Capital journal., October 28, 1922, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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Capital
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Salem, Oregon . : . -An
Independent Newspaper, Published every enlng except Sunday
Telephone 81; new 82
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
Masonry and the School Bill
A fortnight ago the Capital Journal quoted a flat dec
laration by George G. Brown, Masonic grand master in
nn.n n the Pffert that the so-called Compulsory School
Bill which appears .among the initiative measures on the
ballot at the general election November 7, is not and neYer
has been indorsed by the Oregon Grand i.oage oi w
all claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
Tndav the Canital Journal prints the statement of W. C
Bristol, former grand master of the Masonic fraternity in
Oregon, in which he denounces those Masons wno are auvi
.fltino- onar.tment of the school bill, declaring that the pro
posed measure is fundamentally un-Masonic and in conflict
with thA Hop.trines and nreceots of Masonry. To substan
tiate his position, Mr. Bristol quotes at length from the
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"bible" of Scottish Rite Masonry, "Morals ana uogma ui
Free Masonry," quotations from which are reprinted at
length elsewhere in this issue.
"True masonry," says Mr. Bristol, "does not counten
ance such intolerance, bigotry, and infringement upon per
sonal religious rights as are contained in the school bill.'
Fnrthpr. he declares, that the action of Messrs Malcolm
CifTord and others, in championing the Compulsory School
Bill, is injuring the Masonic fraternity by placing it in a
false light before the people. ;
Twn rpsolutions dealinar with compulsory education have
in the past, been presented to and approved by the grand
lodge of Oregon Masons, one in the session ot iy-iu ana one
nr. the 1921 meetintr. but neither or these dealt with com
nulsorv attendance in public schools. Both dealt with the
courses of study to be prescribed in all schools, public or
private.. The first indorsed the Smith-Towner bill, placing
n rpnrpsentative of education in the president s cabinet ana
the other dealt with the teaching of the German language
in the schools of Oregon.
The school bill has for its object the. closing of the
Catholic parochial schools, but in order to accomplish this
it closes the Lutheran, Adventist, Episcopalian and all
other church and private schools, and forces the attendance
of every child 16 or under, at the public school. It deprives
the parent of the right of supervising the education of the
child, and makes the child the ward of the state, as in Soviet
Russia. How does it square with Masonic principles?
This Compulsory school bill is the fruit of intolerance,
whereas "Morals and Dogma" declares that "Masonry alone
preaches toleration, the right of man to abide by his own
faith." To forcibly close meritorious and deserving insti
tutions like the church and private schools is an act of in
justice and in conflict with the assertion "that Masonry
endeavors to restrain men from the commission of injustice
and acts of wrong aud outrage." And we are further inform
ed that "the well informed Mason wlil not fail to be the
votary of Liberty and Justice. He will be ready to exert
himself in their defense.
The Compulsory school bill is aimed particularly at a
certain established religion, yet this Masonic guide declares
that "Man never had the right to usurp the unexercised pre
rogative of God and condemn and punish another for his
belief." The bill is intended to strike at the Catholics, yet
Masonic precept . declares :
Horn in a Protestant land, we are of that faith. If we had opened
our eyes to the light under the shadows of St. Peter's at Rome,
we should have been devout Catholics; born In the Jewish quar
ters of Aleppo, we should have condemned Christ as an lmposter;
In Constantinople, we should have cried ''Allah 11 Allah," God Is
great and Mahomet Is his prophet'." Birth, place, and education
give us our faith.
The Compulsory School Bill is an attempt to regulate
other peoples belief and to eradicate all religious instruc
tion from primary education. The child must be taught the
three R's but he must not be taught anything about God,
yet this is a doctrine at variance with the precepts of Mas
onry as set forth in this book, which declares :
Every man's opinions are his own private property, and tho
rights of all men to maintain each his own are perfectly equal.
The Mason's creed holds that no man has any right In any way to
Interfere with the religious belief ot another. It holds that each man
is absolutely sovereign as to his own bollef, and that belief is a mat
ter absolutely foreign to all who do not entertain the same belief;
and opening wide Itu portals, It Invites to enter there and
live In peace and harmony, the Protestant, the Catholic, Jho Jew, the
Moslem; every man who will lead a truly virtuous nnd moral life, love
his brethren, minister to th slclc and distressed, and believe In the
Ouo, All-Powerful, All-Wise, cvory-where-Presout God, Architect.
Creator and Preserver of nil things, by whoso universal law of
Harmony ever rolls on this universe
In this Masonic bible we are informed that "Masonry is
engaged in her crusade against ignorance, intolerance,
fanaticism, superstition, uncharitableness and error: the
Mason does not dogmatise, but entertaining and uttering his
own convictions, he leaves every one else free to do the
same."
