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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
Retail Food
Prices Rise
4.3 Percent

Washington, Sept. 17.-RetaiI
food prices increased an average
of 4.s per cent in August as COM
pared with July according to fig
ures made public today by the de-
partment of labor.
Potatoes Increased "a per cent
in the month, eggs 13 per cent,
pork chops and cheese 13 per cent,
butter 10 per cent, sugar 6 per
cent, ham and oranges per cent.
plate beef, fresh milk, oleomar-
garine and corn meal 2 per cent,
and becon, rolled oats, rice, canned
corn. canned peas and prunes 1
per cent.
Food prices in New York in
creased during the month 6 rer
cent; Chicago, New Orleans and
Washington, per cent; Kansas
City and Los Angeles, 4 per cent
St. Louis and San Francisco, 3 per
cent; Butte and Omaha, per
cent; Denver, Portland, Or, Salt
City and Seattle. l per cent.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
Air Forest
P atrol to
Stopped
Discontinuance of Fire
Watchers After Sea-
son Ends Ordered by
Secretary of War

Washington, Sept. 17.-The
secretary Of war, because Of lack
Of funds, has announced that the
aerial forest patrol will be discon-
tinued at the close Of the present
season.
The aerial forest patrol was es-
tablished in 1919. In 1920 twenty
nine planes were lent by the army
air service to the forestry service
for duty on the Pacific coast
states.
These few planes, the operating
of which was regarded by air serv-
ice officers as part Of the neces-
sary expense Of keeping units In
training, In two and a half months
in 1920 saved from destruction by
fire standing timber valued in ex-
cess of $35,000,000, or consider
ably more than the entire app.o-
priation that year for the air de-
lenses OF the United States.
The work Of the aerial Forest
patrol has been one Of the most
distinctively constructive achieve
ments growing out OF the postwar
adoption of aircraft to peace time
uses according to the aircraft year
book for 1921. In 1920 the TWEEN
ty-nine planes in the service pa
trolIed more than six and one
- r.a4I1tnya 1ar an
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17

willing to make atonement, is for
giveness for him not to be found in
your hearth"
mo. | am very sorry, but ex-
pect that | am harder than most
women. l do not think that Mr..
Benton would forgive me under
the same circumstances"
"Oh, l am quite sure that he
would, Mr.. Benton. The errand
upon which he has sent me here
shows that"
Well, you may go to him and
tell him that you have bsen un-
successful"
81 am very sorry. Mrs. Benton. "
Bah was silent.
This is your unalterable de-
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
Seattle Youth
Found Dead In
Room OF Hotel

Omaha, Neb., Sept. ia
young man, identified as Henry
l. Powell, 20, of Seattle. Wash
was found dead today on the floor
of his room In local hotel. where
he registered yesterday. Powell ap-
parently had been lying on his bed
reading a newspaper and had fall
len on the floor when attacked
with heart trouble. An autopsy,
however, probably viii be per-
formed. Officials said, to determine
the cause of death. There were
no marks of violence on the body.
Letters found in his possession
indicated he was on his way TO
Ames. Iowa, to enter college, and
that he had stopped off IN Omaha
to consult an eye specialist.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17

"oh. 1t is something that he
wants"
mo, Mrs. Benton. l gathered
from your husbands conversation
that it is not he, but you who wish
a divorce.
Isn't it rather strange, Mr.. Lar
rabee, that Mr.. Benton should
send his lawyer to me?"
mot strange at all. Mrs. Ben
ton. Your husband asked me to
see you and attempt to make re-
conciliation. He is perfectly will
ing to cry 'peccavi.
"Oh, he is willing to say, I have
sinned,' Is he?"
Yes. Mrs. Benton, and being
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
To
Attend DaDc,
Hubsr;i,.

