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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1922)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1922. CAPITAL JOURNAL; SALEM, OREGON Capitafyournal an Salem. Oracroa Inapnent Neinrp.iwi'. Pnb11hed rerr Tentag txeept 8n Skuas Telephone SI; nrwi S3 GEORGK PUTNAM, Editor and Publish i-AUiu xvvK . - - : x tt ox- ill i ' I " 1)111 . r -m L - I a 1 I f- I 1 f 1 II II I It VV 1,1 M" IS S.I ii Ilez Heck Says: "Wimmin that read-poetry and cry ain't much at patchin' pants." A Wanderer Returned 6heila beM Walter Jones' letter in her hand for a moment. Evident- "No Highway Station" That the Ku Klux Klan, or an organization of similar purpose and character, existed in Oregon 36 years ago is Bhown by the records of the eupreme court decisions con tained in 15 Oregon Reports, case of the State of Oregon vs. Roberts. The story of the case as revealed in the records, shows that a secret society called the "I. W. A.s" took upon itself the task regulating the methods and morals of the com munity and went so far as to instruct employers what class of citizens they should employ, and generally conducted themselves along the line that "100 percent Americans" do today. Portland business men were warned whom to dis charge and whom to employ, much as they are under the benificent rule of the Klansraen and allied patriots, showing that there is nothing new under the sun and that history repeats itself, spasmodically and sporadically. Tn this articular instance, in which the law stepped in to regulate the community regulators, the "I. W. A-'s" had eerved notice upon W. S- Ladd of Portland, that he must with the services of a Chinaman, or suffer various and dire penalties. Mr. Ladd fell back upon his constitutional T-;rr.t tn emnlov whom he pleased, whereupon the members of the I. W. A.'a went from the lodge room to a powder arsAnal. hroke it oDen. took a certain quantity of powder ana used it July SO, 1886, in setting fire to ana destroying we haystack and barn owned by Mr. Ladd, thus putting in practice the gentle methods of moral suasion now so popular with the klan. However, the officials of that day and generation seem to have had more gumption than the officials have today, or it is possible the I. W. A.'s did not have the precaution of the Ku Kluxers and failed to enlist law enforcement officials in the society to break the law, for the ring-leaders of the mob were arrested for arson, convicted and sent to prison, thus delavinz for 36 years, the effort to put none but 100 nercenters on guard. Anyway, it was not necessary for the governor to designate the attorney general to prosecute be cause of the failure of regular officials to act. Nor is there anything to show that the newspapers of that day were coerced and scared into a shameful conspiracy or silence Dy the I. W. A,'s as they are today by the K. K. K. The opinion of the supreme court in this case, written by Justice Strahan. one of the ablest of Oregon jurists, is inter esting for it is unquestionably the viewpoint of the court3 of today towards such organizations as the I. W. A.'s and the K K. K.. the F. O. P. S. and other secret societies that aim at installing invisible government for the regulation of com munities and the usurpation of political and industrial power. It concludes as follows: "We have examined this case with care for the reason that the parties implicated seem to have gone directly from a lodge-room to the scene of the crime, and after discovery, they appear to have relied upon an order called the "I. W. A.'s" for help. And the evidence given upon the trial tended to show that parties concerned in its commission, with others, sought to bind themaelves together by extrajudicial paths, and by ties that they sought to make stronger than the law; but the result has demonstrated the futility of the attempt, and that the purposes of the law are not to be thwared by such means. i "The real purposes of the organization so far as they were disclosed upon the trial, are revolutionary and highly criminal. They assumed to act as self-appointed regulators, and to determine the property of the conduct of citizens of this state in the management of their private business, and to direct whom they shall and whom they shall not employ; for the right to determine who shall not be employed, implies the right to say who shall be. It reviews in secret the acts and conduct of the citizens, and its members emerge from the lodgeroom and hasten away to execute private and sum mary vengeance upon those who have fallen under the ban of its displeasure. "They attempt to prescribe a rule of civil conduct for the government of all the people of this state, unbeknown to our statutes, and at war with the idea of a government