li.:
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and
Won der If ti.t i o . ..2 t ..
in cither of the major-1 ;u thli
season, who will out r? y, Haz'y
Vance Jt ..will bo ren aer l
that this well night n i, slab
i. xrx Was the leading pi; jr hi the
number of games aw n I st season
and was the only mound?man who
pitched a no-hlt fame during
1925J The Phillies -were hi3 vic
tims and September 13;; was tho
data. "'j Nete that date. 5i" '
year old boys and girls -have.. got
as good a practical and ' moral
education as they had forty yoars
ago at the age .of t enly .yaira
then you must show me tor I am
from iH-yomf ailssovrl. We are
spending '.enormous 1 sums - of
money and enormous amount of
good time In ! sending .our highly
educated ' fourtceit year old bays
and girls to schools nine and ele-
7iahe Bib in Flamcs'as Louisiana. Hotel Burns
rne what father and mother were
sending me to school for.
.. "Vell," says a middle aged
fathj" "onr taxes are already too
hK'h'to'employ some of the high
ly edivated educators who elalm
their forefathers did spring .from
a monkey or.pe". . My forefathers
sprang frora the man that God
created jit lit owe im.Tge; Now
hishly educated educators, ff you
still contend that onr fourteen
to dig up 5tO.224.T5l. 41
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If
rUijijiii.iO. ,
ii i tim rent - or
approximately
tie (500.000 of the aoovo i
eroteVt educational: purpose
alone. No wonder the! famer of
Xfarion county with the ceed 1o
24 0 acres of land and : rays over
i.l&O.OO taxes doesn't know that
ti& is worth a- si-ssle dollar,
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.V; rld's Work Maazinq
Shows Small Percentage. ;
"of Criminals Punished-, : :
AumsviUe, Ore
vn nmnths in the year and call
a.
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"No person contemplating " a
cririe, on looking about him and
- sec-! n $ what." napens to the crimi
nal in this country, would fear the
or. v-iuences of this act," write
Lawrence Veiller, chairman e the
Criminal Courts Committee of to
Charity Organization - Society;, of
Keyr York, who has lust finished a
comparative study of crime; and
Judicial systems ; in thi3 : country
and England for the World'
"Work magazine. . X-- Vp''i
"Even if It were to contemplate
murder, " he knows,1 ; that t. the
chances are three to one that ho
will never be arrested; twelve to
one that if . arested he will neve
be convicted; t and I more ' than a
hundred, to one. that if convicted
he will not be put to death. " '
'The man contemplating : muri
der or deliberate homicide In Eng-f
land knows, while he is deliberate
ins; that if he kills his felloe
maji, within the short period of
six, weeks or a little more he will
surely die for ; his crime; conse?
ouently. If one may Judge by th
small number "committed, he hesi
tates before undertaking so haz
ardons'a deed. .Contrast this with
Y,Thy-ih6uld-I-carer V Nothing
wii-get-me attituda of. the potenj
tial murderer la the United States;
' "Kor Is - this contrast confined
to .murders. It is not 'without
significance- that robbery Is thirty
f isj times 7as prevalent I .in1 Nevf
York City aa It i i London; that
in Chicago -it is a hundred time
as prevalent, 1 There Is f , but on
reason for this. In London robf
bet y is punished and , punished
severely, and punished ; swiftlt
an$ certainly. In New York anq
Chicago it la seldom punished. Let
ns exaclai fhe "exact facurin thl
country. ... , , . ...... . . j
la. Chicago Irul 9 23 lesa thai
one half of tha-defendant I tried,
f orf'EraTder were penalized. Of the
nine men sentenced to hang,' on4
was put .to death--and because, he
only, was without iaanclal means
to avail-hjmtself of th 'resource
, that i would have enabled him to
escape asdic the eight others. uAn4
many murderers escape -arrest!.
The ffciber of "tinsolye"dr murdef
piTiteries.- is steadily growing in
' all out grc-'t cjiies. This situa
tion is net wntined either to Chi
cago pr to Illinois, New York has
a somewhat "similar record.! U -f- j
'One. ' hundred and forty-six
homicides-anions' policy holders
cost the Metropolitan Life Insur
ance Company in claims the! sum
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Nine persons lost their Uvea when tjrappea on the second, floor and about 30 were, hurt In escaping
frm the Johnston Hotel fire at Ferriday, Louisiana. This Interesting. view of the ruins was taken by an
amateur photographer. 1 , - ' - ' -' . '
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of $724,000 in one year. It was
found ' that during, the last .six
menths of 1922; out of these 146
homicides," including -114 4 man
slaughter or murder . cases, only
ona s single Individual paid ..the
penalty; with- Ms life; 35 ,w t
jail, ; 1 ias 'paroled 1 was fined;
anil the rest 108, or 74 per cent.
