THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, APRTL 21. lf),.7
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Drastic Economy the Answer
The president's budget message indicating that the gov
ernment will go $418,000,000 further into the red for the 1938
fiscal year, the eighth successive year of federal deficits,
ought to convince congress and the country of the necessity
of economy as well as of additional taxation to balance the
budget.
Mr. Roosevelt has promised economy before but it has
never materialized. There is organized pressure all along the
line to defeat it, among department heads and bureaucrats,
among congressmen who have organized blocs to increase
expenditures, among governors of states and mayors of cities
Intent on making Uncle Sam pay their bills and shoulder the
relief burdens that belong to localities.
The emergency that justified these mammoth expendi
tures is passing. Hut each year sees their costs increased and
new costly programs added. Their continuance will mean
eventually inflation and national bankruptcy and leave the
nation in worse shape than ever before.
A period of severe pruning is justified. All appropria
tions should be trimmed 10 percent. Such costly experimental
programs as farm tenancy calling for $135,000,000, education,
$100,000,000, low cost housing $30,000,000, crop insurance
$100,000,000, flood control, $550,000,000, should be modified,
postponed or dropped altogether, even though desirable and
pet projects of the administration.
Conditions, not theories, govern the situation. An un
balanced budget means loss of public confidence. The reduced
treasury balance, the mounting deficits, the weakened bond
market supported only by the treasury, the forced borrowing
program of $50,000,000 a week indefinitely, which will drive
the national debt beyond the $35,000,000,000 mark within a
month, all indicate too plainly the national drift toward inflation.
Let s See if it Works
Pending practical experience with them in actual use, the
city should go slow in establishing and marking parallel parK
Ine zones on the downtown streets, because of serious ques
tion as to whether they are to accomplish the object for which
they are intended.
When traffic engineers for the Btate highway depart
ment drew up the model control system at the city's request
they included parallel parking zones on some of the narrower
streets for the accommodation of four traffic lanes to facili
tate the free movement of traffic along the center lanes and
provide space in the outside lanes where cars might stop mo
mentarily to load and unload passengers without blocking or
Infringing upon this free center flow.
To make this theory work, however, cars must be per
mitted to stop in the outside lanes only momentarily. Other
wise there will be constant encroachment into the center lane
by vehicles seeking to pass others standing in the outside
lanes.
Judging from the experience of motorists during the
past few days in experimenting with the difficult feat of
parking their cars in the stalls painted parallel to the curb, it
is doubtful if the plan is going to work In reducing obstruc
tion of the outside lanes. It is a difficult feat for the inex
perienced driver to jockey and back his car into position for
, nuch a landing, hard on the fenders of his own and other
parked cars and the time consumed operates seriously to
block traffic in the outside lanes.
The system should not be condemned until it has been
Riven a fair trial. But before it is extended its success in ex
pediting traffic movement should be carefully checked
against results where the simpler head-in parking is in use.
If it does not result in relieving congestion it should be aban
doned for angular parking, which accommodates nearly twice
as many cars to the block.
The Coronation Ode
John Masefield, Britain's poet laureate, has written a
onnet as a coronation ode to commemorate the crowning of
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Perhaps the lame and
halting verse is fully up on the greatness of the occasion, but
it seems to echo the decadence of poetry.
The poet laureate is a medieval institution just as the
coronation itself is. Chaucer was the first to assume the title
and in 1389 was given an annual grant of wine by Richard II.
James I made the allowance 100 marks and Charles I increased
it to 100 pounds per annum, with a tierce of wine thrown in.
On Southeys appointment the wine was commuted for 27
pounds. The first poet laureate in the modern sense was Ed
mund Spenser. Ben Jonson was the first to receive the office
by formal letters patent. The list of poets laureate comprises:
Edmund Spenser 1591-9; Samuel Daniel 1599-1610; Ben Jonson 1619
37; William Davrnant 16C0-8; John Dryden 1670-88; Thomas Shadwell
1689-92; Nahum Tato 1692-1715; Nicholas Rowe 1715-18; Lawrence Ems
den 1718-30; Collcy Clbber 1730-57; William Whitehead 1727-85; Thomas
Warton 1785-90; Henry James Pye 1790-1813; Robert Southey 1813-43;
William Wordsworth 1843-50; Alfred Tennyson 1850-92; Allred Austin
1896-1918; Robert Bridges 1913-1030; John Masefield 1930
The names of half a dozen of the poets laureate are fa
miliar to us today and their works have a permanent place in
literature, though their official productions have long since
been forgotten. The balance rest in oblivion. Many of Eng
land's greatest poets never received the honor, among them
Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley and Kipling, all of whom were
designedly discriminated against. But compare, if there is a
comparison, the "Recessional" of Kipling, written for the
Queen's jubilee, with Masefield's coronation ode written for
George VI:
You stand upon Uie highway of the sea.
