbook for the con test. .. Miller's have a picture of Dorothy Clark in their window, and all the honorable mention books. BEST KNOCK-KNOCKER Who's there? Knock, knock! it's Marylee McGuire, of 1905 Maple ave nue, first prize winner of our recent contest of this "evil." She had 37 knockles written out for the compe tition. PRIZE WINNERS Prize winners at last Saturday's matinee were Gertrude Kuhn, 571 Gerth Ave., West Salem, Betty Jean Wilson, 1220 8. Commercial street, and Leona Belle Wallace, 310 S. 33rd. or Martin said today. Dejonge is serving seven years and Denny too, for violation of the criminal syndicalism law. Most of the appeals came from members of an Oregon communist organization, the governor said. Two Kansans are presidential nominees in the 1938 race Gover nor Alt M. Landon, republican, and Ear! Browder. communist. OUR FUR W CREATIONS have made the Salem ladies -style-minded., i Because of unusually low prices for exceptionally high grade furs and workmanhtp. Mr. DuBsln. who personally supervises the making of ev ery garment tailored to your Individual measure and per sonality, la able to create and ell furs at prices you cannot duplicate anywhere. Yon ore cordially invit ed to inspect our Fall Showing for Fur models All Work Guaranteed Mrs. Ed. Leoae, Rt. I, Salem. Ilt.oe credit en a Fur Coat. FUR CO. FIR STORE" Store Bldg. -mm A lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
