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. T r SUNDAY I IORNLG, AUGUST CO., 1:25 won iff' -. r 'r Xtisad Dally Except Honday by 1 TES tTATSSMAS rffBUSHXBQ C0M7AX1 215 0ou'i Commercial 8tv8i)m, Oregon certaia; leaning toward crime' is Inheritable! science mar do lor mankind is to accurately determine thtronr theory for us to proceed on in our dealings with the criminal element." One of the" 'things Jhai are "Lopili for, v e r. & period "ol nBdrlk Manarar r'J Tooia ...... ICaaagiaf-Editor i n1?"". Citjr Editor Llia fcrnitta . . . . . TaUjrapa Editor Andred banc .... Society Editor I W. H. Hntei - CirmtattM M aaafr - Ralph U. Klataiaf Advartiaiaf Maaacsr Frank Jaskaak Hmnvtrr Job Dpt. K A. Raota - ' " " UvaaMrl Etitt W. ft Oaaix - - - oHr Editor . . , Ksaoxa or the AssooiAnti - . Aaiorlatri Preaa la aeluMTly entitled to U or abafca m ax avpauara ereditml to it ar atherwiM craditea- ttla nwr j 'a Oe loca. sews published karoo. . . i:" i.T . "Vi! ' ... BUSINESS OFFICES - - , Albert Brara, 83s Woreeatar Bid. Portland. Ore. ' : " t " if' CTrA Co- '.w T,,Tk' 128-13 W. 8Ht St; 0ge, rt4 riidr.j Doty Fayaa, fiharoa Bldg. Baa Fraaeiaeo, Calif.; Hijcgina BllfL Un , tiiL BuiaaaaXIff iea23 ar 88S JBaeiaty Editor TELEPHONES : Circatatios Office 683 Ka TKnmeat 1S Job rprtnnt n a f .The above from one of Olhoma's leading newspapers, under the heading, "Crime Not Inborn," is all right, excepting in the statement that the "majority of alienists and prison authorities" hold that "certain leaning toward crime is in heritable." The up to date "alienists and prison authorities" hold nothing of the kind. They know it is not true. The absolute opposite is true. Crime is not inborn. The congenital criminal does not exist . ' ' Not more than the congenital measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, influenza or smallpox patient. . .sss ; Tai-ni t tba Poat Office la Salem, Oregon, at aaeene!ue iatt A NEW PENITENTIARY !' '" ' August 30, 1925- 'uibu A.ND PROVEB-.As for God, his way is. perfect; the word mo uora is inea; ue is a buckler to all them that tr8t ill Samuel 22 : 31, ; ; - , ; - -t-jv bin. THE WORLD'S GROWING SUGAR TOOTH The suggestion to build a new penitentiary falls on deaf i ears. The statement that the Oregon electorate would vote jfor funds for such purpose if given opportunity isn't even a fair guess. Neither taxpayers nor others knowing condi tions of the institution are ready to put dollars into such project. Those who would saddle more debt on the state for a new "pen" remind us that the present structure is out of I . - ; .; - ; date, unsamtary, unsafe, etc a . The leading nations of the world are now fully awake' to I u tere are among the state's fairminded, intelligent, the fact that sugar beet growing is a good thing for agricul- kmdhearted citizens some "from Missouri." ture, and that there are many indirect as well as direct -.ben-1 So far as sanitation, convenience and -accommodations efits from the sugar industry . I areconcerned the present plant is better than a large per Outside of the importance of being or becoming self rentage of the -homes which would be called upon to sacrifice sufficient in sugar, the universal stapte 1 ' , in order to pay for the proposed new structure. The hue and So Great Britain, once the citadel of free. trade,; adopted crv the prison is not fireproof and that the prisoners' ; first the heaviest import duty on sugar imposed by any great ves are n danger in consequence is scarehead sympathy or consuming country and now has granted & large direct social reform propaganda. . bounty to the home grown product; the duty being over four During the initial days of prison reform when a spectac- cents a pound, and the bounty about the same, for the first uar governor removed the prisoners' stripes, ushered in the t year - ; i era of kindergarten prison government and set out Thanks- With the result that the sugar output in England will filing bills of fare with ice cream and vaudeville stunts as be more 'than, three times as large this year as it was last desserts there was an appeal made for a new penitentiary year.. Convicts under sentence for desperate crimes went out jj The Irish Free State has duplicated the action of Great over the state, feted and furnished at public expense,, orating 'Britain.