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Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
ROOT COURT PLAN ADOPTED.
Clauses Giving Obligatory Powers
Eliminated.

Brussels.-The so-called Root plan
for an international court in connec-
ton with the League of Nations, with
few notifications has been adopted
by the League council in session here.
Leon Bourgeois, president Of the
council, confirmed the adoption of the
plan.
The council agreed to eliminate the
clauses in the Root plan which con.
ferred upon the court obligatory pow
ers. The council decides that the
League covenant gives the court no
authority to call litigants before it
against their will.
The seat of the new court will be at
The Hague and the body will begin its
deliberations next year, Bourgeois
said.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
AUTO OVER BANK; ONE DEAD.

Another Man Seriously Hurt Near
Cairo, w. Va.
Clarksburg, w. Van. E. Conway,
Richie county cattle buyer, was
killed, and John Nicholas, Ritchic
merchant, was seriously hurt when ar
automobile in which they were r'dino
went over an embankment near Cairo
according to word telephoned here.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
MOTHER SHOOTS TEACHER.

Chicago Woman Resents Reprimand
Administered To Her Son.
Chicago.-Incensed because her son
had been reprimanded Mrs. Carmila
Rindoni shot Miss Rosalind 1. Rey-
nolds, teacher, twice.
The shooting occurred after Mrs.
Rindoni had called at the McLAren
school to interview her. There was a
short argument and Mrs. Rindoni
pulled a revolver from her skirt and
fred twice. She escaped. The teacher
will recover.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
CANADA DELAYS ENVOY MATTEL
Dominion Thought Likely To Appoint
Minister Next Year.

Washington.-It was learned at the
British Embassy that the decision in
regard to the appointment Of Canad
ian Minister to Washington rested en-.
tirely with the Canadian Government,
and that the fact that no appointment
had been made was due to circum
stances which concerned the Canad
ian Government alone. It is under
stood that a Minister may be appoint
ed next year, although nothing def
mite has been decided.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
D'ANNUNZIo DENIES PLOT.

Poet-Warrior Issues Vigorous State.
ment In Reply To Rumors.
Rome.-Reports printed in newspa.
pers Of this city to the effect that
Capt. Gabrielle d'Annunzio was in.
volved in a plot intended to over.
turn the present Italian Government
have been denied by Captain d'Anun.
zio, according to reports from Fiume.
He has issued an official statement Wig
orously protesting against rumors that
he is intending to participate in a
coup de MAN," and adds he has never
been addicted to plots"
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
LANSING DENIES REPORT.

Declares He Does Not Intend To Write
Peace Secrets.
Washington. have no plans fer
writing about the peace conference
after election day."
This statement was made by Robert
Lansing, former Secretary of State
and delegate to the Paris conference.
when his attention was called to the
published report that after election
he will write the secrets of the Yer.
sailles Treaty.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
LOWER POSTAL RATE FAVORED
BurIeson Will Recommend Cne-cent
For Local DeIiverv

BurIeson Will Recommend Cne-Cent
For Local Delivery.
WashingtOn.-Postal estimates to be
submitted to Congress, Postmaster
General Burelson said, will not rec
ommend any increase in the two-cent
first class letter rate, in connection
with any plan of taxation revision, and
will renew the departments previous
recommendations for one-cent local
delivery rate.
The Postmaster-G General estimates
that reduction of the local delivery
rate would probably increase postal
revenue rather than decrease it.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
sATrLEsHlP GETS TROPHY.

Oklahoma Is Awarded Bronze For
SmaII-Arms Excellence.
Washington.-The battleship Okla
homa attached to the Atlantic fleet
has been awarded bronze trophy for
excellence in small-arms practice for
vessels of the battleship class for the
year ending last June 80. Operat-
ing conditions in both the Pacific and
Asiatic fleets during the year were
such that only very limited amount
of small arms practice was conducted,
the Navy Department announced and
no trophies were awarded in those
fleets.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
BABYs RoMPERs HALT SUIT

Couple make Up" After Shopping For
Tots Clothes.
Chicago.-After instituting suit for
divorce from the father of her Swear.
old son, Mrs. Benjamin Widoff decided
that the boy needed new clothes.
The husband agreed to purchase
them.
The estranged couple decided to let
down the bars just once to shop for
the rompers. BY the time they had
finished buying baby's clothes they
were ON such good terms they decided
to forget about the divorce.
The suit has been dropped.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
TWO FAMILIES KILLED BY CAR

Five Persons Die When Interurbar
Hits Automobile.
Allentown, Pa.-Five persons-twc
families-were killed when a Lehigl,
Valley Transit Company car CRASHED
into an automobile near Quakertown
The dead are:
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartlie H. Fehnel, an(
daughter, Beatrice, 2 years old, ant
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. MILLER, all o.
Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
QUARANTINE FOR AlRPLANES.
Same Regulations AS Apply To Ships
viii Be Enforced.