Wherein the ships, your children come and t"
In splendor at the lull of every flow,
Rovuid to and from whatever ports may be.
Hirouirh this beginning relfm. for years to come.
May fortune set your lot In happy times:
Your aeaman saUit still marking, with his chlmea
Daily, some ship of yours returning home.
Though you are changed from what I once beheld:
Though your remembered hulls are with Hie coral:
I can not think upon your might unstirred.
O sacred city of the lost sea-bird
May wealth, our ransoming the porta of aid.
Be yours, with spiritual gold and holy laurel.
V
Life's Little Tragedies j
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RICHARD CW."? SCW0L
BRING THOSE
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Robin Reed Divorce
Case Airs Charges of
Alleged Cruelty to Wife
(Uontlnupd from ptR 1
lr. She &ald that after these in
cidents he was very repentant, ask
ed forgiveness and said there would
be no recurrence. She alleged he
was frequently Intoxicated and that
he vi.sited speakeasies, attended
parties and otherwise humiliated
her.
In his opening argument for the
defendant Reed, Custer E. Ross de
clared that Reed didn't claim he
was always free from fniilt as a
husband but he contended that all
the altercations elleerd were start-
BODY OF HOSPITAL
INMATE IN SLOUGH
The body of S. Damianion, 69,
state hospital inmate who was
among the patients on the hos
pital's Polk county farm, was found
In a slouuh on the farm todny. The
Polk county coroner was notified by
hospital authorities. He is said to
have committed suicide.
Damianion disappeared yesterday
and was believed to have wandered
away from the farm. The informa
tion was broadcast by the Salem
police radio and relayed by Port
land. The body was found by farm
workers.
Damianion was received at the
hospital from Portland May 18.
1936. He has a widow living in
Greece, according to hospital rec
ords.
HIGHWAY STORM
' DAMAGE $150,000
Storm damage to Oregon high
ways fell well within the expected
budget needs for such contingen
cies, the state highway department
reported today.
All damage from snow, slides, and
high water will not excepd $150,000.
the maintenance department esti
mated. Bicgest single item of ex
pense was snow removal in the Jan
uary snowstorms, when state equip
ment was pressed Into service clear
ing city streets.
Damage from last week's floods
was small, the department said
Shoulders were washed away at
several points of the Pacific high
way in the southern Willamette
valley but the balance of expense
was merely clearing slides on other
nigh ways.
PROCESSING TAX .
REFUNDS SOUGHT
Secretary of State Earl Snril to
day announced he was preparing
claims to recover approximately
$100,000 from the federal govern
ment in refunds of the processing
tax paid by the state under the de
funct AAA.
"There can be no question as to
the merit of this claim. " said Snell.
It appears that the state's insti
tutions have about $30,000 coming
to them, and the state relief com
mittee should get about the same
amount."
Divorce Decrees
(liven by Default
Seven default divorce decrees were
given in Judge Levelling 's court
yesterday afternoon, decrees being
granted in the following cases:
Kathleen Pio vs. Lester Pio:
Florence Ramsdel) ts. Lura Rams-
delt; Lora Turley vs. Edgar Walton
Turley; Lolabelle Foster vs. Wulte
A. Foster; Herman W. Fry vs. Fran
ce Fry; Louise B. Bneller vs. Clar
enc F. Bueller with stipulated
property settlement; Eva E. Dun
can vs. Jay E. Duncan. Modification
of the decree in the case of Helen
Armstrong vs. Tom Armstrong was
granted by reducing to $17.50
monthly psvment which previously
had been
ed. by the wife and not by himr-elf.
