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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS ' OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi ot Noted People, Governments and Pacillo Northwest, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. The Kansas law creating a state industrial relations court was declar ed unconstitutional by the supreme court Monday insofar as it attempted to fix wages in packing houses. Seven dead, many reported missing, thousands homeless and property loss exceeding $5,000,000 was the known toll Tuesday night ot floods which have sent virtually every stream In Kansas to the highest stage in years. The French budget deficit ot 3,750, 000,000 francs Is turned into a sur plus of nearly 900,000,000 francs, and cited as comparing favorably with the American and British budgets, in the final report of the senate's finance commission. After a controversy of 25 years' standing the general assembly of the Canadian Presbyterian church voted in favor of amalgamating with the Meth odist and Congregational churches of the dominion. The vote was 426 to 129. .. .' William A. Plukerton, in an informal discussion ot the causes of crime in Buffalo, N. Y., advocated the whipping post and the pillory for the house bur glar and "stick-up" man and declared against systems of parole and inde terminate sentences. Two thousand relatives and friends ot cadets thronged about the battle monument on Trophy point, overlook ing the Hudson river at West Point, N. Y., Tuesday and witnessed the graduation of the 261 cadets who com posed the West Point class ot 1923. Dispatches to , Jugo-Slav news papers Wednesday report the ex istence of a Btate of civil war through out the greater part of Bulgaria. Form er Cabinet Ministers Oboff and Dou parlnoff are said to have been killed during an engagement with revolu tionary troops. Scott Stalker of Pocatello, Idaho, was drowned and T. R. Moffett of Cleveland, O., narrowly -escaped drowning when a canoe in which they had started for Portland, Or., cap sized In the Bowl and Pitcher rapids of the Spokane river near Spokane, Washington Tuesday. , Ten sturdy German, girls, who ad mitted that they had- come to this country looking for .tall, strong hus-. bands with a little money, arrived in New York, Monday on the Royal Mail line steaniBhtp Orca. They were bound for New Haven, the seat ot Yule uni versity. Their ages range from 16 to 21. Drastic federal legislation for the control ot firearms as a means of checking the steadily growing homi cide rate was urged by the Spectator of New York, an insurance periodical, Wednesday in making public homicide statistics for 1922, which showed a slaying rate in 28 of the largest cities ot nine for each 100,000 of population. Department of justice officials in dicated Tuesday that the government will appeal to the supreme court from the decision of the United States cir cuit court of appeals at St. Paul which permits consolidation ot the Southern Padrio and Central Pacific railroads. Thnt the decision has left confusion in its wake as it affects Interpretation of the Sherman anti-trust act and the transportation act was manifest and It for no other reason than to clear the situation on vital points ot these laws, it Is confidently expected that the department will note an appeal. Discovery of a simple but effective cure for infantile paralysis, that dread scourge which has baffled medical science, has been made by a Chicago woman, who prefers to retain her an onymity. Her treatment has been tried 'out with marked success at the Northwestern university medical 8iluol and has been adopted by the Vitntlng Nurse association. The de vice consists ot a large tank, partly filled with tepid water and equipped with a circular bench around the in side. The crippled children merely sit for hours with their feet and legs Im mersed In the water, while they prac tice wiggling their toes. The little patients take to the treatment heartily and the results have been highly sat isfactory, j HARDING TO FIRE WASTERS Rigid Economy Is Demanded by Chief at "Business" Meeting1. Washington, D. C 1 Confident that the government will finish the 12 month period ending June 30 with a surplus of $200,000,000, President Hard ing told government offlcluls at a "business" meeting Monday that he expected greater economies to be ef fected during the next fiscal year. The policy of "economy with ef ficiency," he asserted, must be pressed further for the benefit of the tax payers. The executive, taking official no tice of reported attempts by some of ficials to influence congress to grant larger appropriations than recommend ed by the budget bureau, warned against repetition of such activities. Departing from his prepared address and shaking his finger emphatically at his audience, he announced he was