Same Regulations As Apply TO SHIPS
viii Be Enforced.
Washington. - Airplanes entering
the United States from foreign coun-
tries will be subject, after Novem Der
/, to the same quarantine regulations
as apply to steamers coming from
foreign ports, it was stated at the
Public Health Service.
The first airplane health inspector
will be at Key West, Fla, where many
planes arrive from Cuba. The air
ships must obtain bills Of health from
the American Consul at Havana before
leaving that city.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
GOTHAM LANDLORD JOLTED.

Jury, Under New Law, Cuts His &c
Per Cent. Raise To 10.
New York.-The first landlord to
face q Jury under New York's new
rent laws received a jolt when the
jury awarded him permission to raise
his rent 10 per cent instead of the
66 per cent he had sought to get out
Of his tenant. 1T marks the doom Of
New York's realty" said David Sha-
piro. the landlord, when the verdict
was read.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
FLOUR DROPS 81 A BARREL.

Quotation OF $10.85 Reached At Min
neapolis Mill.
MISUNDERSTANDING the break
in the wheat market -four dropped as
much as 81 barrel at local mills. At
the largest mill the price for family
patents was reduced to $11 from $12 a
barrel, while at another mill decline
of IS cents went into effect, it's quo
tation being $10.85 barrel.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
PLANS FOR 81 SHIPS APPROVED
Thirty Passed BY Ship Board Are To
Be Tankers.

Washington. - Approval was an
nounced by the Shipping Board of the
construction of 81 vessels, aggregating
$4,000 lightweight tons, under the
provisions Of the Merchant Marine act,
which exempts ship owners from pay
ment of the excess profits tax if an
amount equal to the tax is devoted to
shipbuilding.
Thirty of the new vessels are to be
tankers and one a fivesmast wooden
schooner OF the tankers, IA are be-
ing built for the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey and 10 for the
Standard Transportation Company OF
New York.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
BOLSHEVIKI TAKE cHITA.
Seat of Semenoff Anti-Soviet Regime
Reported Captured.

Reported Captured.
Vladivostok. ~ Opponents Of the
Semenoff Anti-Bolshevik regime occu.
pied Chita, the capital, and overthrow
the temporary assembly, according to
a wireless from Chita received here.
General Semenoff escaped in an air.
plane, but the japanese military and
diplomatic mission remained behind
The message said the fate of tho
Japanese representatives remains in
doubt.
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
WOMAN FOUND MURDERED.

Body Discovered In Clurp OF Trees
On Staten Island.
New York.-The body OF an uni
IDENTIFIED woman with piece OF ma
Middletown transcript., 1920-10-30
DISTINCTIVE
Printing!

q Printing that will
attract attention and
put your advertising
in a class by itself
printingthatco
originality in con-
ception and excel
lence in its execution
- this quality of
originality and in
dividuality character
ICES all the printed
work we turn out.
.Sa5
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
MACHINE POLITICS

Among the constitutional amendments to be voted upon in
Fridays primaries is to make the president of the senate
governor in of the death disability of the executive and
IN case both governor and president of the are unable
discharge gubenatona duties provides that the speaker of
the house of representatives become The present
stuon provides that the secretary of state succeeds the
ernor's chair.
This measure the product of machine politics and was
fathered by the professional politicians that control the ep
tive steamroer and designed give the power prestige of
the governors office to the O Guard that dominates the
ganization"
The election of president of the and speaker of the
house accomplished by devious methods of log rolling political
trades and swaps and the invisible influence that sways gsa
ton Through it. the organization built up the charmanshps
awarded the committee assignments apportoned and the egis
aon of the session controlled The people nothing to saw
in the selection.
Inc people OF Oregon have repeatedly rejected legislative
nkeg designed to provide the governorshp other
than that stipulated in the constitution whereby the secretary
'f state becomes governor This is the vicious of similar
proposed in that depves the people from voice in
he matter eevate the creation of political machine and will
end to make the struggle the presidency and speaershp
statewide scandal
Vote 909 No.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
@. 0. P. Convention SNAPSHOTS
THE STORY OF 16 NOMINATIONS
BY A. H. vANDENBERG

