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THE OREGON StATESMAKf SAtEJtf OREGON r::r ' -i rTTn a V. MOANING; MARCH 27, 1923, mt leaned Daily Except Monday by . -. , THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 115 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Oftlce.723 Board of Trade Building. Phone Beacon 1193) '..-' MEMBKR OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tbe use for pubil eatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited S a a m ... a av at uii paper ana aiso u local news panusnea nerein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen Stone Ralph Glover . . . Trank Jaskoskl . . -U : t m i .......... .Manager . . , .Managing Editor ......Cashier .Manager Job Dept. TKLiEPUONES : t- si! . -Business Office. SS ; Circulation Department. KSS Job Datrtment, 681 f Society Editor, IOC i A Entered at the Postotflce In Salem. Oregon, as second class matter AT TWENTY-FOUR v "At 20; he was sent to the Oregon penitentiary for seven years from Portland for larceny in a dwelling. - That was in .1919. --j (' y - A 4'Seven months ago he was paroled. A few days ago he stole an automobile in Eugene, drove it to Junction, and there abandoned it. Suspected of the theft, he was con fronted with evidence and confessed. He is now 24. "What is the influence, what the agency, that can sal vage this youth? Is there a way?,. Is there anybody at peni tentiaries to study the natures of inmates and form some reliable conclusion as to what, society may do with them ? ."We ululate about the increase in crime. We have rea son to. " But what Are we doing in an intelligent way to con trolit?yS. f v:)'--.u. 7JV:;..- " --'Ir .'.-V--.." "Far, back Irifjstoryl somebody conceived the idea of locking .'up those who broke the rules of the then crudely organized social order. That somebody also secured adoption of a plan of killing certain individuals whose offenses were more serious. That was some thousands of years ago, when civilization was-rtlde and the-natural laws of human life were little understood. s,'. ! ,-, "We are dealing with criminals in much the same fash ion now. We make the management of prisons largely the a a A aT 'A A"i . 1 . outcome 01 elections, ime amateur aiier anoiner succeeds to the control.- One has a fad for liberal treatment of prison ers and the next is a hard-boil. Some head of a government comes along and at a single stroke paroles or pardons 70 con- .victs or so. - - . ; ' v- - "It would be difficult to plan a system less intelligent. Usually the directing heacU of prisons are temporary, un familiar! with crime and the bent and mental processes of criminals, wholly inexperienced in a business that obviously calls for the highest order of intelligence and . a previous training more exhaustive than the -most expert specialist in medicine or kindred callings. In an our life activities there is probably nothing that we do so bunglingly, so ignorantly and so ineffectively as in our dealings with criminals. : . .j "Take this mere boy at Junction newly paroled and new ly T returned to criminality. He has cost society a lot of money. He is an item in the tax receipts'. He is a part of the problem of increasing crime. The state had him in charge nearly five years. . . ; "Yet he i3 still a dry leaf blown about 4y the winds and who, along with thousands upon thousands of other dry leaves,' is tinder; that keeps- society on fire." Portland . Journal. . - 1 A new parole board has been named and may it have ' little to dol' Portland Oregonian. j "What is the influence, what the agency, that can sal vage this youth ? Is there a way ?' - These are two of the questions asked by the Journal writer. ' , iYes, there, is a way, , and modern prisons are adopting the way ; prisons like the penitentiaries of Minnesota, Mis souri, Alabama, and thp3e of most of the progressive states. Modern prisons are polytechnic schools. They provide employment in industries that pay their expenses; that, in the three named above, create huge revolving surpluses be sides; $4,000,000 in Minnesota, $9,000,000 in Missouri; hun dreds of thousands in Alabama. And they pay every worker a small daily wage; they provide schools to teach the illiterate; they enable the men serving their times to help their people on the outside, sinned against but not sinning; to keep their families together. All this leads to reformations; to 85 per cent in Minne sota as high as the average in juvenile reformatories for boys. (Not for girls, more's" the pity.) Oregon has for her penitentiary a new revolving fund law, passed by the last Legislature. She is entering on the right way. Her system is to be made modern along the lines of modern penologythe treatment to be reformatory and not" vindictive following the letter and spirit of the Constitution of Oregon, wisely worded by the men who laid the foundations of our commonwealth; but not heretofore observed either in letter of spirit, in any long continued and well worked out program. There is a way, Mr. Frank Irvine, editor of the Portland Journal. Oregon is in the way. Give her time; and not a grea deal of time, either, for Superintendent Smith of the Oregon penitentiary is working a3 fast as he can, without making too many mistakes, on the new