ieither were tnerer: apprehended,
bald beeu set freev or were awaft
ip trial at the: time thfir report
was md,- j"
' 'To expect punishment to be de
terentnuder these" crrculnslances
is preposterous. TunishmeBt ;can
deter only when it' punishes, And
wten the criminal can continue ih
a life of crfnie and go on hi3 way
wfth perfect " Impunity (and im
munity), whr should any Jone exl
pect the nominal punishments that
ar enumerated in the statute to
acjt aSi.adeterreat? ;
; "In New York i the ;penaliy . for
njtrder. is death. , Notwithstandig
this fact, it appears front the offi
cial records thatin 19?4fc.although, J stynlof crime. does aet- as a de
Iterrent fs shown by an Incident
reflated by j Moorfield , St6?ey, a
Boston lawyer, who salij recently
thit. what is needed is protnpt
judgment and certain punishment.
there were ,126 convictions for
mhjrder in New .York State, only 4i
Persons jpaid the penalty with
thjeir. lives; that is, 97 per cent: of
thpse convicted of murder escaped
the death penalty. , - It Is stated
thjat In New York City a murderer
rtina bnlyT one chance In eight of
being caught
cotavicted.
and
by4 the police
"In- one of our larger cities. dur
ing one year, j felony A complaints
wfre filed against about ; 3,000
parsons, of whom only about 100
ever. served asjmttch a one day In
the penitentiary, f In Cleveland
I two thirds of those . who . com.lt
serious crimes are never arestecu
Of the one third arrested, two
thirds 'are ; never convicted, ; In
that, city only ) one out. of eight
Comes "up- for sentence. Putting It
ill other words,; in " a; three-year
period, of the persons arested for
murder, almost 60. per cent. es-.
caped; punishment of ; any kind.
Nor are these conditions confined
either to the? Middle West or to
the Eastern4 states.' They are to
b4 found equally In Southern
cities. r ; V ;
v "la Baltimore' In . 1923 1the re
cords, show that the felon had two
chances out of three that he would
t " .......
n?t be arrested, and eight chances
oit of. nine that he" would' not be
punished if arested. In that city
the ' guflty feo'n was caught and
ptnished in one .case in twelve in
1S23. j Last jyear nly -26.5 per
cent, of felonie-were rolved ; by
arrest; i 72.5 - per cent of : those
committing felonies went free and
were not even apprehended. Out of
the reported murderers but 41 out
of-55 were caught.,' Of the burg
laries jbut .516. out 'of 2,442, and
of roberies only 182 out of 380. ;
4 f 'An j eminent . "statistician is
authority fOr the statement that
out of 19,7t7. hqnicides occurring
in I twelve states in which there is
capita punishmeni, during a per
iod of seven! years only 349, 'or 18
per centy of the , murderers: were'
put to death.j f . ;. V.. ... i !
'An 'indication of the .6"end in
this country, away from.' punish
ment of criminals is found in the
number of ("persons', put to death
for murderf since 1885
year thWe was 1 execnt:
murders that is the 'odds In favor
ofj the nutderer were 1 6.7 to one.
B 1904 tho odds that the. mur
derer ) would "escape, .the' death
penalty had increased to 73 to-lr
By. 191 5 the odds had lengthened
tbj 77.5 to one, and by. 1918 to 90
tOjone 1 i - ,
'That punishment, in the f rare
case wnen It. rouows the commit
In .that
execution to 16.7
hen a certain judge took his
sejat on thej beach the stealing of
Ieterg froni . the mails by poat-ofr
fiie employees . was comori, ' and
whenever a1 man Was caught and
bjonght before' him, ' the cluprit
made a strotg plea for "mercy on
thfe ground of his family or.his de
pendent mother or-his sick father
oi? some disabled relative, and the
case was .very; apt, to be'puf on
file and disposed of by a nominal
sentence."1 " ". i
.... . "After this practice had gone on
for some time the Judge announced
that thereafter any employee of
the. government found, robing the
Mails ; would "be sent to prison, no
matter what relatives were de-
-pendent upon - him. The postal
employees tried ; it :! two or three
times more, -but, when they found
that the Judge' meant what he said
Old Trrae Fiddlers
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H SALEM ARMORY,
j Friday Eve. 8 O'Clock
Auspices Salem Lion's. Club,
Benefit Charity Fund; $50 ; in
in Cash Prizes, Many Merchan
:dise Prizes. , ' ( s -
iE3g?5 Program- and Old Time
iDancing, r Everyone come and
j bring a friend. ;.,
1! GEXEIM.L ADMISSION 50c
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The Ulinczi; in:Safety
In cur new quarters, v,e have provided a much en
Irrgci Safety Depcsit Dep art pier.t with the mcst mod
ern &nd ljw. vaulvi-'instalbd .to give ycu the utmost ia
safety, . - ;'"",' '.;; - v ". " r .
