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PAGE FOUR Th Q2EG0N STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Homing. May 17, 1923 MM ' "Aro Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe.' From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Shiacue, Sheldon F. Sackett, Pxiaier CHABLES A. S PRAGUE . . Sheldon F. Sackett Editor-Manager Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. Entered at the Potto ff ice at Slem, Oregon a Second-Close Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Businete office tlS S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stechcr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Matrimony in Russia AMONG other experiments Russia is 'carrying forward an experiment in laws governing matrimony. Extreme liberality has marked this legislation. A divorce was as easy as signing a receipt. For a time the children of broken homes were so numerous "as to be a real problem. But in this "new day" stuff we read about Russia's marriage laws rank ahead of the most advanced. In some respects they out-Lindsey Lindsey; in other respcts they are an untrammeiea attempt to solve some of the perplexing problems of modern matn m. mony. A Danish visitor to Russia, one Ankor Kirkeby, writes his "Random Impressions" of the soviet for the Living Age, and his article contains the following very interesting sum mary of conditions surrounding the Russian marriage laws. "The new Russian marriage laws are characteristic of the new trends of thought. The reasoning on which they are based runs something as follows: Law must set up rules showing how life may be lived happily and ethically, but It must not be so far removed from actuality that life becomes one thing and law. an entirely dif ferent thing. The love relations of men and women is one of the spheres where a harmony between.law and life has not jet been dis covered, hence the need for constant experiment In the endeavor to find laws that will in the best possible way help mankind in Its search for happiness. "The Russian marriage laws are therefore subject to constant revision. Just as they are in other countries, Denmark, for example; but in Russia the revisions are undeniably more frequent. "Marriage may be contracted In two ways: by registration and by free consent. Both have binding legal validity. Registration calls for the following procedure: the parties concerned appear before a magistrate (no previous notice is necessary) and make a declaration of their desire to be-married. The only question asked by the au thorities is, 'Do you know if your prospective husband (or wife) is sound In health?' The answer being satisfactory, the marriage Is rpiHutProd and inso facto an accomDllshed fact. 'Free' marriages are entered Into without official registration; the parties simply declare' themselves married. But both the man and the woman have tne same legal responsibilities as in the case of a registered marriage. Proof of their union can always be secured: it can be shown that they have lived together as man and wife, or a third party can be found to whom they have represented themselves as being married. "Formerly It was quite general for young people to marry legally at a very low age of consent; In the country this was per mitted to girls when fifteen years old. The bearing of children and long hours of work in the fields left these undeveloped young peas unt girls utter physical wrecks after a few years of marriage. Now, no woman may marry until she has completed her eighteenth year. "A marriage may be dissolved whenever one of the parties wishes It; no cause or reason need be given. But the man is obliged to pro vide for the support of the woman for six months following the separation; if she Is in poor health or otherwise unable to support herself, he must continue to provide for her for a full year. Every woman over forty-five years of age is included in this latter eategoty. When the woman Is the one who earns the most, or if the man is in and unfit for work, it is she who must pay for his support during the prescribed period following a divorce. "No difference is recognized between the children of registered marriages and those of a free marriage. There are no 'illegitimate' children in Russia all are equally legitimate. No shame or pen alty attaches to any woman who gives birth to a child in Soviet Rus sia. As a result child murder and the abandonment of new-born Infants have been enormously reduced. Under the Tsar, the num ber of children abandoned by unfortunate mothers numbered twen ty thousand annually in Moscow alone; last year the number was only six hundred. "Both the man and the woman are obliged to pay for the main tenance of their children. The law makes the safety and welfare of the children Its chief concern. If the parents are unable to provide the means for the support of the children, the uncles and aunts, even the grandparents, are legally obligated to make the necessary financial contribution. However easily the changing moods of love may be gratified by adults, its oscillations must never affect the rights and welfare of the innocent children. "Two years ago the government appointed a committee of phy sicians and scientists to Investigate the most hygienic and effective ' methods of