ready to give consideration to recom mendations for the discharge of of ficials who urged congressional com mittees to go beyond the budget fig ures In appropriations. j "I do not hestltate to say," Mr. Hard ing declared, "that a repetition of the acts of any government officer before congressional committees in urging ap propriations in excess ot the budget's recommendations will be regarded as sufficient reason to cause the giving of consideration to the severance of such officials from the government service." The president's determination to enforce the program of keeping gov ernment expenditures within Income was reflected In a speech by Brigadier General Lord, director ot the budget, who, speaking also at the meeting, said he had asked the president to discharge one official who had in structed his subordinates to spend all money available to their bureau before July 1. The official, General Lord de clared, sent telegrams to his field serv ice employes, urging them to let no appropriation lapse at the end of the fiscal year, when unexpended funds revert to the treasury general fund. General Lord made a plea for a stop ping or wastage in government opera tions, the small as well as the large, for both kinds, he said, were equally important in any program of retrench ment of expenditures. The president characterized the ef forts of the government "business" organization toward retrenchment as epochal. He said that the benefits accruing were not all directly shown and pointed to the adoption by many states of federal standards and meth ods as proof that the policy of econ omy in government was being carried further by the example of the federal government. All of this, the executive asserted means government at less ex pense to those who pay the bills. ETNA SP0UNITG HOT LAVA Rome. Mount Etna, In violent erup tion Monday was laying waste the sur rounding countryside, said dispatches which reached the mainland. Great rivers of molten rock, pour ing down the steep sides of the moun tain from numerous fissures, were overwhelming all before them and the inhabitants of the surrounding settle ments were fleeing in despair while crops and homes were disappearing under the hissing flood. The main crater of Etna, after the fitful displays of the last week, sud denly opened up at midnight Sunday with a noise like the firing of a thous and cannon. There were subterranean rumblings, flames shot to the sky and the populations of the little towns about the base of the cone fled to the plains. Five great cracks opened in the northeastern side it the mountain and from these mouths, several kilometers from the old crater, came streams of lava. Thousands of tons of rocks and ashes were hurled to a height of 30 to 60 feet from both the old and new craters and the lava Btreams, advanc ing on a frontage estimated at 500 yards, luid waste the vlneyard3 and forests In their paths and progressed at a speed ot a mile and a quarter an hour. Pole Flight Given Up. Christiana. Captain Roald Amund sen has abandoned his proposed flight across the North Pole by airplane, it was announced Monday afternoon by the Norwegian minister of defense. The minister received a message from Leon Amundsen, brother of Roald, reading: "Just received the following telegram, dated Norwich, Alaska: 'Trial flight held May 11. Result very unsatisfactory. Sorry forced abandon proposed flight. Have written.'" Big Kansas Bank Shut. Wichita, Kan. The American State bank, one ot the strongest state hanks la Kansas, closed Its doors early Mon day morning. The bank was closed following discovery ot the defalcation of $1,500,000 by Phillip A. Drumm, cashier, the Wichita clearing house announced. FRENCH MAY CLOSE FACTORIES IN RUHR Germans Given Warning by Oc cupation Authorities. PURPOSE TO COLLECT Plan to Take Control of Coal, Coke and All Raw Material Sup plies Is Announced. Dusseldorf. Plans to take control of the coal and coke and raw material supplies of all the factories In the Ruhr were announced Saturday at French headquarters here. The oc cupation authorities decided to adopt this method to enforce payment of the coal tax which all except a few of the smallest plants have heretofore re fused to pay. General Degoutte, the allied commander-in-chief, issued a decree an nouncing the military's intention to take charge of all overhead convey ors and all rail lines leading from the coal mines to the factories. The French and Belgians will post guards along all such lines, and whenever a plant director refuses to pay the coal tax to the occupational authorities his supplies of coal, coke and raw mater ials will be immediately cut off, thus causing the shutdown of the plant as soon as Its stocks are exhausted. The Krupp works at Essen, employ ing 62,000 men, and the Stinnes works at Muelheim, with 40,000 men, will be