Is this what P. S. Malcolm nnd those who advertise
themselves as Masons are doing in fathering the Ku Klux
Klan Compulsory School Bill which has precipitated more
dissension, division and strife; than any measure in Oregon's
history, a measure that has aroused all the latent fires of
fanaticism and bigotry among the ignorant and supersti
tious and unfurled to tho four breezes the black flag of in
tolerance?
Is not Mr. Bristol right in declaring thse promoters of
religious and sectarian discord ignorant of the true princi
pals of Masonry? Though parading as Masons, are they
rot really crusaders for the Ku Klux Klan?
The Portland Telegram has recently moved into its new
building, a completely equipped modern newspaper estab
lishment, built especially for it. All of which calls attention
to the rapid strides the Telegram has made since it passed
into the possession of iU present owners in 1914. The Tele
gram has in this interval doubled in circulation and busi
ness, but what commends it more to the public than any
thing else, is the fact that alone among the Portland dailies,
1he Telegram has had the courage to denounce the Ku Klux
iU&n, to support Governor Olcott in his attack upon the klan
nd to wage a winning battlo aaginst the so-called Compul
sory School Bill in a benighted community dominated by in-
if fble government. Mor power to the Telegram.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
Stayton Brief s
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1922
PANTOMIMEBy J. H.Striel
Along State Street
It's the coal wagon instead of the waterwagon that now
interests the public.
There are some things that are better said than done
but ldvemaking isn t one of them.
It requires the use of about 36 muscles to mile, and of
97 to frown. Why work overtime.'
Some marriages are arranged in the drawing room and
disarranged m the court room.
This is the time of the year when overcoats are being
aroused from their camphorous sleep.
A married man who doesn't want to be in bad with hi3
wife is in bed before 12 o clock at night.
Everybody wants to boss somebody, and there is always
somebody who wants to boss every Dody.
When tobacco is abolished by constitutional amendment,
we wonder whether we'll have to go beyond a three-mile
limit to get a smoke or chew.
The average man would jump sky high if he came home
some evening and found his wife wearing the sort of clothes
he admires so much on the streets..
The new wife of the former Kaiser ought not to be
troubled about her husband staying out nights, when yearly
all Europe helps keep him in.
Whenever a coal wagon drives up to your house with an
American flag attached to the dashboard, you can count on
getting a full 840 pounds of coal and 1400 pounds of patriot
ism. 1
T J 7 HAT HAPPENED When
V Hheila Elliston Ref used Love
By IDAH McGLONK GIBSON
The Picture in the Rogues' Gallery
Phil was so absorbed in his own
unhappy thoughts that he paid nc
attention to my interjection, telling
him how blind ho had been.
Like all men, ho had come to the
point in his problem whore ho had
to talk to some sympathetic woman
Of course I understood that up to
date he had boon talking with Su
sanna Jones, but evidently' some
thing had happened that -had made
him think she was no longer sympa
thetic. I had only to keep still to find
out what this was.
I had a shrewd suspicion that my
brother was all the more miserable
because ho felt that ia both cases
love had betrayed him.
Susanno had made him think that
.Sheila had never loved him and now
manlike, he was almost ready to de
clare that Susanno, whom he had
thought the most unselfish devotee
of love, was not so disinterestedly
interested in him as he had been
ready to believe. Consequently he
had come to me at last.
"I did not know that any man
could bo as unhappy as I was, Kay,
and live," confessed Phil slowly, as
though ho wore confessing more to
his saner self than to mo. "I watch
cd Sheila day ufter day grow cold
or and colder and my very soul grew
weak as hers seemed to grow more
self-contained.
"Of course, vou will probably tell
me that I made the groat mistake
of talking with another woman
about my unhappincss instead of
my own wife. But what man or
woman ever takes his or her trou
ble to tho ono who is most interest
ed in itt And you-must remember
Kay, that Sue and I had gone
through many hardships togother,
''It was Coningsby Dawson, was
it not, Kay, who said: After the
war tho kinship of courage will
bo the tie that binds, stronger than
the ties of blood.'
"Sue had been good pal. Her
courage was unassailable. She was
most sympathetic. And honestly.
Kav, I did not realize where our
intimacy was leading us until one
day when I visited her and told
her how unhappy I was.
'I owned that it seemed to me
that I had made the mistake of my
life in marrying Sheila without as
certaining beyond any doubt that
she loved me.
"Sueanne was verr svmpathetie
and told me that the first thing a
brave man did when he found out
he had made a mistake was to cor
rect it.
"I was all at sea, Kay. More than
anything else in the world I want
ed to make Sheila hippy and I knew
he was not. - It seemed to me that
she was growing more and more
unhappy every day. It seemed to
me that she was withdrawing her
self from even you at times.