Birth control. When the committee finished its work and submitted its findings as to the methods approved by the high est scientific authorities, the government published and distributed the report throughout Russia. Free contraceptives may now be ob tained at all drug stores and sanitary depots. For the first three months abortions incur no penalty. As I write this I read in the newspaper that in Italy Malthus' book on the theory of population v is being removed from the booksellers' windows by the police, in spite ot the fact that it is one hundred and thirty years old. "It is not my province to pass judgment on Russian marriage experiments. But the easy entrance upon the married state in which two people become one, and the still easier escape from it, which only one party may wish for, has brought it abont that those who love each other find'it easy to unite, and those who find themselves unsuited to one another can readily break their claims. The new Russian laws promote and favor happy marriages and. the result is an unexpected raising of the country's moral standard. Frank and happy love is the worst enemy of surreptitious, unlawful love." No More Selected Bouquets m wiitwtmn t. Brtot. n.S HU- . F i ill i n Here and There: Terse comments on Events, Local and Abroad, of the Past Week. TODAY the birthday of the man who added many years ot life to the spaa of millions of people. That man is Edward Jenner, English physician and dis coverer of vaccination. Jenner it was who worked for Iff years to perfect a vaccine to stamp out smallpox only to have his efforts violently opposed until after a year had passed, seventy leading Burgeons In London approved Jen ner discovery. Who appreciates today the seoarg which smallpox was in Jenner's day? Very few people. On hundred and fifty years ago tea of every hundred deaths were caused by smallpox. More than half the people living were scar red by the pits which the disease left behind. Jenner and his followers have virtually stamped oat this plague. Count the people yon know who have had smallpox. You caa name them on the fingers of one hand. Moreover, vaccination is more safe thaa ever before. Thanks to Jen ner and his kind, the world Is better place to live in. Who says it is a world constantly growing worse? Rather it is a safer, hap. nler, better place to dwell in. fALEM'S yards and gardens never looked nicer than this spring despite the late season. Ride down any of the streets of the city and home after home will greet you and make you smile. Flowers, lawns, trees, pleasant residences, these are the nlcities which make Salem the delight of its townspeople and the marvel of the visitor. WE have become a nation oi .stockholders. After the war ' O AAA AAA nannU In thA United States owned Btock in some business enterprise. Today thtt number has gone to 17.000,000, almost a stockholder for every person in five, man, woman or child. Stock sales for 1928 were five times as great as in 1921 on the New York stock market. The United States steel corporation has replaced its bonds with com mnn ninfV it la a. mad Dace and some day the bull will die. Invest ors cannot forever see prices aa vane en common stocks netting only three per cent. But people are nearly all alike. As long as tha trend is upward, what matters the return? Some day the reac, tion must set in and there will be wailings from many of the 17, 000,000. Good bonds will regain their lost popularity; nowadays they are humble wallflowers and only staid old men look at them. Where Is the highest homicide rate in the United States? You'll answer instantly. "In Chicago." But hold on. Memphis, Tenn. has the highest ratio with 60.5 deaths per 100,000 population. Birming ham, Alabama, comes next and then Jacksonville. Fla. The ten largest cities of the south all hare far hgiher death rates due to mur. der than have the six largest ci ties of the United States. Detroit, the auto city, has more deaths by murder In ratio than Chicago, according to 1928 fig ures. Detroit had S28 homicidal deaths to Chicago's 448 but the ratio was 16.5 for Detroit per 100,000 to 15.8 for Chicago. Los Angeles, the sixth largest city of the nation, had only 70 homi cides or 4.7 per 100.000 nonac tion. There Is power In publicity. Chicago is bad enough, for sure, but she has a black eye which is rivalled by Cleveland. Ohio and excelled by Detroit. In the south, tha ratio Is far larger, due prob ably to the black population. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS. Stimson Calls a Halt- , WHAT the secretary of the treasury failed to do Secretary Stimson of the department of state has done in telling the federal reserve bank to "stay home" and not affiliate with the proposed international bank which is being planned by the reparations experts in Paris. The federal reserve heads have drawn considerable crit icism in banking circles for their efforts to underwrite inter national finance. The present credit stringency is in part attributed to the mistaken policy of the federal reserve in holding interest rates low through 1927 in order to facilitate the financing of European countries. The federal ' reserve even went so far as to set up reserves for the Bank of Po land at a time when its future was quite uncertain. The world is one big ball