system. But the rules of modern penology require that there shall be paroles; that the parole board have a good deal to do. But this does not mean that there should be any paroles granted recklessly. They must be earned; and the records will be the best recommendations when the new system gets to functioning fully. But there must be reward in liberty earned as well as in wages paid in the new system. Mr. Irvine is right in his restrictions concerning politics in prison management, i There should be no politics Jat all. Oregon must keep on "keeping with her highway program. . at least' to the extent of finishing the gaps and . matching the govern ment money. Any other course I FUTURE DATES ! ; The criticism of the Portland Journal is in part well taken. . l- " i : u But the quip of the Oregonian is not ; it is in line with the reactionary prison policies of the old times. March 27, Tuesday State convention of Benefit Association of Macabbees. Sent at Chamber. Stat House. March 27. Tuesday -Lions Club Min strels to show at Turner. March 27, Tuesday Company F. smoker; Bares vs. Archer, math event. March 28, Wednesday Presentation of "The Bat" at Grand theater. March 28, Wednesday Frank Ober to lecture on Asia Minor, at Chamber of . Commerce. f ' March 29, Maundy Thursday Scottish Bit Masons' banquet at Hotel Marion. March 31. Saturday State fair Board to .meet. - .-. . ; ' i- April 7, Saturday Shrine Vaudeville 0 Luxe at Armory. April 2 to- 9 Music Week. April 2, Monday Clarence C. Hamilton. : field . secretary t'aited Soeiety of ' Christian Endeavor, to speak in, Salem. April 2. Monday Made-in-Salem week begins. April 3, Tuesday Septic tank and water bond election at Dallas. April 4, Wednesday Willamette Tent Maeeabees district initiation Degree work by Mt. Hood Tent. Portland. April 13, Friday Willamette Men's Glee club concert at armory. April 19, 20 and 21 Cherrlsn Cherriniro. April 28, Saturday. Whitney - Boys chorus at Armory. May 5. Saturday AI Kader temple Shrine ceremonial in Salem. ; May . Sunday Blossom Isy. ' ' Mar l 8, Friday May Festival, Haydn's oratorio, "The Four Seasons." Msy 28. 29. 30 and 81 Oregon Jersey jubilee: would be a great mistake, and any action making this impossible is likewise a mistaken policy, on the part of any one acting upon it. " If the country surrounding Sa lem will keep on keeping as , far ahead of the city as it is now, Sa lem will grow solidly. , And the indications are that tbe surround ing country will. Sarah Bernhardt,, the . world's greatest actress, made a brave fight with a brave spirit, against the infirmities of the flesh, but such a spirit could not stay longer in so frail a body. The Statesman of Thursday will have a symposium on broc coli, among other things. Will if pay for the Willamette valley broccoli growers to stay with the industry? That is the big;ques .tion needing an answer. WIFE OR .WIRELESS? world : when wireless takes the place of our women. Maybe we better take the ax and break up the crystal set before if is too late. It would eeem that In this divorce case SIg. Marconi should have been nameVi as co-respond ent. 1 v THE YELLOW PERIL Foreign gold came Into the country during February to the amount of $8,000,000. This Is the lightest gold importation of any month for more than three years. , Last year tbe gold re ceipts for February were $28,000, 000 andthe year before they were $42,000,000. By this time 'we must have half the gold in the world or else exchange is improv ing slightly. LACK OP TEETH In a speech in New York Hiram Johnson registers -opposition to American participation in .the In ternational Court of Justice. His objection is that it is no court at all. He says that it is no court for it lacks power to haul laggard governments before it or properly enforce ita judgment's. But if It did have teeth and claws jand compulsory jurisdiction would Senator Johnson support it? How many of the Johnson senatorial group would approve America's snaring in a court that had real power of enforcement' behind it? They base their objection to the international court on its want'of supreme and absolute jurisdiction. But would they help give it au thority; or encourage American participation therein? ! They wonld not. Senator Johnson would rather be wrong than be consistent. Los1 Angele3 Times. A MODERN TURKISH BRIDE A' wife testifies In the divorce court that radio love has wrecked her home . and happiness., . The husband has become so passionate in his devotion to wireless ex perimentation that he neglects his wiiii, am nuiou auu. ma uusijucss. Although he has a good Jncome, he is spending .if all for new-fan-' gled radio equipment and practi cally all his time is given to "lis tening In." It will be a sorry BOHOOJi BTUTFT &POB.T HTTMOB WORK Copyright, 102S, Asamclated Edit or The Biggest Little Paper fa the World Edited by Joho H. Millar , ' For Boys and Girls BOY ADVENTURERS. Castor; the Boy General. .Nearly all "boys know the story jf bow General Custer routed the Indians in the West. All boys, however, do not, , know that Cus ter was fighting redskins when he! was 10 years ..of age not, of course, real -Indians, but the .Btorybook kind.4 p j George Armstrong jCuster lived on a farm, and j attended; a coun- try school. .Thp teacher 