+ If history teaches anything at all
here are the tables. And here-ir
snapshots that picture the essentia
hlgh-spots in the Republican story o.
more than half-a-c -century-is tat
chronological record. 1t is as fasein.
attng as romance. Sometimes il i,
tragic, Always it is the life-story OF
America.
There is liberal rivalry for the hon
or of original hospitality to national
Republicanism. Michigan ("Undel
the oaks" at Jaekson) has the most
generally recognized claim, with Gre
dentials dated July 6, 1854.
One week later July 13, 1S54
wisconsin held convention at Mad
ison. On the same day ohioans acted
at Columbus; and similarly Indiana
ana Vermont Abolitionists pro-
nounced Republican" baptismal
rights. Massachusetts followed at
worcester July 10, 1854 'in co-oner-
atlon with friends of freedom in sister
states" N'''N'
Greeley's "Whig Almanac" shows
that Republican tickets also appeared
thls same year in Maine, Illinois and
iowa. But 1t was not until two years
later that Republicanism Organized
national proportions and bid for ma
tional acknowledgment
continued tomorrow. with the
story Of the First Convention
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
THE AGRICULTURAL CoLLECE.

No the Capital Journal of undue parav to
the oregon Agricultural College is only after thorough and
extended investigation that its support of the mage bill as
essay for the future welfare of the institution and state has been
accorded ~
The work Of he O. c. organized in three main divisions
instruction. experiment station and extension service
W Is better equipped as to plant than the state university but
W also overcrowded by the great growth in attendance and
crippled with insufficient income The purchasing power of the
xed income has been cut in two and expenditures multiplied
The institution well managed and conducted upon the basis
ol centc supervision prevalent great industrial enterprises
Inc buildings are substantially constructed and suitably arranged
ITS 1920 support derived from the present mage tax
supplemented by special appropriation from the state of
Tor maintenance and $4,000 for buildings $6 800 from the
United States government and $7S from student fees It's
romen totals 34OS full students 147 short
students total OF 1926 receiving instruction The cost per full
student $3.50 and the cost of buildings per stud
ent, $5o9, both the lowest in the United States
The growth Of the student body the past two years
sowpn by the increased enrolment for full year from
ooo III l97lS to 3408 in 19190-over double In the same
Time the revenue from the mage bill has increased only
S25o0Oso oe that the agricultural college faces
very real financial crisis to maintain it's sphere of usefulness
lhere IS lack OF buildings and lack Of rooms even
lack OF Observation-Disclosures lack Of money.
Ihe A. occupies very useful field It has revolution
zed farming, fruit raising dayng and stock-raising It
mas Taught how to restore the wornout land and to scie
caly farm 1t for increased yields; how fight pests and
make agriculture profitable It educating thousands of young
men and women in vocational and scientific for practical
careers and merits the support that secure continue
It's mertorlous work This support only be secured by vo
ng yes on the millage bill Vote 310 x yes
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
Chinese Strikes
Boycott Products
OF The Japanese

Honolulu, 7, H,-~-Chinese merchant.
OF Honolulu are conducting a strict
boycott Of Japanese goods aud dealers
according to w. c. Gee, prominent
Chinese merchant of the CITY and son
of Goo Kin Fook, president Of Inc
Honolulu Chinese Merchants assocla-
tlon.
The proportion of Chinese stores m
CHINA, which abstain from handling
all things Japanese Is nine out OF ton.
aecordlngto Goo, who added that the
proportion IL not quite so high IN
Honolulu but that Il is growing daily.
Goo stated that Chinese firms ~
China which do buy and handle jana
nese goods In turn are boyeotted ana
that similar procedure is being direc,.
ed against such Chinese firms in Hono
lulu
He predicted that In the near m.
ture there would be no Japanese goods
handled BY Chinese merchants.
Whether the Japanese were retaIiat.
ang IN kind, Goo was not prepared 10
say but fouehi Furya, acting consult
general Of Japan, said that SO far MS
ne knew the relations between Jana
nese ana Chinese merchants In Hono- |
lulu were cordial.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
Seen Through
Journal WINDOW