and the nations on.it are locked together in trade and commerce. There must be interna tional co-operation in finance as in politics and commerce; but the federal reserve system was not created to nurse the ailing fiscal systems of other powers. - Secretary Stimson does well in calling a sharp halt and holding the federal bank to its domestic duties. Astoria is surely badly bitten with an anti-Portland bug. The red rash shows most every issue ot the Astoria papers. If it isn't the Roosevelt highway, or the Columbia river bridge. It's something else. Just now It is the assessed valuation on the Astoria hotel which the Portland bondholders want lowered. The Eugene Register scolds Salem- and Albany for scrapping over the Santiam highway; says the towns should get together and get the road built Good advice; but we re afraid it we left It to Eugene for arbitration the route chosen would be up the middle fork ot the WUlamette. . When we read about the row at Des Moines university we won der what it is In the gospel of brotherly love that makes Christians such bitter fighters of each other. Verily there -is little hope so long as "truth" is thought to be private property, something that can be marked off and staked down. . "Bennett asserts governor lo afngt on namngl bureau, says front page headline in Oregon Journal. Governor Patterson can now call the senate into extra session to have Senator Bennett impeached en charges of malicious slander. :i ' Continuing the peace parley S S V At Table Rock, a record of which was started In this column yesterday. The eleven white men, including General Lane, after rid ing in the early morning of Sept. 10, 1853, from their camp across tha lav at vnllAV famA in th fnnt of the mountain where it was too steep for their horses to ascend. Hitching their horses, they scram bled up on foot for half a mile and then found themselves in the Indian stronghold, just under the perpendicular cliff 'of Table Rock, surrounded by 700 hostile savages arrayed in all their gorgeous war paint and feathers. . S The parley opened at once. Long speeches were made by Gen eral Lane and Superintendent Pal mer; they had to be translated twice. When an Indian spoke the Rogue River, tongue, it was trans lated by an Indian interpreter in Chinook or jargon to Col. Nes mith, when he translated it into English. When Lane or Palmer spoke, the process was reversed, b " S In the mean time an episode oc curred which came near terminat ing the parley and ending in a massacre of the white men. About the middle of the afternoon a young Indian came running into camp stark naked, with perspira tion streaming from every pore. He made a brief harangue and threw himself on the ground ap parently exhausted. His speech had made a great tumult among his tribe. General Lane learned through the Interpreters that a company of white men down on Applegate creek had that morn ing capturd an Indian known as Jim "Taylor and tied him up to a tree and shot him to death. The hubbub among the Indians be came intense. The Indian inter preter told Col. Nesmith that the Indians were threening to tie the white men of the parley up to trees and shoot them. The killing of the Indian Jim Taylor was by men under command of Capt. Owen. The hostiles were making movements as if to carry out the vengeance that was in their faces Col. Nesmith used English words not likely to be understood by the Indian interpreter, wXstructing the white men to keep close to the savages, ana separate irom one another. He believed his time had come, and thought of wife and children, bat there was only cool ness among the white men. Gen eral Lane sat on a log with his arm In a sling, the lines about his mouth rigidly compressing his lips, while his eyes flashed fire. He asked brief questions and gave sententious answers to what little the Indians said. Col. .Nesmith sat on a log close to old chief Joe, and, having a sharp hunting knife under his hunting shirt, he kept one hand near its handle, de termined that one Indian would be made "good" about the time the expected onslaught began. In a few moments, General Lane stood up and began to speak slowly but very distinctly. He said, among many other things: "Owens, who has violated the ar mistice and killed Jim Taylor, Is a bad man. He is not one of my soldiers. When I catch him he shall be punished. I promised in good faith to come into your camp with 10 other unarmed men to secure peace. Myself and men are placed In your power; I do not believe that you are such cow ardly dogs as to take advantage of our unarmed condition. I know that you have the power to mur der ns, and can do so as quickly as yon please, but what good will our blood do you? Our murder will exasperate our friends, and your tribe will be hunted from the face of the earth. Let ns proceed with the treaty, and in place of war have a lasting peace." W Much more was said in this strain by the general, all rather defiant, and nothing of a begging character. The excitement gradu ally subsided after General Lane promised to give a fair compensa tion for the defunct Jim Taylor in shirts and blankets. S m So the treaty was completed and signed. The members of the party scrambled down through the rocks to where their horses were tied, and mounted. Said Col. Nes mith