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i. THE OHEGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON TTfESDAY-MORNTNQ, OCTOBER 17, 1923 - ' i EDITORIALS OF THE , PEO PLE QUARREL Vt NAM' OF CHRIST Editor Statesnvaa: I have no desire to enternto the general discussion no going on about the religious afd political upheaval ia the stateof Oregon only to say that IV reminds me of a book I once Vead the dedication of which wav'ToAll Those Who Quarrol la the Nam of Jesus Christ." MRS, R. HUMPHREY.. -FACTS ABOl . VROIURITIOX r Editor statesman: Tno. propa ganda of the liquor traffic to create thtf; Impression that, probl bit Ion Is a failure has influenced tk few good people to ask if prohi oltion ia really successful. Let us meet this issue squarely. ' ' One of the most frequent argu ments to prove thaCprohibltion is a failure is thcxstatement that more llquor,-in consumed and that it l.s easier'to procure than before we taVtirobihitlon. If that be : true yhy should tne l?auor people nose satisfied, and. why should vey continually urge the repeal or modification of the present law? if they can secure all the liquor they desire what becomes of .the arguments they made against prohibition before its en actment, of why do they Insist now that It robs the people of their rights. Who believes that it is easier to secure liquor now than before and who believes that the little stills bidden In stumps or stoves or cel lars or in little galleys in the mountains produce more than the smallest fraction of the amount formerly produced by the 600 or more distilleries In the United States, or that the improvised means of makinr home brew equals the millions of barrets of beer turned out by the 1,300 breweiies, or that the liquor smuggled over the border from Canada and Mexico constitute more than a modicum of that transported by the tralnload in refrigerator cars owned and lab eled by the great breweries of the country? Because our newspapers are so largely filled with accounts of crime, are we to conclude that the majority of the people are crim inals? The outlaws get notice be cause their acts are exceptional. The millions of law. abiding peo ple who sleep and rise and work get no mention, because their lives are honorable and normal, i It is PREMIUM COUPONS With 60 c ; Purchases or ;Mord . egl MMiEltl FREE With ord ers of $2 or over :-. SALE of SHOES ir " : For School Kids and Orowa-tTps ; . HEN'S FINE Kid Dress V Regular $7.50 value, gentiiue , Goodyear welt ; oak tanned lea ther - goles, Blucher tyle ; ; black only. All sizes. Special "$450 rift- r C1I i ther Work Shoes $2.98; 1 tThis selling , is truly exceptional , ;Tan or black, full box toes. Army last, work shoes; 'ith sturdy leather soles and heeL Regular $5.50 values. .." Slipp Ladies' and Girls' Fancy -Patent Leather ers Oxfords Regular $5.50 values, newest smart styles and featuring the Spanish heel. Five different styles in the group. Special $2.98 Men's Tan and Black " Dress Shoes $2,98 Values to $7.50. These are mostly odd lots, but nearly all sizes in the lot. Gir 15-Inch High-Top, Shoes Special $6.98 Regular $10.50. Just tne thing for the coming cold and wet weather at just a price that is lower than ordinary cost. All sizes. - " v UBSVMvy School Shoes . Special $1 .98 to $3.98 , ; s -These lines are of fine gun metal stock, English and Blucher style; all sizes for youths and, boys. School Boys' Heavy Scuffers ; Special $1.69 '.V1 Lace or button',' black or tan; all sizes in the lot. Reg ular $3.50 values. Special for Saturday and Monday. One Lot $7 grade, flne ' Ladies' Shoes , J Special $3.98 In various all leather styles and makes; high and low heels, black or brown; medium or short vamp. Special. In the Grocery Section 40 pounds Spuds ....50c 21 pounds dry Onions 60c - Make your Sauer Kraut now . ..: 22 pounds Cabbage ...60a the abnormal and the criminal that attracts attention. So it is with the millions of people who never violate the Eighteenth Amendment. It is the few who break this law whose names ap pear in the public press, and the liquor people encourage the publi cation of. these acts of lawlessness to create the impression that "everybody Is doing it," and that there is little or no sentiment in favor of prohibition, whereas the very contrary la true. What constitutes failure? Xo plan or work or Institution of man (s perfect. His endeavors are re. lative and not absolute in their approximation of the ideal. Yha' law is 100 per cent obered? Be cause a doctor does not save the lives of 100 per ten of his pa tients, or the lawyer does pot win 100 per cent of his cases,. or the tt-acher does not succeed with 100 per cent of her pupils, or because ministers do not win 100 per cent of their congregations, are they failures? Because marriage, one of the most holy and sacred of out institutions, is broken more than 100,000 times a year in this coun try by divorce, is marriage a fail ure? Because murder, the most heinous of crimes, is committed thousands of times each year, is the law against this offense a fail ure? because more than 500,000 people annually break some law and are committed to our penal and correctional institutions, is all law a failure? Because so many people are killed in automobile accidents, train wrecks or the fall of airships, are .these inventions faUures?