'of. Cus tors' school 'was known as; "Old Stebblns.' j Wearing f a pair of 4 felt slippers-to deaden his foot a steps, he would- creep cautiously . and noiselessly around v the room - Should he See any pupil with eyes ; and inin$ not " intent' upon his ' old fellow,' and the Jirnant would Twelve' a good caningj - j , Foxy, as "Old-Stebblns" was be met his. match in the mlschlev- ' ous Cunter, for as: be would glide i stealthily about; he would- find George busily engaged in tracing the course of some river, or chain of mountains, with his forefinger In the geography. '01d Stebbins" would give a smile of satisfaction at seeing such a dillgeiit pupil. No sooner was his back turned, than 'with the quickness of an Indian, up would-be lifted the end of the , tfeograpby, and young Custer would be deep in the stirring ncelies of war and adventure in the liiddeu novel beneath. George was never caught at this trick. - This fondness for novel reading did not keep Custer from becoming an ex- cellent wrestler and runner, but he never went swimming. AH his kept away jfrom boats and the water. , t ; -. Custer,, was 16 years of age when he began to teach In a coun try school, i He found the work! boresome'aad was ready to leave when there came an appointment from West Point. At the military school his mischievous spirit was much In eveidence. . At the' outbreak of the Civil War he was under sentence for punishment; ' awaiting trial by court martial.!- While Custer, as! the officer on guard, was making his rounds of inspection, he came across two cadets who had fallen out. From j words they soon came to blows. A Crowd of students gathered, and a few endeavored to stop the fight. ' Custer's duty as an officer was to arrest the two angry cadets. Instead, he pushed away the. crowd, going so far as' to seize those who were trying to put an end to the bout, and called out. ' Stand back: Let s have a fair fight." Fighting, of course, was against the rule, and Custer, Instead of the two cadets, was placed under arrest.' Later, with the cry of war on the country's lips, Custer was re leased. He was given a post In the army, and In a few years be came a general. I THE SHORT STORY, JR. Said ItoUKUts, -This tooth is s For-eating; It's not any use; f It ought ,to be out . Without any doubt." , So Don got some string for a -' noose. 1 'Tve got a. loose tooth." Doug las stuck out an experimenting tongue and carefully wiggled his tooth back and forth. "I sup pose it ought to come out." "Oh. let me pull it out," Don ald cried eagerly. , "I'd like to. Remember, I let you pull my last one' out." i:' ' "ff ! "Yes," Douglas grudgingly ad mitted, "but yours was lots loos er. Besides I' pulled gently and didn't hurt you. . . "Aw, I'll be gentle." Donald assured . him, "honest I 'will." "I don't believe it's quite loose enough to Come out. Seems to me mother wouldn't want me to have it out yet." But Donald was not to be put off that way. He asked his mother, and she assured him ' he might pull his brother's tooth rght away if he wished. Poor Douglas could think of no other excuse. He decided to be brave and do what Don said. . Donald - untangled a piece, of string from the nails, corks, fish ing tackle, and other rubbish in his pocket. One end he tied se curely around tbe loose tooth; the otter ,he tied" to the knob of the swinging door. "Now you stand just as far away; as the string will let you," he command ed, "and when I jerk the door open your tooth will come, out." "Well." Douglas was not overly enthusiastic. He took' his pace as Don instructed . and watched h's brother go out the other do3r. ' "S-s-ay s-somethlng before you s-start, s-so I can be ready," he begged. ". . . ; "NO I won't.! You'd; only get cold feet' his brother scoffed. But Doug did' not waltffor any word, even it Donald had chosen to give one No sooner had the door closed' behind, h'n l brothet than his heart failed him. ' He rushed over to the swinging door and crouched against it out , of danger from the taut string. As Donald ran down the hall to the other door the idea occur red to him to play r a trick on Doug. "I'l push the door 'u." he thought, "instead of pulling 1t out, and then he'll have .all this scare for nothing." With a whoop he - rushed against the door and dashed into the room. "Orr-w-w,"' there was a loud crash followed by . a prolonged howl from Dpug, as he picked himself up from behind tW door. "What do you mean, busting my head like that? I'll get you!" Donald was off in a second, fol- Iqwed by Douglas in tot pursuit. He'caught him in the corner ot the kitchen and pounded him. vigorously in the stomach. "You made me' bite my tongue,-, you did," he .growled. "It's bleed ing." "Aw, get off my stomach. Let me tip. That's, where you pulled your tooth out when you ran after me." The remarkable change in wo man's life and position in Turkey is illustrated in the stories com ing from Angora regarding Mus-1 tapha Kemal Pasha and his 19-year-old bride. The wedding was the culmination of a genuine ro mance between the Nationalist leader and the highly educated girl who, in the enthusiasm of youth, has dedicated her life to the improvement of her nation's womanhood. The ceremony was delayed until the return of Ismet Pasha from the Lausanne confer ence, as