- C i .!; ' - f -' on the noble philanthropic qualities of said governor and Finland and the new Baltic states are seeking by various telling the people that they should put up a half million ; subventions to develop sugar industries of their own, and in dollars for a new prison. But the voters were unmoved, I fact every country of continental Europe that has any sort except with disgust, at the spectacle of criminals in whose of natural fitness for sugar production is striving by one hands neither life nor property were safe, urging palatial means or another to build up the industry within its borders, residences for their own comforts and dignity. The project Even Turkey, which offers few attractions as a sugar was buried at the polls so- deep that for several years no ! producing state, is stimulating the construction of beet sutrar attempt has been made to resurrect it. m factories, and soviet Russia not only has made an exception After the proposition to build a new prison was buried " of sugar in its war on the capitalistic system.' but has called by the voters, there were improvements made in the plant into play the: most advanced mechanism . that capital has and it was announced that it would be good for at least devised, a monopolistic trust, in order to regain its former twenty-five years. Only a small portion of this period of ' position, in the sugar world. 'I time has passed. . , !r : In other parts of the globe the same process is iroinjrnn. There is little or nothing connected with the recent The only' important country of South America that hereto escape which urges the erection of a new building. If the fore produced, no sugar was Chile, and that nation is now four escapes had been watched and kept separate from one taking definite steps to introduce sucar culture. Australia, another their escape together would have been impossible. by means of price fixing and the exclusion of foreign made The finest building in the world would not have furnished , sugar, hot only supplies its own requirements but is now the courage needed when guards had opportunity to shoot to :k exporting quantities of sugar at a loss. stop the escape or to otherwise oppose the attack on the Even in China stirrincrs toward the expansion and im- arsenal. The escape and resulting tragedies can not be laid Iprovement of its primitive surar industry aVe "in evidence, to the style, kind or structure of the building.-, Build the v only temporarily slowed down by the political disturbances, most modern penitentiary imaginable and allow the prisoners In all the world about the only country that remains oblivious to run it as a club room where they entertain and are enter- ; to the. attractions of sugar production is isolated Thibet, tained more persistently than most free men and there will oe I which thus far has resisted all modernization. The nation recurrences of tragedies like that of recent date. " that in this' day and age should abandon the sugar industry The arsenal can be removed to outside the prison walls; i or fail to encourage the production of sugar within its bor- there can be built more guard powers; and there can and ! "ders would write itself down as hopelessly reactionary. . ! should be more guards. And these should be men of iron Will this lead to world over production? Perhaps. But nerve, clear vision and equal to the most exacting service 5 with sugar it is a case where appetite grows by what it feeds they may be called upon to render. The compensation' for upon, and heretofore it has grown so rapidly as to keep pace such service should be adequate, even liberal. ' 1 with the expansion or production, no matter how greatly the The space within the walls should be extended and for f latter has been stimulated. Only a few years ago, the world's this purpose the last legislature made appropriation. The V production was below twenty millions of tons annually. Last flax and shoe industries should be enlarged and other indus- year it was around twenty-five millions of tons tries for manufacturing supplies for other state institutions And the consumption of the United States jumped from should be added, until every able bodied convict is empioyea four and a half million to five million tons, from 1923 to at productive, worthwhile daily work and is earning his own 1921. and is still tfrowinC food, clothing and shelter. Growing out