- Because goods are smuggled into this country on shipboard and over the Canadian and Mexican borders ,are our traf fic laws a failure? Because money Is counterfeit is the law against counterfeiting to be repealed? There are hundreds of thousands of automobiles stolen every year but who advocates the repeal of the law against this offense? Be cause no form of government is satisfactory to, or respected by all people, does that prove that all government is a failure and 'should be abolished. If there were no law, of course there could be no law-violation. The argument against prohibition is that because It is sometimes violated it ought to be repealed. ! Why not follow the logic we use with reference to other crimes and vindicate the law by punishing those who break It? Let us consider a few facts. It cost about $6,250,000 to enforce the prohibition law In 1921., The taxes, fines, confiscations and other penalties imposed noon those who endeavored to violate the law amounted to more than $63,000,000. All of this amount was not collected but was asses sed and what could not be collect- , ed was held as a deterrent over the heads of the offenders. What other law can make as good show ing? It Is said that not one-fifth ; of the automobiles stolen were re covered, while the enforcement of prohibition, paid ten. times what it cost. . . Besides what the states did the Federal officials alone, for the year ending June 30, 1921, made 34,175 arrests, seized 413.987 gallons of disUued spirits, 428,- 303 gallons of wine, cider, etc, besides large quantities of beer, totaMng a value of 310,906,687, in addition to the property confisca iea wnicn was vaiuea at more than $10,000,000 more. The Record of Two Years Although national prohibition has been in effect onlv a little more than two years here are ten definite results: 1. The liquor traffic, which was ioxmeriy legalized and pro tected as a legimate industry, is now an outlaw and those who at CY REN A VAN GORDON IS ALSO AN ARTIST OF PADDED GLOVE if f s j ercise her power without the per- j mission or consent of the state. She has the right of perpetuating the union of church and state. She has a right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the only religion of the state, to the ex clusion of all others. She has the right to prevent the state from granting the public exercise of their own worship to persons im migrating from it. She has the po-ver of requiring the state not to permit free expression of opin ion." Taken from "Syllabus of Errors' by Pope Piux IX. And again, by Archbishop Quig lsv of Phieaaro. sneaking in the Holy Name parish school, "With in twenty years, this country is going to rule the world. Kings and emperors will pass away, "and ' he democracy of the . United States will take their place. The .West will dominate the country. and what I have seen of the west ern narochial schools has proved that the generations which follow us will be exclusively Catholic. When the United States rules the world, the Catholic church will rule the world." Opposition to our public school system, voiced by catholic lead ers, is so general that Mr. South's question seems hardly necessary. It denotes, however, a lack of understanding of a subject upon which we should all enlighten our- selyes -if FERN WELLS DAUGHERTY Classified Ad& In The Statesman Brina Results AioonFhine" Is rtDldlr tvi- the place of arsenic as a mean t shuffling off this mortal coll Ti agony Is not long-drawa-out. 1 A woman always looks on n 3 bright side of a mirror. r A TONIGHT TOMORROW THURSDAY KfC mam EY ' 1 ..- .. STOCK CO. Supporting VntQINIA STANTON lit . EASY ividNEY, c A Screaming Comedy Children nnder 12 -10c . (: , Adulti ,50c . ejgrtdar Picture Program Too , : v " BLIGH THEATRE Miss Cyrena Van Gordon, prima donna of the Chicago Opera company, who will appear in concert at the armory tonight, has pugilistic as well as musical inclinations. She is an artist with the eloves as well as with her voice. If you don't believe it, Just have a look at the above picture. Miss Van Gordon, who sings the roles of Ortrud in "Lohengrin and "Brunhilde" in "Die Walkyrie," finds the roles so strenuous that she has enrazed Bennv Yanscer. the boxing instructor of the Chicago Athletic Association, to give her lessons In the manly art. During the home season she and the "Tipton Slasher" enjoy lively bouts three times a week. x "It's the best exercise in the world for breath control," says the prima donna, and I d recommend it for otner singers. LtM GuamrttM Given M Legal Guaraatea Giveru Wm wd f KmVm hA bain continna work. to mt Gto-o-Bia rile Tntment. , SID OXOBS rBajtXAOT s!m . . . Ontos tempt to ply the trade are pro secuted as enemies of their kind and country. The whole attitude of the government, towards this evil is diametrically reversed, and that of itself is a gain of great importance and significance. 