Po you remember the day I met
you beside the jailt I wonder if 1
looked queerly to you. It seemed a
stroke of rate that I should meet
you there.
"That morning Susanne had told
me that a reporter from a disrep
utuble blackmailing sheet had come
to her and asked her about Sheila.
" 'I told him, Phil,' she nserted,
'that I did not know your .fe, had
never known her, and that I had
no way of knowing whether she was
the girl of the same name who had
been arretted some years before
on complaint of my father.
" 'I did this for you, Phil, be
cause I want to save you every pos
sible annoyance. I should have told
you nothing about it, if that re
porter had not said that H would
be comparatively easy for him to
dig up the photographs of Sheila ia
tho rogues' gallery and compare
them with recent pictures of her.
'''He hinted it would make, a
smashing story to place . those pic
tures, one on each side of that
which was taken of Sheila as a
bride.'
"I was almost insane, Kay, with
apprehension. As soon as I could I
broke away from Sue and rushed
immediately over to the jail and
asked to look at the pictures in the
rognos' gallery, pretending that I
was looking for someone else.
"You can imagine how I felt
when at last, among those crime
stained faces, I found the lovely
counterfeit of my wifet
Fortunately the officer who wai
showing them to me, and whom 1
had known on the otEer s!do, was
called to the door for a moment.
"God forgive me, I became then
and there a thief. I quickly ab
stracted tho two small photos and
put them in my pocket.
"When tho officer returned' I pre
tended to identify another woman
a woman that I had an .idea Was
an international spy and left the
plaee. '
"On the street, just outside the
door, I met you. For oue wUd mo
ment I thought you wore going into
the building on the eame eirand, and
then I realized that probably nei
ther you nor Sheila would ever
think of that part of poor Sheila's
martyrdom."
"I was going there, Phil, for those
pictures when I met you. Someone
had written Sheila an ahnonymous
letter and she had gone nearly in
sane with fear. I went there to con
sult with a detective. Tried to get
him to say that he would remove,
the pictures, but, of course, he
would not. A few days later he told
me that when he went to find the'
pictures they were gone. I, of course
thought that he had destroyed them
but wanted to make me think that
he had not."'
"Probably that reporter wrote to
Sheila," remarked Thil.
I looked at him in utter 'amaze
ment. Was my brother more dumb
more gullible than most meat
Monday Susartne'a Lovrmaking.
The Hallowe'en party given by
the Rebekah lodge thla week was
an enjoyable affair. The commu
te In charge, Mrs. B. A. Schaefer,
Miss Ella Williams and Mrs. A. S.
Paneoast spared no efforts to
make the affair a success. Huge
baskets of cat-tails and pampas
grass were used about the rooms,
as were autumn leaves and cle
matis. While the usual black cats
and pumpkins were much in evi
dence. About midnight sand
wiches, cakes, Ices and punch
were served, and after a vote of
thanks to the committee for such
a delightful time the company dis-
hTiHed.
Jack Richards and wife return
ed this week from a two weeks
hunting and fishing trip in Lake
county. They made the trip of
about 750 miles In their car and
wcrfl accompanied by John Welling
and wife and Andrew Lambrecht
of Portland.
Laurence and Joe Pietrok are
en route to Los Angeles In their
automobile.
Mrs. J. M. Ringo and daughter,
Lou-Jane, of Lebanon visited this
week with Stayton friends.
Frank Pleser and wife expect t
leave soon for Salem to reside. The
Pieser farm has been rented to
Matt Ditter.
. Miss Mary Tate and Norval
Fisher who are attending 0. A. C.
visited Sunday with home folks.
J. R. Gardner and wife are vis
iting friends at Baker City, where
they formerly resided.
The Amity football team failed
to nut In an appearance today ow
ing to the weather and so the
game on the local grounds did not
take place. '
William and Louis Sestak. well
known here have disposed of their
meat market at Saco, Mont., which
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Miss Cora cooper auu tu.B
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H.'e. Hope returned Thursday
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Miss Siena nun" - 7 f
on this week at a Salem hospltaf.
John and Vincent men .
Nick Highberger left Wednesday
by auto for Los Angeles. They ex
pect to make the trip in five days.
The "Marriage of the Midgets
is to be given at the high school
auditorium on Tuesday evening.
Seventy-five of the children from
the lower grads are to take part.
Uriah Silha'.ey has been quite
ill with tonsilitis.
The head officers of the San
tiam woolen mills are to be moved
here. G. L. Ralph, the bead book
keeper, is already here and his
family will move from Portland as
soon as suitable living quarters
t, ,n,i,,roH Thlfl concern 1b
;au o.
rapidly growing, about 120 people
now being empioyea ana mo ins
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