Several carloads ., a..
VIII go to Albany next w.s ''''''a'|
evening e', al to attend the ban !.
Dy the Hubarians At ths .S'' !. sils|
OF their new hall, which y sUpsrlas|
been completed. accordiD, = ! = laa
Bing Knowland. The ,s'''lll y Alls|
was received yesterday. -'''a'iaa
The proceeds Of the a.,..
TO go toward defrayiur ~ass \. ~
pense OF bringing tbs ~ ~ y
marching club and its baua a'',sl \ 4
state fair here in uniform y ~
Announcement Of the sIr....
department that the uew 'aassl|
ment on the Pacific hirhv.rr re- !
tween Salem and jefferson N, I, 81
opened Wednesday assn,.' -
cherrians who make the trI0 !, ~
good road upon which e : ~ Z :
the drive. % ~AAa
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
Alleged Corner
Cutter Arrested

H. G. Shireman, $50 n. Winter
stret, was arrested last night by
Patrolman White on a charge Of
cutting a corner with his auto
mobile. He had turned east on
State from Commercial street at
the time.
Mr.. Shtreman is cited to appear
in the police court this afternoon.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
Plant Floral Shop
Opens for Business

Specializing n -: flowers, pot
ted plants and funeral designs
Arthur Plant, an experienced flor
ist. has opened a floral shop at
121 South Commercial street.
Mr.. Plant announces shat he
will carry complete stocks Of sea-
sonal and other flowers at all
times. The greenhouses OF the
new shop are located at 1898
South Thirteenth street. Tho nlrne
of the new firm is the Plant Floral
Shop.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17

eyes"
"Then Mr.. Benton has empow-
cred me to make you another prop
osttion. He will not in any way
contest your divorce and he wisnes
me to say to you that he has made
or will make Immediately upon my
return, an alimony allowance to
you of a hundred dollars Week.
looked atSBab to see what she
was going to do. 1t seemed to me
that she must waver under suen
generosity as this.
From her face I saw that she
was not going to yield. Her indig-
nation had resolved itself into q
mere case Of stubbornness. For 2
moment, l confess. had no pati-
ence for her, and then, thinking OF
the long years ahead, the long
years of loneliness - loneliness
that would always have sting OF
gossip and scandal about 1t instead
of the kindly coincidence of friends
II made one more effort to make
her change her mind.
ooh, Bah, won't you wait until
tomorrow? Remember this Is IT.
revocable after you have filed your
papers. You know you have prom
ised me to wait until tomorrow. :
81 promised you to wait until to-
morrow before I filed my papers,
but l want Mr.. Larrabee and Mr.
Benton also, to understand that |
am only waiting because l have
made that promise. You can tell
Mr.. Benton for me that will ac-
cept the money which he has ten
dered me because feel that 1t Is
due me and you can also say to
him that l will send my attorney
him tomorrow"
"That will be unnecessary, Mrs.
Benton. Mr.. Benton wished me
to prepare your case for you, pro-
vided you desired It,"
THANK you very much, Mr.. Lar
rabee. That will be satisfactory
to me-"
"Then I will bid you goodbye. "
Thoroughly disheartened, left
Bah without word. / knew that
she did not understand in any
way the great Importance of the
step she was taking. For the first
time l realized that she had always
been girl who had stubbornly
carried out her own ideas to the
end. She had wanted to marry
Duane Benton, and she had mar
ried him. And now she had said
she was going to divorce Duane
Benton, and she was going to do
do.
In a few minutes she came to
the door Of the nursery where /
had fled, and said: "Do you not
Alix, that we had better go
back to the shore? There is moth
Ing to eat here In the apartment
and l do not feel like showing my
self in any of the restaurants"
II guess that will be best" /
acquiesced.
Silently we went down to where
he motor had been standing all !,
he day in front of the apartment.
we saw no one.
And again we hardly spoke as
We returned to our shore cottage. I
The sun was setting in unwont-
ID splendor. The whole earth
vas bathed in crimson and gold.
But after the events of the after
loon it seemed to me that every
hing should be dull and gray.
Again l had that awful feeling
hat has come over me every time l
lave passed through a great crisis
the feeling of the implacability
( nature. | have never been able
o gain sympathy from the great
lother. Poets have sung Of her
reat compassion for the woes of
umanity, but to me, while she is
ot merciless, she is utterly indif-
erent to either the woes or joys
+ man.
Monday-A letter from Jeff
'urner.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
ALICIA HAMMERSLEY
A Woman Who Wouldn't Remarry
BY IDAH McGLONE GIBSON
The Noted Writer

Mrs. Benton's sister,"
Il would like very much to see
Mrs. Benton"
Without waiting for me, Bah
made her appearance. II am Mrs.
Benton, MIR. Larrabee. You have
business with me?"
"Yes. madame. Mr.. Benton sent
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17
Mr.. Larrabee, Attorney

