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s A GOOD SYSTEM GONE WRONG
The American people have seldom exhibited greater wis
dom than they did when they invented the parole board for
penal institutions. It added a truly human element to the
treatment of criminals. But they have gone to the opposite
extreme in their attitude toward the parole board, now that
they have created it.
Instead of giving it the careful consideration that all
human institutions require, they have gone away and left
' it to run itself as though it were a piece of automatic ma
chinery. Seldom has there been a more evident gap between
theory and performiince. Seldom has it been more clearly
proved that even the best of governmental ideas will not
work in a democracy unless it is put into the hands of wise
and conscientious men who are fully supported by an en
lightened public opinion.
All of this comes to mind as a result of the sad experience
which the state of Ohio has had recently. In the past month
in that state there have been three murders committed by
paroled ex-convicts. Two of the murders were uncommonly
atrocious.' ,....
Each of the paroled men had been out of prison only a
r short time when he committed murder. In each case it is
very easy to see, now, that the parole was a tragic mistake.
And in each case all that Ohio can do about it is to punish the
guilty man and hope that such a thing will not happen again.
Unfortunately, such incidents and almost everv state
has similar ones lead to a general outcry against the parole I
system itseit, urging that when men are convicted of crimes
they should be compelled to serve out the entire sentence
without being shown any leniency under any circumstances, j
The public sees thugs at large, committing new crimes before '
their original sentences have expired, and quite naturally it j
wonaers 11 tne parole system isn t a mistake from start to
finish.
What they fail to' see is that it isn't the system that is all
wrong so much as it is our way of handling it. The parole
system is everything that its supporters claim or it would
be if it were properly administered. No iron-clad system of
rigid sentences can fail to work injustice. The parole system
tries to make criminal procedure elastic enough to provide
justice for all, and to prevent the making of hardened crim
inals out of men who slipped once but would go straight if
given another chance.
But we have left the system, in many instances, to run
itself; which means, of course, that politics has put in its
Tiand and made a mess of things. What we need to do nbw
t is to revamp our method of administering the parole system.
yur own ncetuossness is what is really the matter, just as
in many other governmental problems.
DANGER IN ECONOMY '
The cry for economy that is abroad throughout the land
is a sensible demand on the part of people everywhere.
Governments local, state and federal have spent too
much money. The time for retrenchment is at hand, and
expenses should bo reduced until people are better able to
bear the costs of unnecessary activities.
That is where the rub comes. What one man considers
unessential, another insists is vital and necessary. To agree
upon items to bo chopped out of an appropriation bill is never
an easy job for legislators, or for citizens.
However, there is one thing that should be unheld. Thnf.
is sound and sensible expenditure in behalf of public educa-'
tion. Nothing has done as much for the nation as the money J
put on our public schools. Nothing would do as much harm '
m our opinion, as a iooiish and absurd policy of retrench
ment that would cripple our schools.
There are in school affairs, like every other activity, some
unessentials, some extravagances inherited from ih'e boom
days. These must, and should be, clipped. In case of doubt
however, it would be better to retain them than to dispense
with them before we are certain of our ground.
Chats With
Parents
A DlSII.Ll SIONKI) CHILD
By Alice Juilson Pfsile
Perhaps one of the most disillu
sioning discoveries that a child
makes Is that his parents are not,
after all, omnipotent.
A little boy, whose father denied
him a toy because he said that he
had not the money to spare, asked
him why ho did not make some
then.
"I can't Just make money.' the
father explained. "1 have to earn
it."
"But I thought you were a king
and kings can do anything," was the
plainly 4sappointed reply.
The child's disappointment is
Injury to his self-esteem which such
a discovery entallt. His father Is a
part of himself. - His presumable
omnipotence increased the child's
own feeling of importance. In the
nursery such disappointments arc not
se'Jous, for the child readily adjusts
himself to the newly discovered fact.
It Is when In school he hears re
marks which lead bim to the con
clusion that his father Is not as rich
BEH'ARIv DANGER AHEAD!
As we see It. this country Is go
ing to need clear thinking during
the next six months or more, as
NEVER BEFORE.
Already people are coming into this
offlco to herald Tuesday's election as
a great victory for the Democrats, and
a great triumph for the Wets. t ,
In one sense this of course Is true
the Democrats won a great victory;
the Wets triumphed In this state and
throughout the country.