regulated by law, and to inflict punishment for a violation or a dis regard of its behests. In this instance it was arson. The next may be murder. The spirit that incites the commission of that crime will not stop there, demonstrated this. There is no half-way station between the benign control of the law and the wildest anarchy. "If the commission of one crime does not bring the citizen to the feet of the lawless cabal, another must follow, and so morning and toll him tue whole n in gradual succession until the foundations of social order jatory in order to help Waiter got are broken up and the spirit of anarchy be enthroned injbark what belongs to him." its Stead. j "My dear Sheila, that would be Iconfinnintj Phil in what Susanne has "The object and direct tendency of such an organization !lr,;Jy V.'.nr"'?.t ou " s,i" ..,.,., l.a tn nmmritlv l.,.v,,J Tl,.. ., , . ..,;,k!' wilh Walter. vnami'i v. itiiy.ij i viu 1 II n. 1 IJCJ aiC HI V ill mill the law, our social and political life, and the genius of our institutions. Such an organization is not of American birth, and cannot take root or flourish in an American commonwealth." Predictions that you don't bet on are the ones that come true. No matter who is elected, you can fig ure on increased taxation. Ask yourself tonight if you are ashamed of anything you did today. A great deal of intelligence goes to waste be cause no use is made of it. Hornets hold the record for supplying the most experience in the least time. The reason the next world is so highly recom mended is because we do not understand this one. Copyrtrnt Premier Syndicate, Inc. HAT HAPPENED When Sheila Elliston Refused Love By ID AH McGLONK GIBSON times, of course, to enlist in. the army, but mj health waa auea that it waa impossible, and when Sue ly her thought went back to thatwrote me that she waa going across tragie year 01 her me wacn ane : faced disgrace and life's deoaclc. "Poor Walter," he aaid. "I be-j lieve he ha been aa much sinned! aeatnst aa I. And, Kay, I cannot! find it in my mind to forgive that sister of hie the part she played in it all." "Then you have proof. Sheila, that Susanne has known tne truih about yon all the timet" "Yes, this letter provea it. "I don't care what Susanne Jones did during the war-I do not care how brave aho was (1'liil is always in my place and that Dad waa fi nishing four Red Cross ambulances, of which she was going to drive one, I hated you worse than ever for I attributed to you mr inabil jity to make the grade. I (aid it is a woman that has made me leas than a man. " 'It seemed to me that beside your taking away my faith in aC women, you had hurt me physicially and mentally. " 'Oh, Sheila, I am asking your forgiveness for this, although I do not understand it all yet. Is my ira telling me of her intrepid courage i Mor -crazed, done-filled mind over there and how no woman who , possible of comprehending what has did tne tnings inai sue am coiuu happened to you as well as to met otherwise man tig nail spienrna; she is weak and moan and little in lier dealings with her brother. Just why she seems to hate him, I cannot understand, for she commenced it long before she knew Phil and cer tainlv before she realized that I was her rival in Phil's affection. "I expect, (Sheila, that her father told her some story of how you had inveigled Walter into caring for you and ISusanno has always been very ambitious. I think probably that her first interest in Phil when she first met him abroad was occasioned by the knowledge that he was the Phil ip Spencer she had probably heard so much about but had never met. Of course, I know that this sounds rather coneeited, but the Spencers have always had money and family stnee this city was settled, while the Jones' have only had money for one generation and never family." "Poor Walter," aighed Sheila again. "He is an illustration of how lit tie real happiness money will buy. "But, Sheila, if Walter was the man I saw last night, he doesn't look as though ho had any money now, and of courso you know that by the terms of tho will, he is per fectly dependeut upon his mother All human experience hasjh I know it, but a third of the monev should bo his and I havo al most a good mind to go to Phil this Along, State Street Golf stockings cover a multitude of shins. A miner who digs shallow makes the public dig deep. It is hard to tell whether some men strike for the necessi ties or the luxuries of life. A lot of work and a little talent are better than a little work and a lot of talent. The woman who is proud of her ailments has seldom any thing' else to be proud f. The new long skirts make some of the ladies look like fcrown-up children "playing house." liny fever sufferers often wonder if elephants ever be come afflicted with the same