Much has often been said about the
sweet sixteen grille and have al
times become somewhat skeptfcal
about the whole proposition. and have
heen 81 loss to know at just what age
O girl is the Sweetest"
This brings to mind the Old Latin
maxim Of the fellow who kissed the
COW; "degustibus non est disputan.
dnm'-there is no dlsputing about
taste. And right at this critical per-
lod of meditation comes the story
from the east relative to the sad mis-
fortune Of Gloria Davenport sweet
sixteen and daughter Of the late
Homer Davenport silvertons own
eaItoonist and native son.
According to reports Miss Daven. !.
port fell down flight Of stairs at the
Taimadge studio In New York Clty
ana great was the fall thereof Miss
davenport is said to weigh exactly
three hundred pounds dressed Re-
SIDES causing q loss to the motion pic-
ture producer Of $1,000, two persons
were knocked unconscious ana tho
production OF Perfect Women" was
interrupted.
Strange, isn't il that a girl of "sweet
sixteen should interrupt Perfect
Wofnen?"
since this story has reached the
west | have come to the conclusIon
tnat there is no telling at Just what
age a girl Is the Sweetest" I nre-
sume It depends very much upon the
girl possessing those plain and unas
Stunning qualities OF modesty ana
queenly elegance which are always
subjects OF admiration. The "svee,
sixteen problem is one In which tbera
are differences OF opinion, not only II |!
oifferent individuals, but at different
ages.
nave seen the cute baby girl with
her sweet" angelic smile and prattling
voice" sweetest thing on earth I II
nave seen others Of the same age whr.
N zero temperature between one
ana TWO o'clock on n winter morning Y
would walk man out of breath an n
two-step measure. There IL enough
Eall N this 70 make some preachers
say with Mr.. Plokwlck dem III"
nave seen those sweet" creatures.
dressed ~ bright colors and a school
Dag ON her arm, as she merrilv and .
happily trips along; and have seen !
'thers Of similar age with rusty shoes, /
rose hanging down, soiled dress ana
ahgled hair. pushed out OF the house
Q be rid Of ! have seen the same
contrast through life and sweet six.
cen has been no exception, but I [
ave never before seen or heard Of 4 n
~ OF that tender age interruptlng
Perfect Women, O
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
CHANGE OF BASE.

Kansas winds always blowing my path of life seems
thorny 50 I'm packing and going the groves of Caiforny
lhefe beside the sobhng shall sit and my singing fill
ed with punes and sweet emotion while the golden hours are
wgng Kansas heat is always hotter than the kind that starts
you sweatng Kansas rain full of water and each ay ge
Meng go to San Diego where the honey bees are buzzn
nere III I'LL myself with sago and sing anthems by the dozen
ihere the scenes most inspiring and the natives love them
dearly and man who lives by ng ought to earn ten dollars
yearly By the broad and blue Pacific I'll compose my dppy
sazas fed with yearnngs most terrific for the sunbaed
plains of Kansas Resting on my dovnv pillows after hours
fierce endeavor will watch the mighty pillows rolling as they've
oea loreye on II watch them IN their glory and remark d
isn't any," ~ " Nii"c sne1e
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
LOVE and MARRIED LIFE
By the Noted Author
IDAH MeGLONE GIBSON

/ Alice decidedly. "of course, In the
mans ewes. the woman tempted me-
is excuse enough, but for once. dear
brother, we agree upon one thing.
thai Ruth should allow her ex-hus-
band. even though he Is married to
another to see the children occasion
ally
I do not understand said. s'how
they could have been given EXCLUSIVES
ay into Ruth's guardianship. as there
wasn't a breath Of scandal In connec-
tion with the divorce"
Z think. said John. that Robbie
made a special agreement with Ruth
that she should have the children.
lie was 50 infatuated with Helen At
the time that he thought he wenla.
Aekef miss them, He ought to know.
for p h Is old = I am. Ehat snfatuazZ
|4en zff woman Is lhe shortest
fxzzt zaIAs - {azl4ss zxISzsnaeg
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17

When he was older. and had ehil
dren of his own, Long Bill often re.
marked that II was too bad Mr.. Tuf
tie didn't live in some other place
He makes my wife so nervous.r h.
used to exclaim. with new brood
of at least half-dozen youngsters tS
take care of every summer one has tc
watch sharp for Mr. Turtle wheneve,
the children play near the water
And Long Bin always took pains tc
tell his children of his own adventure
with Timothy Turtle and warn them
not to make such a mistake.
Luckily I sat exactly in the center
of Mr.. Turtles shell. so he couldn't
reach me-" Long Bill was explaining
to his family one day. But If I had
happened to perch on ais head I cer-
tainly wouldn't be here now"
"Oh, Mr.. Turtle is too slow to catch
me-" one of the youngsters boasted.
i saw him on the bank today; and
he only crawled."
"Ah! You don't Rhow him." Long
Bill Wren replied. when he wants
to, he can stand up on his hind legs
as quick as a wink. And he can dart
his head out just like a snake"
"Ugh!" Long Bilrs small SON
shivered as he spoke. II wish Mr.
Turtle would go away from our
creek"
He thinks it's his creek. Longl
Bill Wren observed. "He has lived in |
It years and years and years. Welll
have to get on with him as best we
can' for there's no doubt that Tim
othy Turtle is here to stay"
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
THE STORY BEGINS

