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PAGE FOUR. THE DAILY CAPITAY JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919. Capital Journal AIT INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Publshed every evening except Sun day by the Capital Journal Printing Co.. 136 South Commercial street, Salem, Oregon. GEORGE PUTNAM Editor and Publisher Telephones Circulation and Busi ness office, 81; Editorial rooms 82. National Advertising Representa tives W. D. Ward, Tribune Building, New York, W. H. Stockwcll, People's Oas Building, Chicago. AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 6250 Certified by Audit Bureau of Circulation. FULL LEASE WIRE TELEGRAPH SERVICE Entered ns second class mail matter at 8alera, Oregon. MASTERFUL INACTIVITY. i ; !$E SS Sc j(j S(C )( )J j( 9f! Rippling Rhymes. By Walt Mason. WINTEB COMING The winter's aproacliing, the frost i.i eucrouehing, and turning green verdure to gold; -the evenings are chilly and I'nlm Beach look silly, and arc you orenaied for the cold? In pomp you go ridiiiK, jour swift motor gliding, 1 oflen belwiU you go past; you surely suuui Btttti'lv:! euvy you greatly but are you prepared for the blast? Is conl in the cellar, oil, joy-riding feller, and have you some uds in the bin, or are you just burning the coin you tire eiirnnH, just blowing your salary in f Oh, M'in ter is mixing its war paint and fixing to give Ux u jolt in the neck; the winds will be blowing, the rain will be snow ing, r.ud sleet w'ill descend by the pock. From icy Alaska and far Athabasca the winds will come yammering down; they'll raise the old Harry, the snow tney will cany, and plaster it over the town. And arc you preparing for win ter rlp-t-nring, oh, fellows who jivunt in your ears, or are you still burning the coin you are en ruing for rubber and gas mid cig:rs? Hay, huve you provided hum that ' lopsided, some bucou und wienies and flour? And have you In vested in coat double-breasted? For win ter is di iictic und dour. THE housing problem has been before the people of Salem for weeks. It has been discussed and debated in civic and commercial organizations and received the "moral support" of the community, but nothing has been done to attempt a solution or bring matters to a focus. There are, it is true, a few attempts by individuals and building loan associations to relieve ..the, situation. Plans for building a score of houses have been announced --but the adoption of a comprehensive construction pro gram is as far off as ever. Hundreds of houses are needed and for lack of them the city is daily losing population. With characteristic lethargy the city watches the daily eviction of renters from property whose purchase by newcomers has been forced because of failure to find vacant houses. The newcomer must buy if he is to re mam, because there are no houses for l-ent. The evicted renter must ' in turn either buy, build or leave the citv This condition may be highly pleasing to the landlords, who have taken advantage of the situation to raise rents and raise prices of propertybut is fatal to the city's fu ture. It was proposed that the commercial organizations and business men appoint a committee "to make an accu rate survey, of the situation, eather data and outline a j)lan for submission to capitalists with a view of enlisting support for a comprehensive building program, so that the additional population essential for the new industries be ing established could be housed. But no action was taken, and talk will not solve the problem.. No one is making the survey. . ' The Salem situation is different from that faced by mnof finmmnnitiac! nfm vil r nil ' f n - V, I U r"Un-.i. . v.uUl.UUw uvuujr ui niuui icpun a oiiui Ldgc i am y, M. C. A. work, and will be sta in homes, due to the suspension of all building activities ironed at North, Bend, ore., as Methodist Am I not as clover? I thought cf gon parties and has gone to deliver it my own little frocks that I had maov. j to the buyers. Of Harriet's dresses that I had helped The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Miles t i j i. , ... .