AS none of the maids were in the
town apartment. opened the door
myself.
II am Mr.. Larrabee. Is this Mrs.
Benton?" said very kindly look
ing middle-aged gentleman.
mo, | am Mrs. Hammersley,
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17

A printers strike including h
the pressmen and feeders 4 4. I
many would soon increase ~ 4.
value Of the mark.-Bostop csss "
& Leather Reporter. '''
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17

Our tax hasn't lightened our
packs.-Columbia Is. C.) Record.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-17

JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

have the slightest suggestion Of undertaking,
And now consider this weekly, cnce
strident of voice and kicking at our doors with
hobnailed boots. Now it pads its way softly
and speaks in dulcet whispers-even when
addressing its old arch enemy, Big Business.
Serials and short stories take up twice the
space proportionately as in the days gone by
Here next is a monthly, a famous thun>
derer in its prime and named for undertakings
greatest militant apostle. In the last few
months it has, as you may have Observed
taken a new boom. But how? Not by re-
turn to the old methods, but simply by catch
ing up with the times in the fashions of popu-
lar fiction.
'This next example puzzles me yet, so
many years has it clung to its old dress. But
my information is that next month it, too,
will cast all that away, dispense entirely with
illustrations and then appear as magazine of
all fiction. Everywhere the writer Of articles
is being cast adrift.
"Our final example underwent only last
month the inevitable operation necessary To
save its life. 1t now is on the stands in an
entirely new garb, with every line of its text
iexcept a few pages of dramatic criticism(
cast in the form of fiction"
The expert gathered up the six examples
and tossed them back into his cabinet.
my advice to you, my friend" he con-
Guided, sis that you hasten to profit by their
experience. Forget the muckrake. Print no
information of any kind that Is heavier than
a cream puff. In short, catch up with the
fashions. Undertaking is no longer permissi3
BILE except in books, and even in book form
its only legitimate field is England. There
Margot Asquth and Lieutenant Colonel
Repington successfully bear onward bold
Tom Lawson's rake. But even these ceeb4
rites dare not touch anything really ticklish,
They assault only the envied lions of high
society, persons who never were and never
could be popular with the rabbIe."
The magazine editor got heavily to his feet,
cutched his brain child to his breast, bowed
his head in sad Difference.
Perhaps you're right" he muttered. ssPut
me down for another appointment with you
before the end of the week
ss@.azg
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

x VERY profession these days has its
~ consulting experts, journalism no less
than medicine and engineering. Thus
it has come about that one of the most
handsomely furnished offices in Grub Street
is that of a specialist who diagnoses for all
ing popular magazines His fees are as high
any famous surgeons and he is as deft
with the scalpel as the brothers Mayo.
The other day a visitor dropped into this
experts operating room in the course of a
consultation. The parent of an invalid
popular weekly anxiously paced the floor
while his pale brain child lay stretched on the
experts operating table undergoing examina-
ton for the cause of perilously feeble cir
culation.
The expert had decided that in this in
stance it would not be necessary to use the
X-rays.
"a simple case of ananlia,' he announced,
"due to lingering muckrakeitis. Have that re-
moved, change the patients diet and i'm
mediately the whole tone of his body will inl-
prove. I'll show you what mean'-
The expert opened cabinet and picking
out six popular magazines from it's crowded
SnelVeS, idiQ OUT LHe selection on the top OF
his desk.
''These six magazines he observed, "were
in their day-a dozen years or more ago-the
sensations of the magazine world. They all
built up their circulations chiefly upon diet
CT articles. And nearly all of these articles
were by muckrakers.
"But look at them to-day and note how
times have changed. The biggest money
maker of the lot, this fat monthly, was given
up to die barely five Or six years ago. One
of our experts saved it by major operation.
To-day it has won back all it's old popular
ity. How? By becoming a helpful manual
of inspiration to business men. 1t is the very
hymn book of success.
'This next one saved its imperiIed existence
by going in for sex fiction and other raw
pabulum alluring to the adolescent mind.
Rarely now does it print more than one or
two articles at the most. And these never
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Continued from page foau)