In one case, he declared, the de
fendant was attacked by his wife
when she was armed with a butcher
knife. He said the defendant ad
mitted he had been intoxicated buL
not frequently ' and that his wife
also had been intoxicated. In re
gard to a property settlement, said
Ross, he apprehended that was the
'real reason for the lawsuit. He said
Reed's net assets If he could realize
in their full value right now would
be $3,714.77 and (hat everything he
owned was encumbered, in fact he
had obligations of $29,20.1.17. Ho
said corporate stocks Reed held had
been given as security for debts.
Ross averred that the defendant
Reed does not want a divorce, that
he wants to maintain a home and
family. He said Mrs. Reed had
been hurt In an auto accident some
time ago and since then she had
been nervous and showed a Jcnlous
disposition.
"The parties stand equally before
the court as to who is at fault," he
asserted.
Custer Ross and Roy Hewitt, Sa
lem attorneys, are appearing for
Reed, and John H. Hall and Jay
Bowerman, Portland attorneys, for
Mrs. Reed.
Mrs. Reed asks $15,000 permanent
alimony, in addition to $75 a month
support money for the child and
S 1 000 in attorney's fees. She al
leged Reed's assets at from $40,000
to $50,000. Reed in his answer al
leeed that Mrs. Reed herself Is
worth $125,000. However, a demur
rer to his further and separate an
swer was sustained by the court
and his answer stood as a general
denial to the charges in her complaint.
Circuit Judge Lewelling is sitting
on tne case.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Mi
Washington. April 21 Politicos
decline to take seriously those two
surveys showing Postmaster General
r Farley as the most
popular choice for
T!l04O Rnmnhmii tha
political manag
ing end of Uiis
l presidential bust-
z ness has always
j been considered
eparate and en
t i r e 1 y distinct
from the offiw
holding end. Per
haps that old Idea
is founded on the
PALL MALLON supposition that
candidates must always be sinless,
while their managers are expected
to be capable of indiscretions.
Never the twain have met, but do
not be too sure they will not this
time.
For one thing, Postmaster Gen
eral Farley has not missed reading
those two surveys suggesting him
as the peoples man.
There are inner indications that
he has not taken the matter as
lightly as the old-time politicians
here, who, after all, are merely
thinking that, because it has never
been done before, it cannot be done
now. He has moved so genially and
quietly they do not realize the ex
tent of his personal friendships and
the fact that he is closer to the
president than any other possible
candidate yet suggested. Lately he
lias made more speeches for the
present's court plan and has
otherwise done more to put it over
than anyone else.
Continuation of
Father Divine
from page 1
of whom you speak."
Earlier, Madison had indicated
he expected to hear from Father
uivine:
"I wont tell you anything that
amounts to anything, and what
don't amount to anything I will tell
you, he said.
Green was stabbed while attend
ing one of the evangelist's services
in his "kingdom" headquarters In
West 115th street. There, a friend
of Green, Paul Camora, attempted
to serve Father Divine with a sum
mons to appear in a civil suit.
A riot ensued. Negro adherents
of "God" whose legal name, police
said. Is George Baker fell upon the
process server, from Union City,
N. J., and beat him.
His hurts. It developed, were few.
But Green was less lucky. In
Harlem hospital his condition was
described as serious. Police said
the charge against Father Divine,
would be changed to homicide if
the man died.
Already under arrest in the af
fair were three negroes, charged
similarly,
A third outside witness to the
fracas was Joseph De Nove, a news
paper reporter, also beaten. Escap
ing the wratn of some 2.500 negroes
who set upon the process server. De
Nove called police. By the time of
ficers arrived Father Divine had
vanished.
Cards are Played
Dallas. Ore. Airs. L. L. McCarty
was surprised Saturday evening
when a group of friends dropped
in. Cards were played during the
evening with Mrs. Stinnett in first
place for the ladies and Mrs, Cruson
second. Emmett Cruson was hieh
for the men with Al Cleveland sec
ond. In the group were Mr. and
Mrs. R. 8. Kreason, Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Cruson, Mr. and Mrs, A. J.
Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs, Carl Bales,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stinnett and
Mr. and Mrs, MoCarty.
