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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1930)
Greater e- f l!3Z---Ttf Ons of Bucharest's Cl'rt t rid bj the National Orphl0 SmUty. Washington, P. C RUMANIA, the latest of the world's monarchies to change kings, has undergone such great changes la the past ilor.cn years that It has In effect had a blood less revolution. This period has seen the distribution of S.fsWW acres of land to more than 1.400.000 peasants. Before the war Rumania was a coun try of the landed rich and the land less poor. Today the maximum hold In? permitted to one Individual Is 1,235 acres. King and nobles gave up their estates to fulfill the demands of the agrarian reform. What Russia. Mexico and other countries have done In the matter of land distribution at the cost of many lives and much money, Rumania accomplished without a shot Put reform was not without cost Uncertainties. lack of organization to meet new conditions, and lack of transportation facilities Increased the cost of borrowed money to 12 and 14 per cent Credit is tight In a country where all the money In circulation must rass through the national treas ury as taxes three times per year. Greater Rumania Is nearly three times as large as pre-war Rumania. The new nation took In Transylvania, the Banat, Bucovina and Bessarabia, and has yet to digest them. Old Ru mania was the size of England. Great er Rumania Is larger than England adding to Itself Wales, Scotland and Ireland. I.Ike the onlts of Great Britain, each Is different; Bessarabia is an extension of the Russian black earth prairie; Bucovina, a forested re gion; Transylvania an upland notable for Industries as well as agriculture; the Banat a lowland. Farming Comes First After the war Rumania saw visions of an Industrial future. The country has ample resources: oil, watpr power, wood, ore, and a good labor supply. Ten years have dimmed the vision but have not wiped it out Eight out of ten Rumanians still are farmers so the nation has decided to make a good Job of farming before turning to In dustry. Co-operstives have been or ganized. Groups of peasnnts find they can afford to buy American farm ma chinery. A grain grading law was passed' In lfCS. Silk culture starting from nothing has Increased to an en terprise enlisting 4,000 workers and flV).0fi0 capital. Since the World war Rumanians have turned definitely from wheat to American corn. Greater acreage Is planted In corn than what Corn mush displaces bread as a national food. Besarahia looks like Kansas. But In Y.d a second droueht hit the country. The corn crop was a failure and Romania, a country which has ex ported cereals fur years, had to Import eori. f fie government Jicd to fore STajT famine Tn some region. The similarity of parts of Rumania to Kansas extends to sunflowers for which both regions are famous. In Rumania sunflowers are a standard crop; 304.fl.15 acres were planted In tinflowers last year. Oil pressed from sunflower seeds serves as a constituent of butter substitutes. Four foundation stones support life In Rumania; cereals, oil, lumber, and live stock. Production of oil and lum ber has progressed vigorously, not enough, however, to offset losses In cereals and live stock. Companies of many nntlons Includ ing the United States are working Ru manian oil wells near Ploestl, north west of Bucharest (Ilueurestl). They have Increased production to 4.20r,104 metric tons of oil per year. Rumania stands sixth, supplying 2.4 of the world production, although Rumanian oil represents 13 per cent of the In crease In world production. Buys American Automobiles. Despite the depression, and lack of roads, sales of automobiles, most of them American, continue to Increase. In 1!)28 12.CKI0 were sold a record. Many of them go to the oil fields Where they permit the engineers In charge of outlying wells to get to I'loestl occasionally for the enjoyment of companionship In the International club. Automobiles are the biggest Item "AiTlii'Wwji inmorts which Include accessorleslfim " 'i'llomcnt, radios, phonographs nml records, en gines, Insecticides and electric refrig erators to the amount of $12.ooo.