of all proportion to our growth of popula- The least of the present pressing needs of the state is a tioni growing much faster than is the increase of our" domes- NEW prison plant.' tic supply of beet sugar, of which we produced about a mil "Midri tons last year, and will turn out somewhat more this year. So there will have to be a mighty speeding up, if we are Jto make our country self sufficient in sugar, and this con- summation is as important to us as it is to any other people -and we also need the stimulation of our live stock industries, 5 .which can be accomplished on a great scale as certainly and practicably in no other way as can be brought about through ! the expansion of our beet sugar industry- Feeding the by-products ; the tops, pulp and molasses. We have the land, needing such a cultivated rotation ;crrp,as beets. The production of theN whole of our sugar " supply would save an enormous sum annually, and it would -r-confer as great a benefit as this direct saving, in the stimula . tion of our-live stock and other industries, and in various .., indirect helps. . ' '; 'V ; - r . ": ' V , We will not likely become self sufficient in wool without beet by-products in enormous quantities to aid in sheep "T breeding. We now import over half of our wool supply. " . " V - Salem must secure, a beet sugar factory. It is a patriotic , duty which we owe to -the countrjwn the line of rendering it .'self sufficient, and it is a duty we owe to our own people on i i the land, and to ourselves and neighbors in the cities and towns. In due course, Salem should have several bect sugar factories, and the Willamette valley should have a score and more of them, as fast as they can be constructed. two, of three weeks. - s w s 'The prune crop in the north west is reported to hare suffered greatly from heary rains, which may tend to add variety to the bill of fare in boarding houses else- here, says the Boston Tran script. The paragrapher on the Boston paper ought to be ashamed of himself. That prune joke has whiskers on, a yard long. The whilom lowly prune has become an autocrat, erenrwbere. If is a prince among the fruits. Especial ly the. Oregon prune. , Lloyd George says the United States is afraid of Japan.. A friend at the writer's elbow says he is wrong;. that the United States is merely afraid that Japan isn't afraid o'f the United States." . Keep - adding to the dinner bucket brigade, and Salem will not soon be orer built. The next fight should be for a sugar fac tory, and it should be pulled off right soon. m A Russian priest has been sen tenced to five years' imprisonment because he put up a fight when the. soTiet began robbing- his church of valuables. Great is the land of freedom in Russia. mm "The Idea that a man can't learn anything after he is 40 is bunk," declares Congressman Mac Gregor, aged 52. of Buffalo, who is taking a summer course in eco nomics at Cornell. Mr. McaGre gors sentiments and .actions are seriously commended to a lot of other public officials throughout the country. recognize the DaI cr take any part in the government proceedings. The Labor party, which, to some extent, filled the role of an opposi tion group, was dissatisfied with the handling by the government of the unemployment problem and seriously considered withdrawing altogether from the proceedings in parliament as a protest. Thomas Johnson, who was the Labor par ty leader, favored withdrawal, but the party decided to remain and he abandoned the leadership. CHICHESTER S FILLS to the Classified pages, a bargain there awaiting There's you. , ' i Sports. The Statesman leads in the field of the season's athletic activities. Free State Senatorial Opposition Said Slight DUBLIN During the session of the Free State Parliament, which recently aajournea, tne govern ment was not faced by serious op position. This was due to the re iusai or tne Republican party to TMq Tvy IP fin Means Double Wear and our Paymeet .Plami n 11 Makes it easy for every man to be well dressed. We have inaugurated our twelve payment plan to help the men of Salem who are trying, to help themselves. We realize that it costs money to own your home that it is a real effort to keep that little emergency balance in. the bank so wc have arranged to clothe you on-our in come rather than capital. 