But In another sense, this inter
pretation Is & mistaken one, and un
less this mistake is recognized, great
and lasting harm may be done.
If, for example, the Democrats
should take this victory to mean,
popular repudiation of established
Republican policies tariff protection.
sound' money, the Hoover program of
rehabilitation ' and reconstruction.
etc.,' etc, they would be guilty of a
serious perhaps a fatal blunder.
They would fail to realize that this
tremendous vote . was essentially
PROTEST vote a blind revolt against
the party In power not an endorse
ment of either Governor Roosevelt
personally or the traditional policies
of the party he represents. More than
that it was a revolt in which hun
dreds of thousands of Republicans,
who still believe in fundamental Re
publican principles, Joined, and with
out whom the Democratic triumph
would have been Impossible and with
out whose support they can't succeed.
him. and telling him he should not; In the same way, if the radical Wets
talk about such things they will have ' should take this; wet vote as merely
for Quality"
Impressed him with the fact that
they feel inferior and so the child
concludes they really must be.
FARM Pltom tTS PAY FEES
OF J!HI COLLEGE STL' DENTS
expressing a desire for a drink, pull
ing down the bars and flooding this
country with beer and light wines, be
fore some machinery for proper regu
lation has been set up, they would
also be guilty of a serious, perhaps
a fatal, blunder.
For the wet vote, as we see It, was
BANNERS ELK. N. f! f.v . a cec '
tern of accenting farm nroH,, tr ' NOT that. It .wasn't so much a vote
or as smart or an Important .a .per- student for expenses at Lees-McRae FOH llo.uor- ' as a protest vote
sonage as the fathers of other chil- college here has enabled 100 to re- ' AGAINST Prohibition a part of the
dren that he really is likely to suf-main jn school this year "! overwhelming resentment against
fer. ' tw. u . . . I conditions as they are, and the de-
At such time, th parent own ! JatL tTsuly'the cZlerX' ' mand f" 8 CIWNOE' W"rt n man
polso when he begins to discuss the f ,, PP'y the coll68e tor " ; date expressed or Implied, as to pre-
subject with them makes a great deal
of difference. If they are su:e of
themselves; If they discuss their stat
us frankly and naturally; If In short
they give no evidence of feeling In
ferior the child can usually make
peace with the facts, whatever they
may be.
But If they show that lils remarks
founded In part, at least, upon .the t upset them by becoming angry with
At the beginning of the f!:jrt se-1 SHOULD that change result In
mester the college took in on stu- turning liberty Into license; In re
dent account eight cows, one mule, tarding the progress of true tem
470 pounds of beef. 84 pounds of perancc. Instead of accelerating It;
honey, and many bushels of grain. In making conditions from a moral
j standpoint WOBSB Instead of BE7T-
Odd Sleeping Posture TER, then there would be a popular
Ducks, geese, ilamingos and her-
revolt, so overwhelmingly, that this
country - at the next election would
ons often sleep standing on one lee councrJ;'al V ne '
' c not only go bone dry.
but stay i
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certainly for a generation, perhaps in
definitely. In other words a great responsibil
ity rests' upon the shoulders of the
new leaders of the Democratic party,
who sincerely wish to lead this coun
try to a "better day" and a great
responsibility rests upon the shoul
ders of those, who oppose prohibition,
and want a system of liquor control,
which will be t.n improvement, from
both an economic and a moral stand
point, over the present one.
"Go slow, don't let control get into
the hands of rabid Democratic par
tisans. on one hand;
Wets on the other." That should
and we hope will be the watchword
of both factions.
If it ISNT If the wild-eyed radl-
tia w gum cuniroi tneu im gnmi. ,t came through the lungs, the re
victory, instead of offering a golden I It wcre likelr to be dlsafitrous.
LOGIC AND MEDICINE
Whenever the dictates of simple
logic are applied to medical practice
without the safeguarding checks of
experiment and experience, serious
results are likely to follow.
Among certain primitive peoples
the treatment of pus infections In
the chest consisted In making
scratches in the scalp. These wounds
, . . i would oecome miected and pus
or the rabid fn,u .