(kk. Wulnuts and fur skins are Rumania's chief exports to the United States. Among the Improvement to which Rumania looks forward Is .the reclum ntlon of vast areas of swamp land. Feven thousand square miles of marsh Will afford nuiple land for the remain Iumama i z Modern Public Building. ing landless peasants, numbering, about (100,000. The nation has Its own national church, the Orthodox Eastern church. Other churches have numerous mem bers, however, among thera the Uni tarian church. Bucharest (Bucuresti), capital of Rumania, has long been known as -The Little Paris of the Balkans." It has many earmarks of the French capital. One of Its wide tree-lined thoroughfares Is called the "Little. Champs Ely see" and there Is an Arc Ue Trlomphe, both of which suggest the atmosphere of Taris. The bridle paths flanking the thoroughfare con stantly resound with the thud of hoof of blooded horses, mounted by smart looking men and women; and the seemingly endless mass of pedestrians strolls In a gay mood with no apparent destination. Here and on other fine thorough fares lined with palatial residences and fine church and government buildings a sad countenance Is out of place. However, this portion of the city has no corner on smiles for the doorways of the humblest Bucha rest home In the cobbled byways of the poorer section of the city am filled with smiling, chattering parents while their children boisterously run here and there while playing native, games. The meat vendor with whole slaughtered animals swinging on the end of a long pole, vendors of sweet meats, and even some of the multitude of beggars are a cheerful lot. Bucharest Has Fins Shops. Bucharest Impresses the traveler from the time he emerges from one of Its modern hotels downtown. Shops as fine as can be found In most cap itals of the world line the business streets. Behind large plate glass win dows the American traveler finds such familiar articles as American-made flashlights, radios and phonographs. It is not necessary to find an auto mobile salesman to see American au tomobiles on display. The streets are full of them. In front of a hotel or business building six to eight of a dozen automobiles are popular Ameri can makes and across the street a billboard Is plastered with an adver tisement of a popular car made In Michigan. The doorways of the large movie or cinema houses display bright colored advertisements with the names of American actresses emblazoned In larre letters. Bucharest Is a walled town, without the wall. Crowded, as was the cus tom when city walls were the main defense, Bucharest drops away from the glitter of the Calea Vlctoriel and the boulevards to the run-down Orien talism of the outer sections and then abruptly to the empty, dusty plain. Its population has more than doubled In the lat decade and houses, as else where In eastern Europe, are at a premium. It requires Influence, per slstence and bribery to get into nn of the few hotels, the main attraction of which are the dining rooms, often open to the sky. Surrounded as it Is by rich farming country, Bucharest has not lncked for food, and the restaurants are well filled at all times. The Rumanian loves the uniform, and high heels on soft laced boots like those of the. French aviators suit the fancy of tho young dandles whose perfumed mus taches preserve their dignity by reach ing straight out Instead of turning up at the ends. The women are chic. Some Striking Contrasts. The few fine buildings are mixed In with unassuming structures which would never be at home In Paris or Berlin, and opposite the Imposing Waf College Tzigane women may be work ing at a noisy power suw which Is re ducing crooked poles to firewood. Thd few main streets are lined with mod ern buildings and new residence ave nues are stretching out toward uht periphery of the circular city; but Iii the crowded center of the towo h) confusing litter of tiny streets and alleys reminds one of a rabbit warren. In the market place, the traveler gets a glimpse of the rural folk who cluster about stands of vegetables which they bring to the city from the rolling farm land nearby. Here tin men seem to display no particular type of costume, most of them wearing European coats and trousers and there ore as many derbies as there are caps und soft hats and fez-shuped woolen head coverings. On the other hnnd the women folk blaze forth In bright colored shawls which cover the head and shoulders, and uprons with stripes of a half dozen unhlwidlng colors. Their dresses are Just short enough to reveal In the summer time that all feet are not shod. I 1 $ uitie $ j PARADE LOOKED QUEER The Bride (Indignantly) I never was so embarrassed In my life I Tho Groom Why, wlmssa mutter, dearie? The P.rlde All through the wedding ceremony you had your eyes glued on the side door marked "Exit," and the