1 4 i SCOTCH WOOLEN MILLS 5 ;rl STORE 426 State Street W. W. EMMONS, Proprietor T-t f mm THAT IS NOT TXtUK , . .'(Tulsa. Oklahoma, World.) t 'In the opinion of John J. Hadley. prison warden with SS years of careful observation, crime is not born in man. but,U the result o the snapping of moral fibre, lie eays that the congenital criminal does not exist; that most criminals pass through the six degrees of crime: Wine, women, gambling, theft, -murder and the gallows-rand i mat tf a tune of the cnort and money spent in reclamation were spen " iu prevention, much greater results could be obtained. This opinion ):mcd on so broad an experience, should be of incalculable assistance i i the consideration of crime, its prevention and the treatment o trimlnals. Especially in the matter of stressing the importance of prevention where the greatest esconmic and social conservation may l-o effacte'i. .. - "Warden Iladlcy's theory Is the reverse of that-heM.hy4.he..ni3jor lly of aiienicts and prison authorities most of them holding tha Delay in concluding the cases against the three convicts whose escape from prison resulted in murder would disgrace the. state, the courts and the legal profession. OATH OP OFFICE AXD THE BIBLE hnro anA i ttiirtT-afY vARTti aco . Georce Washington vai tnaiirrntAt inn first nresident. The ceremony took piace in iew vv ruv nri inrii 3A its. The oath was administered by Robert R. Livingston, then Chancellor ot the state or isew xora. The Constitution or the United States of America, Article 2, Sec tion 1, prescribes the form of the oath in these words: "I do olcmnly fiwrar that I will faithfully rxerute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend th f Ynuitut inn of the United States. Washington repeated the oath slowly and distinctly, and at the tan nMniiT tind head and kissed the Bible, and as he im' h A(A in his own words. "So he!p me God. There is no law which requires the use of the Bible In an Inaug uration, but this simple act of faith in God, and reverence lor , ms wr on ma nart of. the Father of His Country, established a pre cedent which ha been followed In each of the thlrty-rour Inaugurals u.-(, havo taVpn nlarA since.' . Th. nmh nf nffirn i taken on the onen Bible, and as a rule It U minitrivi hv the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme court Th. rvinstttntinn does not state by whom the oath shall be admlnister- a k n,,roV fcuo pivpfi thn nrlvileee to the chief, iustice. . There . ' . . . ; . &r k a u.'ilnn I Inn nf President nave oeen a lew.cinri'iHiu 1 "c , i MrKiniev Theodor Roosevelt took the oath of office which made him J president at the residence of. Ans'ey Wilcox In Buffalo. N. Y., on Sentembcr 14. 1D1. at ZtZX p. nw and this oath was administered by fnhn ti lfaret of the United States district court. On tho death of President Harding. Calvin Cool idge was sworn In rotdPiit nf the United States by hU father, a notary public, on a s tass . at the hour of 2:30 a. m. Kastern Standard time. cereuiouy took place by the light of a kerosene lamp in the country farm house of the cider Coolldge. near the village ot I'lymouth. In the .i.i. nf Vcrmnnt. and this simole act made Calvin Coolidge the hreident of the United States. The old family Bible was conspicuous in the ceremony. i Bits Tor Breakfast It ws a big circus day a And those who attended it saw the biggest circus In the world, and the best and most successful. The circus Bhowed three days la Oregon two In Portland and They are jumping Redding. Cal., to- one in Salem, from Salem to day, -.. ' A great many people ,know things about the penitentiary that are not so. The rumor factories are working oer time. Yesterday's kind the hop weather was , the and ouion growers 1 GOT EYESIGHT FRIEND ! ' ! : i . I. E. STAPLES. Pres. Now that the long evenings are coming closer you will want your eyes to be comfor table so you may enjoy your reading and study. When there is any eyestrain present, close work is sure to be an effort. WE DO NOT SUPPliY GLASSES UNLESS NEEDED! Even Normal Eyes Should Be "Examined Yearly "Dr. Bates has been with this company for many years, and has successfully fitted over five thous and casesl He understands eyes and is very pleasant to deal with. 9f "7 DIL ANSLEY G. HATES Manager Salem Office S tapirs Optical Company PORTLAND Ground Floor Masonic Temple Bids. Corner State and Hich Streets SALEM Salem, Oregon 11