2. The distillery, the brewery. the winery and the open saloon have disappeared. Treating has virtually ceased, drunkenness has decreased so that an intoxicated man is rarely seen. 3. Jails, workhouses, prisons and homes for inebriates have diminished in number because the necessity for them has decreased. 4. Prohibition has made la- bor more efficient, reliablo and thrifty. 5. According to life insurance companies, the average 01 me nas lengthened, and infant mortality especially has decreased. 6. The need of public charity. especially for women and children has greatly diminished, while do mestic concord .and welfare have increased: Bank savings have in creased in number and size and with the result that in spite of the wave of unemployment there la comparatively little suffering. 7. Whatever the attitude of the adult population, which is in creasingly favorable, a generation is being reared wfthout the taste for liquor or the taint of alcohol In the blood. 8. The federal prohibit i o n commissioner is quoted as saying that the liquor imported is less than onerhaif of one per cent of that consumed under license, that the number of regular drinkers has been reduced from 2i,000,000 to 2,500.000 and that arrests for drunkenness under prohibition have decreased 60 per cent. 9. The number of moonshin ers, home brewers and bootleggers . Js negligible as compared with the ;60 distillers, 1,300 brewers and 177,000 saloon keepers who form erly flourished and fattened on the weakness of men and the suf fering of women and children. 10. There is a widening and deepening conviction that prohibi tion is beneficial morally, social ly, industrially, and a growing de termination to make it permanent. Salem, Oct. 6, 1922. MORAL WELFARE. Dress Goods Of Quality at. popular prices 36Vinch Silk Poplins, yard.. .....98c 40-inch Georgette Cfrepe yard. .. . $1.75 36-inch Taffetaa, all colors, yard $1.98 38-inch Black Taffeta, yard $1.39 iO-inch Crepe Satin, yard. $2.98 54-inch all wool French Serge, yard. $225 60-inch all wool Storm Serge, yard- $1.75 36-inch half wool Tricotine, yard 98c 36-inch half wool Serge, yard .75c 36-inch all wool Serge, yard $155 56-inch all wool Tricotine, yard $2.98 58-inch all wool Tweed Coating, yard....$2.50 GALE & GO. Commercial & Court Streets . Replies to Mr. South Editor Statesman Kindly al low me space in your paper to answer Mr. South's article in Sun day's Statesman. Mr. South indulges in several illogical and unfair comparisons, and asks a question which I feel constrained to answer. He upbraids Rev. Milllken for his "inconsistency" in raising funds for foreign missions while using his influence against de nominational grade schools at home, and suggests also, that Rev. MilUken adopt the Turk method of settling differences of opinion, rather than educating the public mind through news paper articles. - Are we to under stand that Mr. South favors the Turk method? Under our democratic system. Mr. Milllken and Mr. South haye the same opportunity of arguing their different viewpoints, and the public decides their respective merits at the ballot box. Mr- South's reference to foreign missions is not a logical one, be cause denominational schools are not being established- in heathen lands where a public school sys tern is already in operation. The question is asked by Mr South, what would happen if our electorate should carry a majority of Catholics if it would not be as reasonable for them to compel all children to attend parochial schools, and. insist that al pub lic schools be abolished. I do not intend to make this a religious issue, nor do I attack the. Cath olic religion, but in view of what seems to be a pitiful ignorance on Mr. South's part concerning the above, permit me to quote for his information, excerpts from speeches and writings of promin ent Catholics: "She the church has the right to require the state not to leave every man free to profess bis own religion. She has the right to ex- SERVICE DEPENDABLE MILLS GO. Highest DAmrr HARD Writ Msgs v & JLul 8 STOP RHEUMATISM WITH BED PEPPER When you are suffering, with rheumatism so you can hardly get around just try Red Pepper Rub and you will have the quick est relief known. Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers. Instant relief; Just as soon as you apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat. In three minutes it warms the sore spot through and through. Frees the blood circulation, breaks up the congestion and the old rheuma tism torture is gone. Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from red peppers, costs little at any drug store- Get a jar at once. 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