best man actually started two or three times to grab you as If he thought you were going to make a dnsh for It, AN ACCIDENT He "Hid that girl who was ao de termined to marry George get blml" She "No, she did not" lie "Md be die of accident or disease Y From Rear Seat Twinkle, twinkle, little star. On ihe vaudeville etase afar! I won1r how you'd look If I, With glasses up, weie sitting night Carry Oo Pat, who was moving, had asked one or two of his friends to carry bis chicken-house round for hint They found this a very strenuous Job. but struggled on. About halfway they set the coop down to have a rest when one of them suddenly exclaimed : "Why, Where's Pat?" "I'm all right." came a voice from Inside the house, "I'm carrying the perches." Exchange. Godspeed I "Let me take $10 will you! left my wallet at home." "Sorry, but I can't I'll put you Id the way of getting It, though." "Thanks. How?" "Here's a dime for carfare. Run home and get your wallet" Education Something Fierce "Why did you leave your last place T asked the mistress of a fashionable borne of the prospective negro maid "fey was too highbrow fer roe," she answered. "Iey was always fightln an' fuHsIn', an It sho' kept mo busy runnln' from de keyhole to de diet loo ary, ao Ah got mad an' quit" Nerve) "What's this extra charge for oil?" demanded the motorist. "That's for the oil we left on the upholstery," explained the garage man. HiS OWN GAME FIRST She "Do yon ever give any consid eration to our foreign relutlons?' He "Cun't say I do. My poor rela tlons get ail I have to give." Economics The old experience comes again ( To all the conscientious landa, 'with many striving to explain What no one clearly understand Even Split Angry Mistress "In the time It takes tne to tell you to do the work, I could do It myself." Housemaid "Yes'in, ond In the time It takea me to listen to you, to could I." ' Foolish Chance to Tab "George was killed going to pay a debt." . "There I That Is what comes of wanting to pay one's debts." Stray Stories. Education's Coite "Since you gave your son a car bus he kept his promise to do more study ing fit college?" "I'm certain of It, because he writes home much oftener now for money for books." Trained Caddy The Collie Loullng us usual? The Terrier Nope. I gotta Job. I get a pork chop Just for retrieving that little ball end dropping It some litre near the hole. liniihutwihim 'J ye...ti'-n-4nuilj Ivrwi'iiwuiHvrwiiijriBiii Evelyn Campbell wnu nu-rvii-e (Copyrlshl by Kvalyn Cami'MI.) THE STORY Und. Haverhill's father, ne'er do-well, dice when she Is seven teen. CHAPTER 1 Continued n m "1H)? They do everything. Live! They live everywhere." He sent his long, white band, line as a woman s, In a gesture (hat Indicated all tliul vast swevti of (he city apart from their own environment. "They huve In en around you, child, all of your life, only, uf course you .never saw them, you never would you never will. They built Ihe houses you Ihe In they paved the streets. They spun the cloth you wear, the food you eat Is bandied by them In a hundred ways all this passes through Ihelr hand, yet you have never knowingly seen them!" He stared, struck with this stupendous thought. Linda looked puztled and falntty distressed. She felt as If she had been cuugbt mocking at something which after all was not amusing or ridiculous. She was more thoughtful than girls of her age usually are. and there was novelty In this viewpoint Hint caught her attention. Bui be fore she could reply the procession, changing every minute, yet always the same, had clulmed her wonder again The music came fainter and fainter from Its distance. The best and show iest of the bands had gone by, and the tall of the comet nns escorted by the leftovers of drums and fifes. There was not a splendid automobile to be seen and no bowing. The tall silk hats had become extinct. Patrol men appeared on corners. They shouldered the crowd, and women and old men began to garner their flocks of startled awry children. Before long f wui impossible to tell where the marchers and the crowd were dl tided, for the street was a maelstrom of pushing, worrying bodies, striving against one another for the right of way to nowhere. Authority lost pa tience. Behind the brown awnings, safe and sound from all this flurry. In Cous in Amy's fine bouse on the avenue, Jim lluverlull talked to his daughter and used the sight th.