- niui. a iciucuiuurou uer Kiumuue. i rviniz, nortneast or town, dranK a com- oiu i iiui os unrtti-iivu, in lih x saw omauon or Keroseno ana otner mgre- agafn the exquisite Fee of the house. party; and Constance Dwight the beau ty. Both of these I outsripped iu at traction: But perhaps I am not as lovoable? Some men have found me so! Again I sec the look Sn the siek man 's eyes, when I carry '.back a pile of darned socks. - And Bdbby MaeAllistair? Aud Dr. Bixbyf And Bennic? ' Oh, what is the use of questioning? 1 have failed failed. Soon I must go back to the office. Day after day of tontine and so on I cannot sec ahead. But am I sorry that I took this veai-? Am I sorry that I went on this quests I No, no, no! It had been worth it. II have failed. " But I havo experience that 1 1 can never forget. I have paid. But1 loot too highly. I have seen a little, of! life. I have known; and I can under stand. The small clock on the mantel piece! ticks awt-y, Yoifmiiat-go-baiTi -go-back-! go-back." -.. '' . , - . -1 (MondfiyTrThe-Vain Heareh.) .'; ! dients fixed to use for cleaning, and was for a time very ill. A physician wr.s called und the child is now near recovery. Monkey-Talk. Professor Garner reports that the fo, male ape'ss-ys "Moohoo," and the male a)H replies "Wahoo." Evolution does n't appear to have carried us very rar. A chap on the moonlit beach last night said, "Who is oo?" and' the girl re plied, "I's oo 's." Snn Francisco Chron icle. Stayton. (Ca-pitalJonrnul Special Service.) The Brown-Pctzcl Lumber company has secured an order for twenty thou sand grade stakes to 1jc used in irriga tion work in Montana. The order comes from the U. S. government and the com I pany is now busy turning them out. ! E. B. Lockhart, former pastor here, , has returned from over-seas, where he MR. DAIRYMAN We now have B. K TAN TO, th DIRINFEC- greatest disinfectant on the market for use n round milking machinery, milk cows, separators, etc. Ask any dairyman that ever used it. He will tell you. FALL SEEDS ' . Scotts Mills Items. (Capital Journal Special Sorvico.) Hrolts Mills. Or., Oct. 18. The prune, pric king work commenced this week. As there ns uot a half crop the packing will not take, nearly so much time us it d'id last year. Our school is running this week with a tu II crops of teachers. The principal, ft. V. White, is from Carson, Wash. Mrs. Huulonis teaching the junior high while M;ss Fierce 1ms the piimnry room mid Miss Lulu Dalt. is leaching the In totmcibales. Air. uii 1 Mrs. Earl Dean left lust week for their home iu Muskegon, Mich. Airs. L. C. Hussell und children re turned lust week to their hump, iu Middle-ton. ....! Tho "miliiy Mends of 11. Kstcs and fnmilv will be sorry to leu-rn of the serl- j ous i Hacks of their sun, Walter. A tumor on the brain. His mother and ei der bnve taken him to Boston, Mass., to a speeinlist in such vases. He has hud two operations and hopes nre en teiluined of h'is ultimate recovery. C (i. Thomas w ho 1ms a prune orthnrd rpar Ptoble trapped and killed, a bear ltist week tlmt had been helping to hU prunes. It weighed about 600 liounds. Air. und Mrs. Fred Howe were Dusl jicss visitors in Silvertou lust Tuesday. Mrs. Eva Fruzier Kluiius, who has lieeu visit'ing in Spokane the past sum iner, has returned to her former hone here. , K I j, Frailer is here from Sulein. H.i is keeping the Prune Growers associa tiou ba iks during the packing and sale of the prunes. Miss Wyhind had the misfortuno to full from an apple tree Weducaduy. She diidocnted her ankle. Air. aud Mrs. V. I. Taylor, aceom lianied 7 the Alisses iVterauu uuioreo. to l'ortland Simduy evening and return ed her Monday. during the war. Salem has the factories in operation or under construction that will furnish permanent employ ment for the increased population, which must be housed or the industries will