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PAGE FOUR THK UAHTAL JOUKNAL, SALEM, OKEUON FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1925. CapitalJiJournal Salem. Oregoo An Independent Newspaper Published Tery evening except Sunday Telephone 81; newi 82 CEO KG IS PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher What It Means Los Angeles dispatches convey the interesting information that Mrs. Charlie Chaplin's expectant motherhood will not protect her from California school laws and that the screen star must continue her studies nearly two years more accord ing to the board of education's edict. Presumably between periods of nursing the baby, the mother will be compelled by the official snoopers to do sums in arithmetic. All of which is a practical demonstration of how regulatory laws work out. With the laudable purpose of preventing the oxploitation of youth to the neglect of their schooling, the uplifters forced the enactment of this compulsory educational law, which gives the state power to interfere in family affairs and upset married life. It was never supiosed by the ocople th t such an absurd interpretation of the law would be made, but your reformer has a single track mind and is devoid of humor. It is the law and therefore sacred and must be enforced, or the government totters to ruin and chaos. If the child labor amendment to the federal constitution is -atified, which gives congress "the power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age" we shall have such fool interference with family control as California suffers, multiplied a thousand fold. We shall have an army of resident and traveling inspectors busying themselves all over the nation in other peoples affairs and arresting parents for permitting their husky offspring to engage in healthful and beneficial toil instead of bringing them up as loafers. Children could not help their parents out and earn their own way in life by working in the berry and hop fields, or garden; they could not do the chores about farm or home; the family wood-pile would know them no longer; even the carrying or sale of newspapers would be forbidden and apprenticeship in the trades would be barred by the congres sional mother. A host of other problems, necessitating new laws, new office-holders, new bureaucracy would follow, for the govern ment, having deprived the widow of the aid of her children, must provide her n pension to support her and provide schools for the children even though long past the age when school is beneficial. It is easy enough to assert that congress will exercise due judgment and not unduly interfere in family life but the record of congress is to the contrary. Stringent laws would ht passed and enforced by fanatics, which would make any parent, seeking to inculcate industry in his children, subject to fine and imprisonment, with constantly increasing penalties. What can be expected of congress in case of the ratifica tion of this amendment, has been demonstrated by prohibi tion. The 18th amendment merely prohibited the manu facture, .".ale, transportation or importation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. Congress proceeded to ban liquor that was not intoxicating and arbitrarily defined one half of one percent of alcohol as intoxicating, when as a matter of fact, four and even five percent of alcohol is not intoxicating. And then we have the arbitrary ruling of bureau chiefs further limiting beverages and a 555,000,000 annual expenditure of tax-payers money to tyrannically cn f -roe what was never contemplated in the amendment but arbitrarily read into law by congress. Another instance of the uplift proclivities of eomrress is shown by the Mann act, passed to stop the while slave traffic, ine lmiwrtation of young girls from Ktirono and their com mercialization for immoral purposes in city slums, mining and lumber camps. However the law is utilized princinallv to persecute those injudicious enough to pay the fare of some perfectly willilng woman on pleasure bent, from one state to another a purpose not contemplated at the time of the law's enactment. It is the way of the uplifter to get a law on the books for one purpose and then proceed to utilize it for another purpose. It is laudable enough to stop the sweat-shopping of children aim inn-- exploitation in childhood in factories, but the law would be utilized principally to meddle in family affairs and .prevent parents from working their children. It is high time that we ceased centralizini? irovermm-iit f Washington it is already breaking down from the strain of paternalism put upon it. Such matters as child labor are proper subjects for state jurisdiction ami all but four states ifwrnlif m-.. I...... .... l i .i si .... - mna imi me suDjecr. uregon cluldren are amply protected and it is not up to us to interfere in the al lairs of other states public opinion in the backward states will cure existing abuses. . The child labor amendment, put forth in the guise of 'aiiism, is me most vicious ot any or the amend ments offered for its is destructive of Hi.- ideals of .l..m,-i-.v Ihe Constitution was adopted to insure and substitutes the irannv ol a bureaucratic state. It is un-American and merits defeat. CAHNERS ELECT NEW OFFICERS I'.n-ri in 1, Jan. 9 -C, K. M Mil lln of MHlinuli iin w .1 ad .inrM fiom vhe-pi t' I dent li pi.'vihnt if Che Xurthwftt Caiincis' iiiW.it Inn at Its closing convention ssin e-itorJay afternoon. He smverd ed If. K. ivHson of i'-rtland. Olhfr ofticTrt nre : i:. K. Mil Inn, vi-prr-hi.-rit ; i ,. Mutth. w of Kverrtt, Wash . vr-pi (! en I ; C. I). 