kind of trouble. Striking railrtwtd shopmen, incidentally, when returning to work will ako have a chance to repair their own finances. The short measure from gasoline curb stations costs the tnotorists of the country $ft0,000.OOO every year, and it has i .1 been blamed on the faulty carburetors. A discovery has been made in Germany of a method to rlor living trees. This idea mitrht well be used to color l .r r marks to ma5;a them look like money. "Oh, dear; I wwh something would happen to that terrible wo man. Me mikes me as.hamed everv time I think of her. I hate to be long to the same sex. "Listen to Waller's letter, Kay ' 'Sheila, Sheila, what does it all meant I cannot understand it at all. I have believed in you, I have trusted you, all these years, and 1 caaie back to find vou married to another man. '. 'When I first went away, Su wrote me that you were a wicked woman and that you had not eared for me at all and only used me to get that apartment furnished. For a long time I thought that Dad was rijht in his persecution of you. and 1 listed you, Sheila hated you when 1 began to cough my life away: hated you when I d reamed those dreams which narcotics brought to me, for my illness I blamed entire ly npon you. " 'Sue kept writing to me how ter rible you were; how you cared for nothing but money. She told me that so? had been to see you to ask you if it were true that you reallv did sot care for me, and you laugh ed at her and said you would rather rot ia prison than live with me in that beautiful little place that you ecsied to have prepared with s much pleasure for yourself and someone eUe. "'Sheila, dear, I bolieved her ane? I threw my life awiv-. I di.ln' want ta live. 1 tried twj or thrv 'Yes, dear, I have gone so low that I am ready to confess that I cannot live without the little white powder that gives me a few mo meats' surcea.se from wracking pain and depressing thought. " 'After Susanne wrote me that she had gone acros, for a long time I received letters from no one. The whole world seemed to have forgot ten me. " 'I sank lower and lower among the human riff-raff in Calcutta. Then one day a man looked me up, said he was from Sue, and that she was mistaken about it all, that you still loved me, that you wanted to hear from me, and that I was to write you in care of her. You can imagine my joy! Heaven had open ed to me again.' " Tomorrow A Fiendish Plan. Building is on the increase in The Dalles, L and many new homes are going up while extensive altera tions and improvements aro being made on many of the old ones. Cnt thu Out It ia Worth Money Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Co.. 2S35 Sheffield Ave.. Chicago. 111., writing your name and address clearly. 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LAVISH ROOF GARDEN IN "HEAD OVER HEELS" It is doubtful if a more elaborate roof garden et was ever filmed in pictures than the one made for Mabel Xormand in "Head Over Heels. which eomes to the Liberty for two days, commencing tomor row. Great pillars covered with gold leaf, velvet carpets, and grace ful gilded chair and tables make, the place appear like a scene from fairyland. 'The entrance 19 a high Moorish arch, from which Bwavs & scintillating curtain of gold mesh and vari-colored jewels. It is through this exquisite door way that Miss Xormand cornea, full tih, and bent on trouble. She trans- froms the scene from one of dreamy music and soft-toned conversation to a hysterical flutter of drapvries and feminine shrieks, as she falls upon the girl she considers her rival in Are Usually Due to n II Constipation B U4 UP MOTION PICTURE Bad weather h?ld np the final shots of the great special the Prodigal Judge." which will be hown at the Grand on Saturday. For an entire week the large eait reported each morning to maie lo cation tnp up the Uailson nver, oalr to be dismissed bari3a the skr was so biacklr overcast. The eighth day was ciear, m the trp was made and some beautiful 3cenes were taken. "The Prodigal Judge" is one o the best pictures ever proiaced. The atnvjsrhere of the period of l?o and the Judge are two cf the Sigh- lights that stand out in bold relief Every character, however, is hand led in masterly style by an aU stai cast. POWELL IN BIG PICTURES After having made a number of notable Paramount pictures in Eu rope, David Powell ia back in the United States playing leading man to popular Paramount stars. His first picture was Gloria Swanion'i 'Her Gilded Cae," and his second is Dorothy Dalton's "The Siren Call," which comes to the Oregon today. Mr. Powell will soon be seen with Aliee Brady in "Missing Mil lions." life '?S feue.'i v li Candidates Declared "Wet." Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 5. 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