that diplomat' had been ordered to bring back the latest in platinum wedding rings to grace the finger of the future Alme. Kemal. Which proves that a Mohammedan damsel and an American flapper are, after all, sisters under the skin." Mme. Kemal promptly shatter ed the moss back prejudices and traditions of her country into neat fragments by. entertaining 1 with an "at home," jointly with her husband. : Here, In addition to Premier Raouf Bey and other Turkish political lights, were Bri tish photographer's and European and American newspapermen. The first lady of the Turks had the ad vantage over her husband In that she spoke English fluently and suffered from no timidity in air ing her views on all subjects per taining to Turkish, politics and educational reforms contemplated for girls. , She is described as pretty. highly intelligent, with a dynamic personality and to be revolving the idea in her mind with great relish of seeing some women en sconced in the National parlia ment. Wherever the Pasha goes. on official journeys or otherwise, she travels also and occupies her rightful share of the spotlight. As her father was once a member of the New lork Cotton exchange, he may have imbued her with this American idea. Many a venerable follower of the prophet must be writhing benekth his graceful tomb in the Moslem cemeteries at this spectacle of the wife of , a Turkish leader defying age-old traditions. The world does move what were unused. Without hav ing recourse to tbe touch he could tell whether a sheet of paper had haan wrlttnn UDOn. ' -t Although the excitement of tbei speculative atmosphere was anew to the blind student he quickly grasped the purpose and details. He spotted fhe tickers and tele rranh Instruments 'within a few inches of their locations. His alert ears and sensitive facial nerves enabled him to create an accurate mental picture of the room and its uses. He even caught the difference In age and stature of the various traders. One of the large operators offered him a good salary if he would be come a floor trader on his staff. He said that the blind man could read the minds or guess the in- tentlons of those , about him and would be worth more than half a dozen of the wise boys with the hawk Byes. The other day a French scien tist was quoted as demonstrating the possibility of one's "seeing" through one's skin. It is certain that the impressions they record are more accurate than those reg istered by fhe eye. This sense or power can be enlarged and im proved. It is a comfort to know that the blind may have some recompense, after all. : ' . I - PICTURE PUZZLE ; , ; L THE BLIND SEE ! farm a urtun. csviADr rr THE.WOROS PICTURED HERE. n-s &x;.:Xj i Answer t last pnssie; "Tbe early bird The blind may become more ac curate observers than those bless ed witn full vision. There is a blind student at the Chicago Uni versity who is training himself for a career as a newspaper reporter and his prospects appear excellent. He is going to be more accurate than tho average of his, class be cause ho has a sense of perception beyond . any mere endowment of the eyes. He has a sharpened sende of hearing and he has devel oped the nerves in his face so that the faint differences of air pressure are . instantly recorded. He goes about unescorted, . up stairs and down and can even pass through a crowded street without being jostled. He goes to ball games and by interpreting the mass mind and keeping hjs ears and nerves attuned he fol lows the sport as accurately as many keen-eyed spectators. On a receai dayhe visited the board of trade during a busy hour. Although he had never been Jn the room before he was able to. tell its size more accurate ly than any of the traders visiting it every day. After listening to the echoes and the confusing crie3 of the spectators for a mo ment he said that the room was 150 by 155 feet In. size. On be ing measured it Was found to be 148 by 158.The blind student also told with uncanny accuracy the number of people in the rooni. No spectator could guess as close ly. The sightless visitor was also able to tell what blackboards bad chalked quotations on them and ! BITS FOR BREAKFAST I National garden week S It will be next week in Oregon. "is For the rest of the country, it will be the week beginning April 16. But we are two weeksearlier here in Oregon. V Easter comes early this year bo as to arrive before the styles change.- It is next Sunday. I ' V W You can say one thing for wood ROBIN HOOD alcohol. Nobody ever' Inherits a taste for it. .' ' V . - - Los Angeles will have a to0, 000 hotel for dogs. A room for the night will likely be about two "bones." V The Natron cut-off will help Eugene, and no oue win wo nn But it will also help Salem and all the rest of Oregon. , - They are having a great broc coli harvest In the Roseburg dis trict. The Statesman of Thurs day will have a symposium on. the industry. " ; - - v. - Part of the annual edition qf The Statesman - is . printed 22 pages of it. The edition will be out Friday or Saturday 38 to 40 pages. .. V Freedom of speeches for those who know the speech of ,free doml .&3!t . " Senator Charles L. McNary is chairman of the select committee of the senate on reforestation. 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