among the establishments affected. indebtedness Issue Bought Up Washington, D. C The treasury de partment announced Sunday night that it had accepted subscriptions totaling $189,833,500 to the latest issues of indebtedness. A total of $342,462,000 was subscribed but the treasury's requirements for the next few months permitted the amount of cash offers taken to be held close to the original estimate of $150,000,000. Secretary Mellon, however, decided to accept all subscriptions for which matured securities were offered in payment. These amounted to $38,344,' 000. ' Closing of the Issue of certificates which matures December 15 and bears 4 per cent interest, marks the con elusion of the treasury fiscal opera' tlons for this finance year, and fn all probability nothing will be done In the way of new financing before the mid dle of September. Kite Flier, 76, Is "Hero." Jamaica, L. I. James A. Poulson of Jamaica, the 76-year-old kite en thusiast, who became famous over night and won the annual Jersey City kite flying contest by sending his llxll-foot rocket 2 miles into the air Saturday, was being congratulated for his extraordinary accomplishment. Poulson is the boys' hero now and the ease with which he sends his kite high above the rest is still an awe- inspiring mystery to them. Out in Jersey City and in Jamaica the boys consider Poulson the eighth wonder of the world. Poulson, however, did not become famous by accident. He has been flying kites for 66 years. Coney Island It Raided. Coney Island, N. Y. Determined to rid Coney Island of its week-end pa Jama parties and gambling seances this summer, two score detectives and patrolmen in a series of raids Sunday arrested more than 150 men and wo men. Magistrates McCloskey and O'Nell spent most of the day in police court accepting pleas of guilty and im posing tines. Two hotels and dozens ot seaside bungalows were raided. Eighty-one men and women were taken in rooms at hotels. $8 Increases to $55. New York. An $8 savings bank de posit, made in Boston during the 1873 panic, by George G. Felton, 67, a re tired manufacturer and politician, has grown, after several reassignments to a fund of $55, which Felton Saturday made over to his grandson, Gail Felton, 6, ot Brooklyn, to grow up with. If Gall leaves it Intact for 60 years more he will have a sizeable bank roll. Soviet Envoy It Named. Toklo. Adolph A. Joffe, represent ing the Russian soviet government, has been appointed plenipotentiary for the preliminary "conversations" with the Japanese government for the pur pose of re-establishing relations be tween the two countries. S L "GOOD GIRLI" SYNOPSIS. General factotum In the house of her pister Ina, wife of Herbert Deacon, In the small town of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads a dull, cramped existence, with which he la constantly at enmity, though apparently satisfied with her lot. Bobby Larkln, recently graduated high-school youth, Is secretly en amored of Deacon's elder daughter, Diana. The family Is excited over the news of an approaching visit from Deacon's brother Nlnlan, whom he had not seen for many years. Unexpectedly, Nlnlan ar rives. Thus he becomes acquainted with Lulu first and understands her position in the house. To Lulu, Nlnlan Is a much-traveled man -of the world, and even the slight In terest which he takes in her Is appreciated, because It Is something new in her life. At an outing which the family takes, Nlnlan and Lulu become conlidential. He ex presses his disapproval of her treatment as a sort of dependent In the Deacon home. Diana and Bobby, In the course of "soft noth ings," discuss the possibility of eloping and "surprising the whole school." Lulu has awakened to pleasant possibilities concerning Nlnlan's intentions toward herself. Nlnlan takes the family for a "good time" In the adjacent city. At supper, after the theater, as part of a Joke Lulu repeats the words of the civil marriage cere mony, with Nlnlan. Herbert re members that a civil wedding Is binding In the state, and Inasmuch as he Is a magistrate, Nlnlan and Lulu are legally married. IV Continued. a Ina inexplicably began touching away tears. "Oh," she said, "what will mamma say?" Lulu hardly heard her. Mrs. Bett was Incalculably distant. "You sure?" Lulu said low to Nlnlan. For the first time, something In her exceeding isolation really touched him. "Say," he said, "you come on with me. We'll have It done over again somewhere, If you say so." "Oh," said Lulu, "if I thought" He leaned and patted her hand. "Good giri" he said. They sat silent, Nlnlan padding on the cloth with the flat of his plump hands. Dwlght returned. "It's a go all right," he said. He sat down, laughed weakly, rubbed at his face. "You two are tied as tight as the church could tie you." "Good enough," said Nlnlan. "Eh, Lulu?" "It's It's all