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Any word defined In Ihe text un-lcr HORIO.VTALN will teln at Ita nunilMX, rIiohii on Hie dbieriuu. ami will c it end all tho w:ty ncros to tlie rijst blick Bpaoe to Hm riKlit of tuut nmnlicr. Ilwt la, ihe word must uesln In tiro wjtiaro that coutoins Ha Idrnilfjluv num- uor, iuu esiena a lar na iito winie aiiuriii continue unlJiU-rruiJicdiy Any n-ori tWInrd under 'VIi.RTICAf.H will ahn bocin. In Hm mliUe apaeo thnt roiilalna it nuntU'r, but will extend downward aa far mt iihi wniio &ucca remaui uniiiterruiteUJy. P A Modem Marriage I An Absorbinpr Novel ; By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON f n m r i an i i i t otIcI r MjtT vmmm mg$m&m ..lNoo EiYlipiiiis 19 iM ' TfHlErBlMfPlrTlofNjEl : SOI.ITIOX OF YKSTEKDAVS ' W&4 ' "''Mi mSL vertical m Wm. 8 x tww. B I 1 I ml iMr I I I Accuse A(tM IiiterjcH-t ion Sniip.iihii'r Missouri (abbr.) I'lirliitK A'llKTPflt Ktiflvtn office (itliltr.) MlddU- SklllHCll CopHi;ht J021 GcoiK'o Matthew Adams noDxi-.v nrnriixs "Rcidney!" lludaeyl" wUUpercd Kuthlyn, "you cnould not have come here." "i'erhane not. dearest, but I could not stay away. I knew you would n't ant to he alone and 1 wanted to tell you that through all tho terrible notoriety that will come you must never doubt my lova for you." "And Itudney dear, whatever come to either of us we will bear it tousther." "No! No! You mutt not come into it at all, Kathlyo. Whatever coined must come to me alone." "I wilt not have it that way. Hut even if I wanted to, how can I help but be in it, dear? Every body knows I have accepted Elton Vom' .attentions for numlhs. Ilix body being found dc-td outside my door will point directly to my hav ing vome connection with the af fair " "An J everybody knowa that I waa Jealous." 'IVdney! They dli not necuae you of shooting him? exclaimed Kathlyn in sudden terror, "Of course not. If they had, I wouldn't be her-?. But, dearest, if they do accuse either of us I am to take the whole blame." Hodney, you are saying that b?caip you know that they will ac cue you in the morning." "Let them! I think I can easily prove my inmcence. All we have to do is to fit irk to the story." "What is the tory?" 'Why, the story 1 told to tho policeman. You heard me ring, yuu came to your door and we both found Elton Foaa murdered at fhe bottom of your sttps. I did not tell them. Kathlyn, that I put the ruii in lib pocket, nor did 1 tell them of the other gun. You hnvp It still ?" he added nulrklv. i "YtiH. Here it is." Kathlyn walk-' ed to the divan and picked up the automatic. Without looking at it, Itodaey dropped it In hta pocket "Oh. why did you pick up that tfher fiun, Uod? Your finger prints wilt be on it. The police man thought of H immediately Don't you rem ember?' "Don't worry, deav. there will be other fingor prin'.g on it an well Tho man who took it out of Foss' pocket handled it, you know ' "its. but he handlei it very carefully," Kathhn broke in. "Ueil, by fortunate chance whn the pjli'j?maii took it out of his pocket ut the elation It fell out of the handkerchief, and before he ould carefully pick it up. officious young policcn:an grabbed U aul placed U on the table. A smart lawyer could overrule any damning evidence that the finger prints on that gun might stand for. There will be toj many on It. But let's don't talk about me. Let's talk about you. Dearest, you understand, don't you, that you must not come into this at ail It would be fatal." 'I don't aee how you are goins to keep mo out of it," ehe answer ed quietly. "That will be taken ciro of some way cveu if I" "You are keeping something from me, Rodney," interrupted Kathlyn, clutching him convnl aively. "You fully expect that you will be accused of the murder." "What if I am? Don't you real ize that that is the ieat of my troubles, Kathlyn. What I hope lit he done la that a verdict w 111 he brought in. 'Shot by a fiei-fton unknown.' If that is not J nc, then they probably will intli t me." "And I have myself to blame for this. I encouraged Elton Koss." "What happened tonight here? What marie you so angry with him?" Itoriney's voice showed his jealousy had overcame for the mo ment his anxiety. "Well, you aee, RoJney, Elton made this big killing today. He had been drinking a great deal be fore he came here, lie had hardly gotten into the room before he tried to kiss me. Of course, I was very angry, for you know, dear, don't you, that X have kept my kisses for you? "Kttoo knew Hut, too, and when I pushed htm away he accused nie of it. He told me thai I waa a fool to be true to ou. that your affair with the girl who is playing the lead in your new coimdy was the talk of the tonn. I was very angry for you must know. Hodney, that I have alwpya known that you were playing as fair with me as I was with you. He waa too drunk to realize how angry I was. and he attempted to toll me that if I would go with him he would give me half of the million dollars he had made on change today. Then he adth'd that it was more than you would ever have. "I told him to get out of the house, that X never wanted to look i-.pon his face again. He answer ed that he con i n't live without me. that all day while the market had been coin ins his way. his only thought was what tho money would do for m. H? xall he wanted me so much that if necessary he would marry me." "I told him that under tho cir cumstances X could not marry him nor my other man, and he said he would tnk-) me under any circum stances if he could c?t me. "Again I refused and he became Hilary and said, 'I'll take you now! He came toward me . After s little pause Kathlyn finished with: "At last I succeeded in pushing him out the door." Tomorrow The Confession. 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