be crippled. It is an entirely differ ent situation from that faced in the past by Salem, when the city was over-built because it lacked the payrolls to sustain the new residents. The present emergency is not caused by a mushroom growth due to real estate inflation and speculation, but by a legitimate expansion of indus try. ' " . Salem faces the crisis of building- suitable housing accommodations or of stunting the city's development. It is an emergency which ought to call forth the construc tive energy and enterprise of the community and enlist the support of the monied interests. If the survey fails to en list outside capital, a local corporation should be organ ized, it's stock publicly subscribed, a tract of land secured ana contracts let to cover it with houses most of which would be sold before completion and all rented. Such an enterprise would in addition stimuulate private building and curb the rapacity of landlords and inflation of pro perty. ' - - : ' There is no use procrastinating ov dejaying on ac count of the high cost of building. These casts will not bo lessened materially for years to come, They are-regulated by the law of supply and demand, and a large part of the world awaits rebuilding and the rest of the world is far behind its actual needs. Besides the war, with its tre mendous increase of currency and enormous bond issues, established a new financial plane and the dollar will never regain its-old purchasing power. What is Salem going to do apout it? Build homes and grow as Astoria and Pendleton are, or pass up an oppo: tunity no other city possesses? Are we going to continue to drive people away and eventually industry, when a little monev could hp ably spent in converting the idle, empty upper floors of business houses into suitable apartments? Or are we go ing to preserve them as they are, fitting monuments to the "alem spirit. , The future of Salem lies with thp npnnl t.seif' we are not going to attempt to solve the housing l"uu,ii"i "asini lu auvei use our resources and industries and invite population we cannot house and hence do not want. pastor. Mii Moore, one of the Stayton teach ers who has been .quite ill, 'is reported considerably improved, - Miss Nor.i Crabtree lias been teaching iu the 5th and bth grades the past week. It is reported that , contracts have been let lor the grading of the Willam ette Valley & Southern between Stay ton and Mt. Arigcl. ' Mr. Sell, representing the Portland Wool & Warehouse company, purchasers of tho Wilbur Woolen Mills, has been m town several days. He savs the com pany Ss well pleased with their purchase, im win soon install now machinery and enlarge the eapaojty of tho mill. Sev eral hands are new at work there, nnrl it sounds good tohear the w-histle lloy ouco more. '- , , ticorge E. Beedle- lias been in Van couver, Wash., .'several days, .t ; Mrs. James ;fiossoll,v who i is 'iu. the hospital at Scio. is reported improving Mrs. S. B. Coli? viisted Albany the first of the week;:,, Olen B. Munkcrsiand wifo' of 8k--Francisco, Cal., are hero, culled by the serious illness o hj,father, FT M. Mun kers. Mr. Munkers daughter, Mrs. J. H. Mulchay of Sun. Francisco is also here wfith her childronr(., - Mrs. Horace LUJy- and Misses Bender, Dnko and Huliv, sn-honl teachers, motor od to Corvalfia Salarday. ' .. l)r. Brewer this week removed tonsils and adenoids from Henry Allis and Mar tin and Mina Gehlen. ' ' .Wayne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bay J. Fox of Lyons, was quite badly injured in a colision with an auto. He was rid ing a biycle and was run into by the maohiiie..Iie is renorted ly. Floyd Crabtree, who recently pur chased the Wright property in the west part of town, husi.made another pur chase of realstRte, this, time liming n tract of about fMfrero telnmr'in Mrs. Hhreve, near his nt.hrr nlnnn rr "We ha-ve a complete stock of all kinds of Fall Grain, Mixed Vetch and Oats, Vetch Seed, Fall Bye, Cheat Seed, Fall Oafs, Fall Wheat, all kinds of Grass and Clover Seeds, all cleaned in first class shape and sold at the lowest possible prices. Call and see us 0r send us your list for prices. - . D. A. WHITE & SONS y-y-, : alias 1 - ui I f jnQ&f f rt JSC ti n Vw P1HONE 160 255 STATE. ST. Salehi, Oregon Ready for Delivery 1920 MODELS 2 Jordan, Silhouette. Disk Wheels. . 