Us to Cammarilos hacienda" he said. "Try
to look pleased"
Gonell rode at Rita's side. He talked to
her of life, of sunshine, of youth, and the
precious certainty Of love. He told her of
Magella-the great mountains and the
plains. He spoke to her, with gentle in
sistence, of herself.
"You are an American. Yet you speak to
me in the language of my people-with your
eyes. You are beautiful You have been in
my dreams always-you have come with your
long brown hair spread over your shoulders,
with whispers that were just for me. You
are straight and flexible and swaying as the
stem of a young bamboo. You have stirred
my heart"
'In New York." Rita said, "no one says
things like that unless there is calcium moon
and slow music"
''In Magella,'' Gonelli answered, ''we say
things like that when we love-"
"You love easily"
I'VE are not subject to mean hesitations
and fears
That night the Nationalists made camp two
thousand feet above the river in scooped-
out pocket sheltered from the wind.
Pug" she said, ''haven't we had enough
of this?''
Pug lifted his haggard face from tinful
OF the enemy's coffee. "Sooner or LATER" he
said quietly, "I'll start something"
Presently the two men lay down side by
sice, surrounded by ring of Nationalists,
Who slept, wrapped in their gaudy ponchos,
on that side of the pocket which faced the
IL
ons OF these men sat on a rock directly in
'front.' Of Rita. She stared at his ponderous
shadow silhouetted against sky full of blaz-
ing stars. He wore wide -brimmed hat with
cnocolate-cream crown, and rifle lay across
MS knees. The other watcher sat at the head
OF the trail. thin, high harmony of snores
rose from the sleeping Nationalists.
Rita did not sleep. She was aware that
rug and Gonelli, for all their courage, were
auite helpless, They lay between the armed
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

kering for a shave. Well go straight up the
river bed and through the Indian trail"
Gonell and Rita had disappeared. Some
where in that smothering darkness they stood
heart to heart. Gonelli was saying: "Your
heart beats in tune to mine, amore.'
And Rita whispered: "Ive heard the mu-
sic of the world at last
When dawn came she was riding by Gone-
lis side. Before them Signor Pug sat upon
brisk pony and drove the twenty Nationalists
toward Magella.
Gonelli leaned over and caught Rita's hand.
He pointed, and in the deepening glow of that
amazing light she saw the trail that led toward
the future and reality.
Fade out" she said, and smiled into Co
nelli's eyes.
Mr.. Blanchard was bringing up the rear.
He looked, rubbed his fingers across his un-
shaven chin, grinned, and thought: Happy at
last. Amenp
Copyright, Dodd, Mead & Cob -ss&
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
THE PAPRIKA TRAIL

guard and the fringe of snoring banditt.
She alone could do-what might be done
If, for instance, her honorable goat tugged
at the leash. If twenty-five years
of having her own way had not destroyed in
her the essential qualities of her race-for-
titude, daring, and the ability to act quickly.
If she dared
She lay still, with closed eyes, pretending
sleep Then, by imperceptibe inches what
seemed to be hours of effort, she managed to
get behind that immovable Nationalist. He
paid no attention to her. At his feet fee
bic blaze licked at handful of sticks. His
hands grasped his rife.
81 can't do it," Rita thought, shiverng.
She glanced at Pug. He lay on his side,
facing her. And she saw that his eyes were
not closed; beneath his lids he gazed fixedly
at the wakeful Nationalist. Gonelli was ac-
tually asleep. The Neapolitan, he who had
fought for the liberty of Magella, had flung
his arms over his head in an attitude of des-
pair. Rita watched his face-ardent, spirit
ed, scornful-and knew at last that she pos
sessed heart. She felt it beating, riotous
and delicious; an unfamiliar chaos that as
founded her. She had no idea who this man
beautiful and had dared to tell her SO. He
touched her imagination. With frightened
leap of her heart she thought: 81 am going
to love him in spite of myself! A Magellan
A tattered, curly headed nobody! Romance
Oh, glory"
"Now," Rita said aloud.
She snatched the rifle, threw it down be-
tween Pug and Gonelli, and with single, vio-
lent shove pushed the Nationalist forward in
to the fire.
Madness followed. The guard at the head
of the trail woke from troubled sleep and
with howl fired in the wrong direction
The other lay in the embers and prayed. Pug,
catching the rifle, turned it expertly upon the
astounded Nationalists, who were between
this surprise and the edge of eternal space
They groaned and lifted their hands heaven
ward. while Gonelli, flying through the dark
ness, like the disembodied spirit of revenge,
came into violent contact with the guardian
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