Power A phase of the scope of
Mr. Farley's superior possibilities is
revealed in a bill which recently
passed the house almost unnoticed,
It, has been on the general's desk
during the last few days, awaiting
his suggestions before the senate
takes it up.
The bill is a remodeled one from
last session, known as an act to
put postmasters under civil service,
but it really puts them under Far
ley. It gives him power in the future
to name postmasters without con
firmation by the senate. In general
it would perpetuate In office exist
ing Farley postmasters "who have
satisfactory records." that is "satis
factory" to Mr. Farley.
Its fate in the senate- is prob
lematical. As a rule, however, sena
tors usually leave these appointments
to house members on the theory
they are in closer touch with local
newels. The real reason is that, for
each person made happy by a post-
mastership, a dozen or so enemies
are made. Consequently, many are
not loathe to give Farley this power.
The official Justification is that
the bill will increase the civil ser
vice efficiency of the service. It may,
but it will also Increase the political
efficiency of Mr. Farley.
Coup The Green craftsmen of
the A. F. of L, have discovered that
their foe. John Lewis, got a prefer
red position out -of the Wagner la
bor act. They are crowding con
gressmen In behalf of the Dies-
Walsh amendment (which they
wrote) to correct the situation. A
somewhat strenuous lobbying strug
gle is in progress backstage.
It seems the Green men did not
discover the Lewis coup until April
5, just be-fore the supreme court up
held the act In a surprise decision,
At least they made no objection to
the original wording of the act,
permitting the labor board to select
either their craft unit or any other
appropriate unit for collective bar
gaining under majority rule. They
were probably not suspicious at that
time because the Lewis break had
not then developed.
Now they find that the bill,
which they fought for, gives the
Lewis industrial unit a chance to
outvote the smaller A. F. of L.
craft units in collective bargaining
elections. The Lewis groups, cover
ing a whole industry, are naturally
likely to be larger than the craft
units, covering only the craft work
ers in each industry.
The amendment they are now
pushing, the Dies-Walsh bill, would
require the labor board to recog
nize the craft unit. It says:
"In any case where a majority of
the employes of a particular craft
shall so decide, the board shall de
signate such craft as a unit ap
propriate for the purposes of col
lective bargaining."
Fundamentally, it is a struggle
between Green and Lewis for con
trol of the board, and Just now Lewis
seems to have the edge.
Mood Congressmen have been
Legal
IN THE DISTRICT COlRT OF
THE IMTF.n STATES FOR THE
DISTRICT OF OREGON
NO. B 22 146
In the Matter of Elsie Butler,
bankrupt.
To the creditors of Eltie Butler, of
Salem, in the County of Marion and
District aforesaid, a bankrupt.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
on the 14ih day of April, 1937. the
said Elsie Butler was duly adjudicat
ed bankrupt and that the first meet
ing of her creditors will be held at
the Law Library of the Law Office of
Keys V Page. Room 304 U S. Na
tional Bank Building, in the City of
S.ilem. orecon. on the 3rd day of
May. 1937. at 2.00 o'clock in the af
ternoon, at which time the said cre
ditors may attend, prove their claim,
appoint a trustee, examine (he bank.
nipt and transact such other busi
ness as may properly come before
said meeting.
WILLARD L. MARKS,
Referee in Bankruptcy. 96
Scientific Marriage
Would Remove Cancer
As Curse of Humanity
Chicago, April 21. (fl) Recording of every family's
medical history for diagnostic purposes holds the secret to
longevity and freedom from disease, Dr. Maud Slye, noted
miner rewKnn acitmui, saia
day.
The pathologist, who has atudied
hereditary cancerous strains In
150.000 mice during the last 26
years, asserted that compilation and
study of family tendencies which
are passed on from one generation
to another and the practical appli
cation of them "would In time
eliminate cancer.
"I succeeded through the use of
records and scientific breeding In
completely eliminating the cancer-
oua strains In many families of
mice, "Dr. Slye said. "But, this was
only possible through bookkeeping.
Volumes of records are kept In
her laboratory, sketching the hered
itary traits from generation to
generation. "Prom these records,
she said, "I can predict with a very
NEW COURTHOUSE
FINANCES SLATED
Methods of financing for the pro
posed new courthouse will probably
be one of the topics discussed at a
meeting of the courtliouse building
committee called for Thursday eve
ning at 7:30 when both court and
lay members will be present.