right, I guess," Lulu said. "Well, I'll be dished," suld Dwlght "Sister!" Bald Jna. Nlnlan meditated, his lips set tight and high. It is Impossible to trace the processes of this man. Perhaps they were all compact of the devil-may-care attitude engendered In any persistent traveler. Perhaps the incom parable cookery of Lulu played its part. "I was going to make a trip south this month," he said, "on my. way home from here. Suppose we get married again by somebody or other, and start right off. You'd like that, wouldn't you going Bouth. "Yes," said Lulu only. "It's July," said Ina, with her sense of fitness, but no one heard. It was arranged that their trunks should follow them Ina would see to that, though she was scandalized that they were not first to return to War bleton for the blessing of Mrs. Bett. "Mamma won't mind," said Lulu. "Mamma can't stand a fuss any more." They left the table. The men and women still sitting at the other tables saw nothing unusnal about these four, indifferently dressed, Indifferently conditioned. The hotel orchestra, playing ragtime in deafening concord, made Lulu's wedding march, It was still early next day a hot Sunday when Ina and Dwlght reached home. Mrs. Bett was stand ing on the porch. "Where's Lulle?" asked Mrs. Bett They told. Mrs. Bett took it in, a bit at a time. Her pale eyes searched their faces, she shook her head, heard it again, grasped It Her first question was: "Who's going to do your work?" Ina had thought of that, and this wa manifest. "Oh," she said, "you and I'll have to manage." Mrs. Bett meditated, frowning. "I left the bacon for her to cook for your breakfasts," she said. "I can't cook bacon fit to eat Neither can yon." "We've had our breakfasts," Ina escaped from this dilemma. "Had It up In the city, on expense?" "Yeil, we didn't have much." In Mrs. Bett's eyes tears gathered, but they were not for Lulu. "I should think," she said, "I should think Lulle might have had a little more gratitude to her than this." On their way to church Ina and 1 Id PIIIU1UI1AIB Ciouritihr by D.APPLETON Ar4D COMPANX Dwlght encountered Dl, who had left the house some time earlier, step ping sedately to church In company with Bobby Larkln. DI was In white, and her face was the face of an angel, so young, so questioning, so utterly devoid of her sophistication. "That child,", said Ina, "must not see so much of that Larkln boy. She's Just a little, little girl." "Of course she mustn't," said Dwlght sharply, "and if I was her mother " "Oh, stop that!" said Ina, sotto voce, at the church steps. To every one with whom they spoke in the aisle after church, , Ina an nounced their news: Had they heard? Lulu murrled Dwlght's brother Nlnlan To Every One With Whom They Spoke In the Aisle After Church Ina Announced Their News. In the city yesterday. Oh, sudden, yes I And romantic , . , spoken with that upward inflection to which Ina was a prey. V August. Mrs. Bett had been having a "tan trim," brought on by nothing definable. Abruptly as she and Ina were getting supper, Mrs. Bett had fallen silent, had In fact refused to reply when ad dressed. When all was ready and Dwlght was entering, hair wetly brushed, she had withdrawn from the room and closed her bedroom door until it echoed. "She's got one again," said Ina, grieving. "Dwight, you go." He went, showing no sign of annoy ance, and stood outside his mother-in-law's door and knocked. No answer. "Mother, come and have some sup per." , No answer. "Looks to me like your muffins was Just about the best ever." No answer. "Come on I had something funny to tell you and Ina." He retreated, knowing nothing of the admirable control exercised by this woman for her own passionate satisfaction in sending him away un satisfied. He showed nothing but anx ious concern, touched with regret, at his failure. Ina, too, returned from that door discomfited. Dwlght made a gallant effort to retrieve the fallen fortunes of their evening meal, and turned upon DI, who had Just entered, and with exceeding facetlousness In quired how Bobby was. Dl looked hunted. She could never tell whether her parents were going to tease her about Bobby, or rebuke her for being seen with him. It de pended on mood, and this mood Di had not the experience to gauge. She now groped for some neutral fact, and mentioned that he was going to take her and Jenny for ice cream that night. Ina's Irritation found Just expres sion In her office of motherhood. "I won't have you downtown in the evening," she said. "But you let me go last night." "All the better reason why you should not go tonight." "I tell you," cried Dwlght. "Why not all walk down? Why not all have Ice cream . . ." He was all gentle ness and propitiation, the reconciling element In his home. "Me, too?" Monona's ardent hope, her terrible fear were In her eye brows, her parted