Church-stories that would interest the mil
lions of church people in movie audiences
throughout America and the world? When
ever, with exceptions, the life of the
Church has been put into the film it has been
put there by people who have about as much
knowledge of the thing with which they are
dealing they have of the kinds of break
fast foods popular on Mars. Any one who
knows the life of the Church finds himself on
the verge of apoplexy as he watches the
nauseating sentimentality and false piety
characteristic of the folk on the screen who
are supposed to represent the Church. I
always feel-after deciding not to commit
murder-that I should like to take the pro-
ducer of such stuff by the hand and lead him
around the corner to a parish house and rub
him up against regular parson and the
wholesome American who makes up the rank
and file of church workers.
In addition to these unexplored fields is the
world of missionary work. / can see some
sophisticated producer smile behind his hand
as he reads this He has been fed up on the
stage and comic weekly caricature of the mis-
sionary-the moth-eaten looking person with
clothes that once adorned the well fed ro-
tundity of charitable church member, the
cient umbrella belted with string, the inev-
liable very large Bible under his arm, and an
ingrowing countenance. This gentleman is
meant to be funny but good many people
including producer, perhaps-take him to
be fair portrait.
Again, I should like to have sent this pro-
ducer off to Alaska to 'hit the trail' behind
the wiry weather-beaten Archdeacon Stuck,
of the Y11kou who was the first man tn climb
Mount Mckinley and whose death occurred
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

of those commandments. Here was the pic
ture of a civilization awaiting the work of
the translator, civilization of approximately
$500 B. c. 1t is one of the modern romances,
and has changed the views of Bible scholars
at many points.
And some one who films the story of the
development of the historical criticism of the
Bible will find romance a-plenty in the dis
covery Of the so-caled Codex Sinaiticus by
Tischendorf, one of the oldest of manuscripts
and one Of the most valuable to Bible scholars
The story will tell of days of fruitless search
III ST. Catharines Convent at the foot of Mt.
Sinai; of the arousing of suspicious on the
part of the monks over fragment of manu-
script found by Tischendorf in a basket of
waste paper intended for the lighting of fires
"a fragment which was called by the finder
the pearl of all his researches" which stirred
the literary world when it became known; of
a subsequent evening stroll with the steward
IN the monastery garden years later of the
arousing of his interest over the fragment of
manuscript, and the quelling of his suspicious;
of the visit of the two men to the little cell
of the monk; of the taking down from high
shelf of the remainder of the manuscript,
long cherished by the monk, who had no sus-
picion of its value, and of the final securing
of the manuscript with the aid of the Czar of
Russia, and its publication to the world.
Here. it seems to me, is an opportunity for
some one to do a film or films which will find
an audience of millions of people ready made.
But the opportunity doesn't stop here.
Who has told on the screen any of the
stories from real life centering around one
of the great East Side narish ho,1ses of Naw
York-or settlements connected with the
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

Bible elaborately and with historic and arts-
tic exactness Too many companies which have
produced Bible films have failed to consider
that they were attempting something that
quired more than the Bible text and knowl-
edge of the technique of film making. They
have apparently been ignorant of or placdly
indifferent to the revolutionary progress that
has been made in the field of Biblical research
during the last fifty years. And, without
charge, | hereby suggest to some producing
company film in the field of modern Biblical
research.
No field of investigation has been mere
thrilling. No scientific laboratory has pro-
duced more startling results than the labora
tories of scholars at work over ancient manu-
scripts of the Bible and other manuscripts
that have thrown floods of light on the Bible
Where could one find more interesting mate
rial to be woven into a film than the work
of excavation at Nippur, Egypt, with the re-
sulting revelations, when the tablets have been
translated at the University Of Pennsylvania?
And think of the film story hidden in the
code of Hammurabi, written on three enor-
nous fragments of black diorate, dug up in
1901 at the Acropolis of Susa, the ancient
Persepolis-a code revealing an advanced civ
ization, written hundreds of years before
the Ten Commandments and in some ways
showing ethical conceptions superior to some