-y had Just wit ne sed to Kilnt bis lesson and send It home. "Look down In the street and you will see life. I could not show you a fitter picture If we walked through all the galleries of the earth. Those (mor fools grubs you called them I Would the crowd come out to watch them march? Who cared or watched, after the band and Ihe cars and the unl forms went by! It's their one day of the year when we our kind are out of the city and they can play at calling It their own. Yet even then they've got to resort to fine feathers to make Ihelr own little show worth w hile. Poor, grubs I Smart butter flies! 1-et 'em dig and sweat and struggle until doomsday and they'll never be half as Important to the world as a red coat with a dancing stick. That's life. Linda." "It doesn't seem fair," she re marked. "Fair." he sneemd. "of course, It Isn't fair. Nothing Is fair. And It Is humanity Itself that encourages breds unfairness. As long ne men have eyes, they will he caught with color. As long as they have ears they would rather hear music than groans. It's the parade that counts. Llndn. my love. And they've learned It the people who want to get things done. You can put yourself over with a brass band and a bow when yon might crowl on your knpes to the edge of the Red sen and never be heard from." Linda who, nt sixteen, owned sables that were much too tine to be worn until she was twenty-live, hud already brushed close enough to the swamp of poverty to know Its chill hreiith They lived In Cousin Amy's house that sum mer; slept In grand mahogany beds, hut they used the servants' sheets, nod there was only a grouchy caretaker In Ihe basement living rooms. Oftee she carried secret packages from the corner grocery bits of food that did not reo,ulre experienced cooking. She did not like this. There was some thing fearsome and frightening about It much loo near the grew some priv cession that walked. After that day she listened attentively to all her fa tber had fo say He tried to crowd all the dubious wisdom ol his past Into the few days that remained, and she reached for It avidly. e e e e e e e Amy llalston relumed to America three weeks after Haverhill's death, She was very much annoyed Not, ot course, because the poor creature was dead she admitted that no one ha ronlrol of Hie life forces and she knew thnt the end hud lo come to every one but she thought It Inconsiderate ol til in to die In her house, She had expected to begin a series of dinner (lances Immediately, mid Hits neces sitated n period of mourning, however brief. Mourning called for nior.i clothes, when her trunks were al ready bursting with fresh Paris tolU-ites, It was comforting to reflect that only the family und a few old friends knew about Jim Haverhill and whether he was among Ihe quick or the dead. "There Is the daughter." she said speculatively to her husband who w histled off key but was n ucli too wise to offer suggestions, "A girl Ilka t tui may be u frightful responsibility or an asset, as her poor fathei would have aid."' Hut when she saw Linda In her slim black, polsrd with a gentle grav il, V that placed her grief In a mured set hided background, the II is! plena urnhlo moment of Urn whole tad affair presented Itself. "The girl la a beauty," she exulted as a good showman always exults over beauty. "She looks like her mother, w'.o was a fool, r she never would have married Jim Haverhill, but If this child Is as clever as she looks" Linda was clever. She was not jref seventeen, but het mind was twenty seven a mind as keen and super refilled as her lithe body. She knew of life as a game In which cleverness and suvolr fulre counted largely, and mm mm m mm ;ffJ "The Clrl Is a Beauty." She Esuttsd, as a Good Showman Alyt Exults Over Besuty. she calmly regnrded her youth an I beauty as trump curds The girl wse not romantic; she was free from silly complexes, and she had no heroes Her Hps curled when some one spoke of movie god, anil she was never known to read a modern novel. But with all this Llndn was a charming creature, polished ami .'tie, CHAPTER II "Poor Jim'. Daughter" When the sad business of eruslng "jlm Haverhill was well over and Cousin Amy's house was coming out of its coma, Linda put on her close little hat one day and went to see Senator Converse. There was not the slightest diffi culty In getting an Interview As she followed the clerk through one room after another she thought hove rich and powerful the senator must tie The carpets were like cushions under her feet, and everything, gleamed with shining surfaces and silence. Only a very Important man could command silence like