At that time the lay members will
have their first glimpse of the re
vised building plans and there may
be some definite cost estimates on
hand from the architects. Other de.
tails are also likely to come up for
consideration.
moved by the budget situation, but
not very much. The house hearings
on the CCC camp appropriations,
indicate tUere are still a few con
gressmen who prefer the printing
press to the bond embossing ma
chine. No real economy moves have
been attempted. The tendency for
weeks has been to sit down and
awiat delivery of President Roose
velt's revised budget estimates.
Three of the ten annual budget ap
propriations bills still are in early
legislative stages (agriculture, In
terior and war) and only one (In
dependent offices) has passed both
houses of congress.
There Is, therefore, time for eco
nomizing on nine-tenths of next
year's appropriation bills, but the
inclination Is lacking. J
small margin of error what will
cause the death of every mouse in
the laboratory."
"Human records should be kept In
a central bureau for the use of the
medical profession. The government
has succeeded In filing the records
of some 7,000,000 criminals; the
same could be done with family
health charts."
If human beings could be bred
like mice, she said, cancer and many
other diseases would be eliminated
in a few generations.
Dr. slye, who had bred mice
through more than 100 generations,
said In an Interview that her 26
years of research revealed:
1. That cancer susceptibility Is in
heritable.
2. That it Is possible to breed out
this susceptibility to a given type
and location of malignancy.
3. That cancer can be bred Into
a family by mating with members
of families carrying the various
types of malignancy.
At the same time, Dr. Slye of
fered a three-point program for
cancer prevention:
1. Avoidance of Intermarriage be
tween persons who are cancerous,
or whose families have shown sus
ceptibility to cancer.
2. Record the medical history of
families In a central bureau for di
agnostic purposes.
3. Recognize cancer as a social
rather than an academic problem
with a view toward Its elimination
from the human rnre.
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y T W "S donee's Progress
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BLENDED WHISKEY
b
JOHNSONS
464 State St.
Come with the
crowds to
JOHNSON'S
"always busy"
WE APPRECIATE
YOUR PATRONAGE
THERE MUST
BE A REASON
Tuesday we will
be packed
Watch and See '
The Prices
Will Do It
We sell our mer
chandise just as
we advertise it.
DOWN STAIRS
STORE
BARGAINS
Ture Silk blips
lvalues Tuesday only.
; While they last, your
choice, nngk
each I IV
Throe slirM are guaranteed
pull-proof. Limit t to
customer.
Garden & Cannery
Aprons
Rep;. $1.49 values. Tues-
caTT 19C
Better hurry, folks. They
won't last Ion;.
Purses
Rep. $1.00 values. Out
they fro
Tuesday
50C
While They Last
Cr'lfltt ljr, tnl Martb,rtr, HwTn(l OLD SCHtMLtV BRAND
rvdotrt ar S twar end 4 fntt r smf aid. 9.M .-! JLi.iu. m .7" .
) to d l tilled frm ftwioHcM srsln. 111 tral(ft rkik,v. 1 run 4 Ntfc
Rollins Panties
Reg. 59c grade. We
made a special purchase
of these. We took all
that the factory had. Out
they go Tuesday
only, each
18C
2 for 35c
Limit 6 to s customer
One Lot of Fall
Hats
Reg. values up to 2.95.
Out they go, while
they last Tues- 4 A .
day only, each A UC
Belter Be Karly or They
tVill Be All Gone
Lace Collar and
Cuff Sets
Reg. values up to $1.00.
Tuesdav ,
only 5C
Brat these If you can
Rollins Silk
fiose
! Reg. values to 79c.
j Tuesday at Johnson's, !
Jchoice ... 39C
I Beat This If Von Can
House Dresses
The largest stock in town
to choose from. We mean
every word of it. Extra
Special for Tuesday,
Dresses worth up to
!r!! $1.49
THERE Ml'ST BE A
REASON WHY .IOHN-SON-S
ARE ALWAYS
BISY. VALl'ES EV
ERY DAY IN THE
WEEK. THAT'S IT.
JOHNSON'S
"The Slore for
Ladies"
464 State St.