Your valuable documents-tJonds. Deeds, Mortsaes,
Insurance rolicicsnd otlicr1 important securities are
protected from both fire andtheft for about a cent a
day's l; .'' '
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and that those who stole actually
went to "prison, stealing from the
mails in that district ' stopped and
haa'not been rehewed.. j '
. That punishment! .1 for ? crime,
when it is .achieved, jls efficacious
is, shown againfby tie expekence
of Chicago " Not lo'flg; ago the
stealing of automobiles was one of
the main sources of robbery in that
coramnnity. It1 was Bugested that
a. special antoniobile; court -f be lfi
sUtuted to copjwith this! evil;
This was done 4 The members of
the' gang Were Indicted and within
three months ail the gangsf; were
broken nn, and-their leaders seat
tcf the penitentiary, ' -As a "result
the .stealing . of jj automobiles ; drop
ped: 5.6 per cent."- ., ,
. EDITORIALS OF PEOPLE
(Costinuect from page 7.) j
parent, guardian or other . persons
ini the State of Oregon having, con
trol or charge. !' of i any child or
children between .and including
the- ages of nine and fifteen years
of- age shall be required to send
such child or children to the pub
lie schools, etcf or pay their fine
just as; theyv please. j No : compul
sion on the chlldren,j whatever. :
I remember i, one day when I
was; about thirteen years , old
(Just one year!; younger - than our
boys and, girls hat know so: much
today) I was watching i John
Flynn very ' closely sharpening his
slate pencil for f he was ' making
qite a-noise and be was sitting
on the end of a loag seat by the
marn ; aisle. My ; teacher was sit
ting to my left and tio nty rear the
first thing I knew, the rod of cor
rection, came around my back and
I almost - went over; the seat in
front of me. I looked back at my
teacher and said "I lam not: doing
anything My teacher sald "that
Is what I am whipping yon for.
Now get to ftudyiag; your lesson.;
"Welli- says one middle ; aged
mother "I would ; not have, a brute
of a teacher like, that to teach ray
children' Look, here mother, I
am the one that received the rod
upon my backhand so far as the
hurt is concerned I would not have
known It. the next morning.! but I
want to say right here that.then
and there J. B. Clark ( for, that
was my teacher's tame) ; taught
fa
T77n, You Must Get-Biipu-at 0;:be
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Wort trowe-. mse C3S vore? ay wi.r eamiy orin k.t, ,.Mmnai-!k for
. . ,J ... .t. : iirxM,m-Bm win rrt no reward. Tnia i campaign . ior
! If. yott aio alive, awako to Cha
ttel whercbj' ":?,05O.CO- iw prizetx..re
seiul. in yinv name today. . . ..".''' .-tr ' Thn -,.rU i mh
You caa weare a. Lu-ge, Boiutifut aufomoLilo or hwnZiU of dollars in a very few XAS& wol-fc. , Tbc worK it eas
require no speciiit talent except constant plural'
clnn't hesitate h tin.i.i iwii mn. , Go rfirht Co it and keep right at It. I Give yonr campaign as inUh attrtuion
darinsr vour snare timva yoi would an bnsiness pronositlon. FOR BIGHT HERE 13 NO DOUBT TIU ..lu.All.bi. ,w -
llPTt'VTTV, TIT1T TiTT.T. CCVMXK Trt lfl TV YrtTTrtf. f .1 P"TC--f '
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v.t,.t, i, i. k..a .ntmi,n wiu9 Vniniikivt vprv 4 rhattrc. Not one CaiKlWltC'
lead, that cannot be oworcomo wltli a, few daj x work
opgo.-tnn.ty now trfow.'ymt ome of yonr jmdjgjt to roj
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ins and 'hammering away dtrrlftK the next few days. - L
t ill repay yon many times for your effort U here.' Dont Li- In tLe wmrjg
short: weeks have tit opportunity to cash sparo time for $1 11. "S.
if yontenter now? Vou'have ievery. chanrc. Not one candidate
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i .4iWAaL.wm this day.nold'Ja . store. for..yon?:wm;it mean that you will be the ;prond winner of the J1115 Dodge Sedan
or-one of tho otiiCr cars?,' Will it mean that you have by taking- advantage of thl two-fold opportunity secured your win- '
nlaeffes to eapture the;Big.Prise? : Remember. thff "closing 'date of - this special offer. Saturday nicrht. February 27, at 8 t
crclock. . Just stop and consider what your efforts can 'mean to yon. ' The present BIO VOTE period -tar your O.NG CHANCE
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' If you really KNEW you could own one of thes .handsome big prizes which The .States
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sleeves and hustle day, and nght, wouldn't you? if But when you have an eqtfal chance ;.with
others t own one of them; you hesttate to get buisy. Why Is ft? "Self-Iteiianee is all you
i need, It is what is i keeping you from being, amotor car owner right thfs minnte. If'yon
I had just an ounce of It, some terrfble misfortune could only keep you out of the race Do
if- Hard, work now .will
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