2 Mitchell. Victorv Model t , 1 HupiEobile and 1 Maxwell OSCAR B. GINGRICH Motor and Tire Co. Court Street. HUNTING A HUSBAND By Mary Douglas QUESTIONING THE FAST One Consolation. Voiith sowing their wild oats now aday can't mix iu so much rye. Boston 1t tinscrijil. ABB HASTEN 4.'. - c TW feller that used t' hesitate about l.uAiin' a five don't tiiiaif uothiu' these dny o rushin' a frosh Liberty bond ever" imirniii'. Joe Kite has got a hair lip from drinking' quinine tonic. Home again. I hated to leave Aunt Kin'ily's. And that sleepy ld air of South Minster, an utmosphero that seem ed to say, "Nothing has happened and uotliiug will ever hivppen." And yet so much has huppenod to just me. Hut I could not stay on with Aunt Kmily. To be reminded at each sight of lii-r reproachful face that 1 was letting slip my one chnnee of happiness. I am sure that Cousin Sum did not fee) badly at my duparturo, -,. jtatlier rid of a 'tiresome necessityfor that is what our marriage would linve been. ,. Tt Ko 1 inn bnck to open tho house. And : to be ready for mother, who will return ' in a week. - i I go about the little rooms, taking off coverings, unwrapping pietures, und I try to work. Try to fcin'et myself un 1 my problems. I opened tho hall eloset. There lav a small object on the floor. I picked it up. I knew it at once. One of Jim Merle's gray gloves. How ninny months has it lain there forgotten f Anil how nwinv tilings, have happened sincef It can be put off no longer, I must face thitiL's. 1 huve been hunting u litis baud. And have I sucecededt, N, can onlv sav ngninwno. There- have been men who would mar ly me a professor n doctor -one limn whom I cured for; and J looked at the squecxed fingers of that big gray glove. Men thnt would marry too. Men I would not marry. S0 I have failed tailed utterly. It was oil a wild, queer thing to do. I went out Sn aeach of what for me is tho unattainable. I choked buck a little sob. Why have I fuiledf Am I not as worthy as other girlsf 1 thought ajraiu of .leavmie and Horothv Fraxior, with their shallow natures. Yes. I can answer j finuklv, I have tried to be. Am 1 not as true, as loyal! There was Jack Wilson. I hnd not once over utepped bounds with him. Yet 1 had run away to snve Harriet unhr.ppiness. Had I not saved Professor Coe's pride at tho cost of my humbled feelings!. expects to go into, the berrv luisineaa extensively. The prospect of a rsilroad. with nde. qunte transportation facilities is giving "''TV inuustry a stnrf, and n num ber of people with small traets here abouts are preparing to plant logans and strawberries. Th land about Stnvton is wonderfully adapted to the growth of these berries. .' Members of the high school held hi chtneing party in Kcauc.hamp 's hall Tries day evening. j L. A. Thomas is giving the Forest Mnck home a coat of paint. He is being assisted by Mr. Ferguson, son-in-law of T. C. Crabtree, who is on experienced painter. i ' M. W. Goller of Vancouver, 'Vt'nBli., is employed in the W. A. Cladek black smith shop. Mrs. J. T. Pieser have gone for a visit of sevoril days with relatives in south ern Oregon. - Miss Cncelia Miekle left Saturday morning for an ovor Sunday visit with friends In Corvnllis. ' J. T. Pieser, who purchased the Per cheron stallion at the J. F. Bichards aalo has sold the animal to eastern Or-v WHITE SEWING ARE BEST MACHINES nft.f.;.'i.:;il "i mm n itt i We are exclusive agents for the New White Rotary Sewing Machines. This machine is made in three styles. We will allow you a good credit on your old machine as part pay ment and give you easy terms on the balance. 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