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Their logic for this procedu:e was
simple. They argued that there was
pus in the body and that the pus
sought for a way to come out. When
opportunity for useful service, may
well prove merely a pitfall, leading to
failure and ultimate destruction
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Herbert Homer w ill he ev-Prw.lilmt Homer nevt Mnrrli I . . . and lliere ore liiillnilliins Hint lie may heroine eoiinrrtnl Willi Lelaml slan-
furcl iinlvmltr Kv-iresllrn!s ham done varied tlilnss. . . . Mimnx-. a poor man. was clad to serve many years as Justice of the
pini-e, nhiTcus Tiifl served as elilet Ju.llie of the I', s. supreme conn. . . . (ininl tailed In the hanking and hrokriiise business, but Cool-
hlRe has been aellve as director of a life Insurance company. '
Hy HODM'.V Ill'TrilKIl
(NEA BchvIco Correspondent)
WASHINOTON On March 4. the United States will have two living
cx-presldenta, Calvin CoolldKe and Herbert Hoover, for whom no nntlonal
reward other thnn Blory has been provided.
CoollrtKO. upon retirement, went Into tho writing game, and did very
well. Ho also Is a member of tho board of the New York Lite Insurance
company.
Hoover plans to lieturn to private life, he hns announced. That
feems to be a welcome haven to most of our ex-prcsldents, and even
Theodore- Koosevelt once.aald. "There Is something nttractlve about rc-
the provisional congress of the Confedefotc state, and also being elected
to its congress by Virginia. He died before he could serve. Andrew
Johnson, who came so close to Impeachment, was later elected to the
sennto from Tennessee.
Thcodoro Roosevelt could not quite keep out of politics after Ills term,
but he was a writer of unusual ability also.
William Howard Tart, after leaving the White House, performed not
Bble service In International arbitration, then served for nearly 10 years
...v., u.o.nuumi ua unti jusuce oi me supreme court.
Therefore, they reasoned, if they
scratched the scalp, the pus would
escape through the scalp and thus
the lungs would be soared.
.. J We have a counterpart to this fan-
MFXONI) DISTRICT tastlc reasoning In the common be-
ItBPRKSKNTATIVE lle n "Dad blood." There afle many
Walter M. Pierce has been elected Wh0 believe tnat Pimple and va
.J"i , , has Been elected eruptions represent
congressional representative from - , ( , . , . . . . V. ,
this the second district of Orppon. I mner'a's w'hlch the body Is trying
The democratic avalanche swamped, . f' , . ., .. ,
his opponent, Robert R. Butler. Re.- Tn0 u not ";isonable" in
publican incumbent, who had served ! th0 sense of the word, but
this district since 1928. Mr. Butler nevertheless some treatments exploit
will serve In the forthcoming short ; the ayra8e man's acceptance of rea
sesslon of congress, which usually re-i sole renlctllcs
mains in session until the prcsiden- Tnus has 1x611 offered such a rea
tlal inauguration In March. sonable explanation of and treatment
his successful fight for the congres- f ,Ian4, "nd dePMltecl the bauf
slonal seat. He and his able wife. ' fm P0,"6 we" not abla t0
Cornelia, Marvin Pierce, former state! c"lM,te "tm a"y other way.
librarian, attended meetings in every i ''"r? h ! f
major community in the county, and ere? both l".th bd "eld of ex"
Mr. Pierce talked to hundreds of Pcrlence nntl la th0 laboratory, shows
citizens here. I dlseases r tbe thyroid are due to
n. ' Imany causes.
Mr. Pierce Is one of the most
staunch Oregon Democrats. He was
born in Illinois In 1661 and came to
Oregon In 1883. He has been a far
mer, school teacher, superintendent
of schools, .county clerk, attorney.
state legislator and governor. He was
elected governor of the state In 1922,
and was defeated at the end of his
first term by the Republican, I; L.
Patterson.
Although, as we have said. Mr.
Pierce Is a great campaigner, his elec
tion at this time Ib hardly a great
personal triumph. Any Democrat
would probably have done as well or
better. Tho people were voting that
way. The new congressman is 71
years of age, and a prominent local ,
Democrat has told us that he has
promised' to step out of the picture
after one term. His Job Is being al
ready eyed by some of our well-known
politicians. Including our Informant.
A satisfactory factor In the Pierce
election Is the certain, definite ad
vantage which should come to the
district through its congressmen be
ing a member of the controlling
party In the house. That should
give Mr. Pierce opportunity to be of '.
real service to the district, and to j
tho country. This newspaper, which
mildly opposed Mr. Pierce, pledges '
him Its full cooperation In his efforta
toward that end. Klamath Palls Her- ;
aid. .'