When the seventeenth quadrennia
Republican National Convention
meets in Chicago on June s, of thi:
year, II will have Ga years of history
and precedents behind it, Nine OF
these preceding conventions have
been held in this same city. Eleven OF
the nominees named at these pre-
ceedlng conventions have been
elected.
California has provided one of these
16 preceding Presidential nominees:
illinois, 4; OHIO, 6; Maine, 1; New
York, 2. and Indiana, O. Of the Vice.
Presidential nominees, New York has
provided Z, and Indiana, 3; Illinois, / !;
New Jersey, 2; Tennessee, 1; Maine.
i; Massachusetts,, /. In other words,
In all this Ga years of Republican Ma
tional Convention history, ticket-tim-
Der has been confined to a total of
nine states.
Ten Presidential nominees have
peen named on single roll-call.
twice 1t has taken three roll calls lin
the cases of Lincoln and Hughes)
once, four roll calls (Blaine); once.
seven roll calls (Hayes); once, eight
roll calls (Harrison), and once. 36I
roll calls (Garfield). Fourteen times
nominees have been
named on single roll call--mutelyl
lestlrying to the fact that vice-P Pres
dents are made" and not born"
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
GENERAL ANSELL'S OPINION. {.

General Samuel T. Anse former Judge advocate general
the United States army who exposed the injustice of army court
mata and was forced resign from the army opposing the
official bureaucracy comments Senator Chamberans sue
cess In including reforms the new army bill to eliminate
abuses as follows:
Senator Chamberlain has done than any other living
man mas ever done to establish applications Of right and Justice
IN the army His fight upon archaic and unjust articles of war
about 70 result in very substantial liberalization and has gone
70 provide fair chance for just results maintenance of dis
cipine.
IN the lace OF static condition and obstinate opposition in
hgh places and in the department designed to conceal and
shield nettcienc in the face of almost nsuperabe obstacles
senator chamberlain became the instrument of glorious national
NO man contributed than he to an assurance
o victory and he did at time and under circumstances when
I required patriotic fearlessness of high order"
lhat is the opinion of high army officer upon Oregons
senator and the opinion of the people of the United States
generally Yet certain dsgruntd officeseekers in Oregon
ope to read Chamberlain out of his party reward for his eff
orts N helping to win the warpobaby the ororn hope
ver led BY envenomed spite and thwarted ambition
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17
See Crater Lake"
Portland Slogan

Portland, Or, May 17.-"See Crate,
Lake became Portland's official slo.
gan thursday morning when the post.
offlcee began canceling all outbount
mail with this insignia.
arrangements for making an inten.
sified campaign to popularize Crater
Lake National park with southern
Oregon was initiated with the intro
duction Of this postmark. The Wo-
mems Ad club committe, Mrs. W. p.
Strandborg and Miss Constance Mat
tlngiy, made the arrangements. Ex-
penses will be borne by the chamber
of commerce.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-17

frog, or perhaps a foolish ducklin:
who had not learned to be careful
/ It was no wonder that all th'
mother birds in the neignborhoot
used to warn their children to be
ware of Timothy Turtle. Did moi
Long Bill Wren, who lived among the
reeds on the bank of Black Creek
have narrow escape when he was
only few weeks old?
He had just learned to fly. And al
.haugh his mother had told him not
to leave the bank, he disobeyed her.
When she was not watching him he
sailed over the water for the first
time in his life and alighted on flat
object on top of rock.
Bill supposed it was a stone Tat
he was sitting on. And he felt so
proud of what he had done that he
cried, Look! Oh, look!'
His poor mother was dreadfully
frightened when she saw him.
Come backn she shrieked. You're
in great dangerl"
So Bill flew back to the bank as
fast as he could go.
WHAT have told you about Tim
othy Turtles" his mother asked him
sharply.
you've said to keep away from
him, or he might eat me-" young Bill
faltered,
Exactly his mother cried. "And
the moment I glance away, here you
go and sit right on his back! It's a
wonder you're alive"
Her son hung his head. And never
again did ne pick out perch until
he was sure it wasn't old Mr.. Turtle.