Hps. "You, too, certainly." Dwight could not do enough for every one. Monona clapped her hands. "Goody 1 goody I Last time you wouldn't Jet me go," "That's why pnpa's going to take you this time," Ina suld. These ethical balances having been nicely struck, Ina proposed another: "But," she said, "but, you must eat more supper or you cannot go." "I don't want any more." Monona's look was honest and piteous. "Makes no difference. You must eat or you'll get sick." "Nol" "Very well, then. No Ice cream soda for such a little girl." Monona began to cry ouletly. But she passed her plate. She ate, chew ing high, and slowly. "See? She can eat if she will eat," Ina said to Dwlght. "The only trouble is, she will not take the time." "She don't put her mind on her meals," Dwight Herbert diagnosed It, "Oh, bigger bites than that!" he en couraged his little daughter. Dl's mind had been proceeding along its own paths. "Are you going to take Jenny and Bobby too?" she Inquired. "Certainly. The whole party." "Bobby'll want to pay for Jennjr and I." "Me, darling." said Ina patiently, punctiliously and less punctiliously added: "Nonsense, This is going to be papa's little party." "But we had the engagement with Bobby. It was an engagement." "Well," said Ina, "I think we'll Just set that aside that important en gagement. I think we Just will." "Papa! Boby'll want to be the one to pay for Jenny and I" "DI I" Ina's voice dominated all. "Will you be more careful of your grammar or shall I speuk to you again?" "Well, I'd rather use bad grammar than than than" she looked re sentfully at her mother, her father. Their moral defection was evident to her, but it was Indefinable. They told her that she ought to be ashamed when papa wanted to give them all a treat. She sat silent, frowning, put upon. "Look, mamma!" cried Monona, swallowing a third of an egg at one impulse. Ina saw only the empty plate. "Mamma's nice little girl 1" cried she, shining upon her child. The rules of the ordinary sports of the playground, scrupulously applied, would have clarified the ethical at mosphere of this little family. But there was no one to apply them. When Di and Monona had been ex cused, Dwight asked: "Nothing new from the bride and groom?" . "No. And, Dwlght, it's been a week since the last." "See where are they then?" He knew perfectly well that they were in Savannah, Georgia, but Ina played his game, told him, and retold bits that the letter had said. "I don't understand," she added, "why they should go straight to Ore gon without coming here first." Dwlght hazarded that Nin probably had to get back, and shone pleasantly In the reflected importance of a brother filled with affairs. "I don't know what to make of Lu lu's letters," Ina proceeded. "They're so so " "You haven't had but two, have you?" , "That's all well, of course It's only been a month. But both letters have been so " Ina was never really articulate. Whatever corner of her brain had the blood In it at the moment seemed to be operative, and she let the matter go at that. "I don't think it's fair to mamma going off that way. Leaving her own mother. Why, she may never see mamma again" Ina's breath caught. Into her face came something of the lovely tenderness with which she sometimes looked at Monona and DI. She sprang up. She had forgotten to put some supper to warm for mamma. The lovely light was still in her face as she bustled about against the time of mamma's recovery from her tantrlm. Dwlght's face was like this when be spoke of his foster mother. ' In both these beings there was something which functioned as pure love. Mamma had recovered and was eat ing cold scrambled eggs on the corner of the kitchen table when the ice cream soda party was ready to set out. Dwlght threw her a casual "Bet ter come, too, Mother Bett," but she shook her head. She wished to go, wished it with violence, but she con trived to give to her arbitrary refusal a quality of contempt. When Jenny arrived with Bobby, she had brought a sheaf of gladioli for Mrs. Bett, and took them to her in the kitchen, and as she laid the flowers beside her, the young girl stopped and kissed her. "You little darling I" cried Mrs. Bett, and clung to her, her lifted eyes lit by something intense and living. But when the ice cream party had set off at last, Mrs. Bett left her supper, gath ered up the flowers, and crossed the lawn to the old cripple, Grandma Gates. "Inle sha'n't have 'em," the old woman thought. And then it was quite beautiful te watch her with Grandma Gates, whom she tended and petted, te whose complainings she listened, and to whom she tried to tell the small events of her day. When her neigh bor had gone, Grandma Gates Hid that it was as good as a dose of mf cine to have her come in. "You tee," said Lulu, "he had another wlfs," (TO SB COST1NDED.) Do and It will soon be dona.