long afterward: "As General Lane and party rode back across the valley, we looked up and saw the summit of Table Rock". I the rays ot the setting sun gilding drew a long breath and remarked to the old general that the next time he wanted to go unarmed in. up some one besides myself to act to a hostile camp, he must hunt as "an Interpreter. With a benign smile he responded, 'God bless you, luck Is better than science.' But Nesmith said, many times in after years, that he never heard the fate ot General Canby at the Modoc camp referred to, that he did not think of the nar row escape at Table Rock of the peace party. S S There is something more to tell, in a later issue, of the recollec tions of that scene by United States Judge Matthew P. Deady, who was a chance witness of the historic events of that September day. They Say... e Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Header are Welcomed for Use in this colason. All Letters Most Bear Writer's Vane, Though Thin Need Nit be Printed. m Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read May 17, 1904 The Louisiana purchase com memoration stamp series have been received by Postmaster Ed ward Hlrsch and are on sale here. Santa Cruz, Calif. Congress man W. R. Hearst lost tha prelim inary skirmish when the Califor nia state Democratic convention failed to support his candidacy. California is Hearst's home state. Salem lost the last game ot a series of baseball games with the Vancouver Infants, score 7 to 2. The locals still lead the state league, however. Geprge L. Hawkins of Dallas was a Salem visitor. He was a member of the last legislature and is a prominent political leader in his county. Mrs. Matt Savage and daughter, Miss ienna of Clearfield, Pa., are visiting in Salem, guests at the home ot Mrs. Savage's sister, Mrs. w. a. Mott. Ifl Q1R0RS PAVE WAY FOR WOODBURN WIN independence Bobbles Ball to Let Home Nine Take 15 to 6 Victory WOODBURN. May Iff. Taking advantage or Independence ten er rors, the local high school team handed the Polk county nine its second defeat, 15 to ff, here Fri day afternoon. After letting the losers take a 6 to 1 lead early in the game, the locals steadied be hind the pitching of Hastle, who relieved Owings in the third, and gathered in their 15 runs on 10 hits off Stapleton, Independence twirler. Woodburn 15 10 Independence 6 5 10 Owings, Hastle and Gribbte; Stapleton and Harp. Umpire, Hauser. Salem, Ore., May 15, 1929 Editor, The Statesman: My interest was aroused by the diatribe of "One Who Wasn't Caught," in your columns this morning, re the attempts of our Salem Police Department to en force reasonable parking rules. This No Caught party wonders if the penalty imposed on over time parking is for the purpose of enforcing the law; and caustically suggests that Salem needs the m'oney, and that it would be bet ter to send by mail for merchan dise, to Portland, supposedly, and leave the No Caught car in the Turner home garage. Well, if this slick no-caught car owner would nse his or her head for something else besides a hat rack they would at once see the answer and aim, of and to some of the foolish questions and suggestions. For instance: They ought to rush at once to Portland by mail for all their pur chases bearing in mind that this last fall and winter has seen the most stringent enforcement of traffic rules in that city ever be fore known, and which netted the city treasury many thousands of dollars. So, by the intricate men tal processes of this no-caught car party, rortland must sadly need the money, just because she at tempts to make the auto hog hare some regard for the rights and privileges of others. Some one has said that if you toss a brick into a group of dogs. the only dog found h'owling will be the one hit by the tossed brick. Since the very inception of traf fic rules and regulations, and their enforcement, or attempted enforcement, we have heard the jeremiads of those who know no limits as to where their rights leave off and the rights of the oth er fellows begin. Folks who use their brains for proper purposes will at once see that Salem is trying to do but one thing and that is to make it pos sible for visitors to our city to find a parking space for a reasonable length ot time. It heartens me considerably to learn that, city po lice are taking proper measures to check on the practice of auto hogs, who roll into a parking space and deliberately set themselves to watch officers ot the law so they may stay to the last limit, and either move their car just a bit or else drive it around the block and back into the same space again, meanwhile keeping folks with real business down town oni. of a place to park while they at tend ro some legitimate business, wanaesune marxs on rear tires are Just exactly the medicine for in or out-of-town "slickers" who are apparently not interested in seeing laws obeyed just in terested in being slick enough to violate me law and be able to ca talog themselves as "ONE WHO WASN'T CAUGHT." ONE WHO LEAVES HIS CAR AT HOME. Free circus tickets for boy or girl under Iff just secure one new three month subscription to The vregon statesman. To Stop a Conzh Onicklr Start at once taking Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. 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