that In the heart of the city. Senator Converse wns extremelv warm and sympathetic In his greeting. He heaved his ponderous body from his swivel chair and waddled to uieei her. As his hot, limp hands closed over hers she felt herself smothering She looked down In emharri.ssmeni nnd discovered that his reel were enormous long and tlaf and encased In beelless patent leather shoes that accentuated their shapeless unpleas nntness. "Poor Jim's daughter," he wheoiwd. lending her after him "upon my word I I have Just learned why duinl yon telegraph me at once? I would lime come or sent" He fell Into a long silence looking at her In surprise. (TO BE CONTINt'EI).) Uniformity in Spelling Making Slow Progress Of all the hundred of language In the world Spanish Is recognized as he most perfect phonetic. The Ital ian tongue Is a close second. This is why these tongues are among the easiest for foreigners to learn. The French academy has made some prog ress toward a uniform spelling ol French, but the system Is yel fat from perfect. When It Is remembered that even Slialicspoiire spelled his own name in :) dirTerent ways, it Is not hard to syinpallil.e wlih foreigners and elu mcntnry pupils In out own school who face the dilllcullles of masterlni the multitudinous forms of spelling perhaps some lime a uniform y tern may be adopted by Kugllxh speak llig peoples, btll It Will llol bu Soolk Kausiis CHy Star. Hal Sites Hat slz.es are fixed by measuring I lit length. Inside, from front to buck, nor then the middle width. Add logei'ier and divide by Iwo. The rcsi'i'. is J sire. Acidity Tho common couso of digestive ullllcuUles Is excess m id. Soda can not alter this condition, and It bum tho stomach. Something that wilt tic u I nil I r.o the acidity Is the sen. Ihle thing to take. That Is why physicians tell tho public to una Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Olio spoonful of this delightful preparation can neutralize many times Its volumo In acid. It acta Instantly relief Is quick, and very npparetit All gas Is dispelled; all sourness Is loon gone; the whol system Is sweetened. lo try this perfect null tu ld, and remember It Is Just as good for children, too, and pleasant for them to take. Any drug store has the genuine, prescrlptlonal product PHILLIPS 11 Milk , of Magnesia I'AKKtCK'S IIAIK HALS AM U ii nm I ikve lt f i"rj Impart Color ad M ftd II U) m I IfUiMl. 't'y.niM.ii.t.il,.St FLOKUroN SHAMPOO lilaal fn dm la contMi-lkmwIth l-arkar allalr lUiaaro. aUtrnO loir anf I and Burt. Hmli by niailiw at drag, lata, llimi UMtnkal Wocaa. l-atchuaua, N. !. WotwWfttl ft! tore. Mtfcac sINi UeMMt'lfttl, sWerW twt samel I rW 1 1 aft. may tif fmmf l iM 4. tinxiip A t nm - AM fvttt tmimt sjt wt HsS Whale Leather Cloves Out Women of h'urope are sguln finding the whale an aid to their wardrobe. Whale "leather" la bolng used In making fashionable gloves, and style leaderes have approved the new ma terial composed of the Intestines of the huge swimmers. The new gloves are delicately soft, but so lough thut It Is almost lmMwslhlv to wear them out. The whale has im contributed to women's styles since the day a of the whalebone for corsets. Summer COLDS Almost everybody knows no Bayer Aspirin breaks up cold tut why not prevent it? Take a tablet or Iwo when vou first feci the cold coming; on. Spare yourself the discomfort of a summer cold. Kcad the proven directions in every package Lr headaches, pain, etc. Foot Archee There are four arches in the foot the lung arch at the Inside of the foot from heel to great toe, the front arcf across the ball of the foot, the nrdi at the outside of tho foot from the heel to tho base of the small toe, ami the arch across the middle of the foot under Ihe Instep. Designating It Dentist Which tooth do you want extracted? rullman I'orler Iiwuh seben. TOOK IT TO BUILDjp UP Strengthened by Lydta E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound La, Junta. Colo. "After mv 111 lli daughter was born, one of my neighbors persuaded mn t try LydiaK.Pmk barn's Vegetable Compound to build mo tip. Th first bottlo nunlo quit o a chango in too. I got an appc tito and can sleep much better, 1 am not ao nervous as I wns. I have sis children and do all mv own work. ! can do so much moro now than I conli when I began tailing tho Vegetablo Comnound and I shall certainly recom mend your medieinn whenever I liavej nn opimrtunity." Miw. John Ohiiohn, It. (2, Box 210, La Junta, Colorado. W. N. U., Portland, No. 32-1930. m m i 1 1 9.(1 IaY