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MENTAL AITKT1TK
What kind of race would we have if the minds of men mid
women demanded food with tho same insistence that the
stomach does ?
Suppose, your brain, if neprlected and forgotten for a tfny,
would set up the same insistent clamor for sustenance that
your appetite does. Would you know more, or do you, maybe,
take care of the normal cravinR that visits intelligent minds'
and see that you provide a diet for the thinking machine?
Truth is supposed to le the jroal of education and philoso
phy, and- religion, as well. The truth will "set vou five "
How many of us realize that the best pursuit of truth comes
only when a mind is free of passions, prejudices and popular
superstitions? How many of us make any systematic effort
to remove these cobwebs from our brain's?
concurs. He has Indicated he does not know what he will do when he
returns to Palo Alto as a prlvnte citizen.
Orover Cleveland, like Coolidcp. wn nn i,,., .. .
tiring from office and becoming a private citizen." Apparently Hoover Job as trustee of the Equitable Life Assurance soHet.v nf vv-t
it is novauic mni lew oi our ex-presldents have gone Into business,
most of them leaning toward literary or educational activities when they
renounce politics. One of the exceptions. General u. s. Grant, became
a partneii In Grunt Ward, a banking and brokerage firm. He had little
aptitude for the business, and never took an active part In it. The bus
iness was toreetl to bankruptcy, leaving Orant so poor that he pledged
his medals, swords and war trophies with William H. Vanderbllt for a
loan of S100.000 to make good his losses. Knowing he was dying of a
throat cancer. Grant wrote his memoirs for money to provide foj his
family. He flnl-hed four days ahead of death. Vanderbllt gave the war
collection to the National museum.
Many have felt thnt a man who has served his country as president
should he relieved of the necessity of seeking a livelihood. Pensions for
ex-presldents. like those of other civil servants, have been suggested
Roosevelt felt this would be "unpleasant." but Anc'rew Carnegie felt so
stsonsly on the subject that he once planned to endow every ex-presldcnt
with an Income of SJ5.000 a year. A storm of popular disapproval of any
such private benefactions for public servants arose, but the Carnegie
corporation Is even now authorised to make such payments If acceptable
But rumors are heard that he will also do some w.(iling, and possibly
that he will become Identified with Leland Stanford, his alma mater, In
which he has had a continued Interest since college c'iays. It ts sug
gested thnt he might become a chancellor of the university, or perhaps
lecture there. There would be excellent precedent for that, us Benjamin
Hnrrlson lectured on International law at Stanford after he became an
"Kx." Cleveland became a trustee of Princeton, ond occasionally lec
tured there. Mndlson became rector of the University of Virginia. Taft
lectured on law at Yale.
Most of our ex-presldents have kept tho wisdom and experlnec they
acquired In office at the dls)osal of the country in one way or another,
some unofficially by w:ltlng and iersonal contact, others by continuing
In the public service In lesser capacities.
John Adams nerved his state (Massachusetts) In an Important consti
tutional convention In 18-jo.
Thomas Jefferson, a poor nvan on leaving the White House, further
Impoverished hlmseU by continual entertaining of political friends at
Montleello, and yet had time to found the University of Virginia, and
denlftn Us buildings.
James Monroe, also a poor man. was content to accept the humble
olflcv of Justice of the peace, and filled It for many jw.rs at his homo
nenr Charlottesville, Va.
John Quliu-)' Adams was elected to concrcss f:om M.issai-Imsett
alter becoming an "Ex." He died "In harness." stricken with paralysis
on the very floor of the house. Martin Van Buren also kept In hand In
politics, running unsuccessfully tor the presidency again on the "Free
Soil" tlcss't in lata.
John Tyler was quite active alter hia term, serving as a member of
Carnegie, nevertheless, in his will, left SIO.000 a yoar to Taft and his
widow, and S5000 a year to the widows of Cleveland and Roosevelt. Those
presidents had been )ersonal friends.
A definite means of placing the experience and wisdom of ex-ptesldents
at the service of the government often has been dtscusseov senator
Royal 8. Copcland. for instance, proposed that all ex-presldents be made
life members of the senate, with tho privileges of the floor and the salary
of a senator. Without a constitutional amendment he could not vote
but his advice would be valuable In debate. Copeland felt.
Certainly It should be possible to find a better use for ex-presldents
than lh. one sardonically suggested by Benjamin Harrison: that they be
decapitated. .
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