Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 14, 1925, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUlt HE CAPITAL JOUR! CapitalJournal Salem. Oregon kn Independent Newspaper Published every aventng except Sunday Telephone (1; news 1 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher On Law Making In his biennial address to the legislature, Governor Pierce, in his plea for law enforcement, said: Wo. who are the beneficiaries ot the greatest Inheritance the world bas ever known In the form ot guvernmental lnstlltutions, unequalled in their Justice since time began, today (Ind them trem bling in the balance, because there Is growing up a spirit of Indif ference to law and established authority. May there be a revival ot the spirit of reverence tor authority and law that will sweep this land from end to end, su that Oregon may be the most progressive state In all the Union: a state where law Is held sacred, enforced without favor, or repealed when found wrong. By law enforcement, the governor means of course, prohi bition enforcement for to fanatics, the Volstead act is the only law on the statute books, and for its enforcement, it is per missible to violate all other laws, including the constitutional provisions embodied in the Bill of Rights. Yet the statute books are filled with laws which are un inforcible and which no attempt is made to enforce, and the nation still survives. That is because lawmakers are often ignorant of fundamental law and under emotion or coersion or fanaticism, pass laws that are of no force or effect in practice and therefore properly ignored. Few of the obnoxious laws are ever repealed. They remain as dead letters. The witchcraft laws, the Sunday Blue Laws and numerous other laws still adorn the statute books of the older states, but are never enforced, an in heritance of the past that no one has taken the trouble to repeal. One fundamental in law making that is frequently over looked, is that any enactment that fails of its purpose, will almost certainly work backward and tend to bring about the opposite result from that desired. This is shown by laws regulating interest rales in defiance of economic law, by laws taxing mortgages, and other measures designed to penalize capital. The net result is the penalizing of the borrower, by subterfuge or other means. Another fundamental lost sight of, is that you cannot by a multiplicity of laws, prevent people from doing what they generally and usually wish to do. That is why all the laws on the books have not suppressed gambling, but only certain forms of gambling. That is why laws regulating business practice are not enforced and cannot be enforced. There arc scores of ways to acomplish the same end under the spur of profit and laws cannot be made fast enough to catch up with the expedients adopted. A still more important fundamental in law making is that excessive and inhuman penalties for slight offenses tend to increase crime and there is no surer way of destroying a criminal statue than by providing such penalties. Juries find themselves confronted by the alternative of finding an offender not guilty or sending him to jail for a long term and to pay an exorbitant fine and invariably acquit, because the penalty outrages their sense of fair play and justice. Merely because a fool law gets on the statute books, docs not make it sacred and it is the fool laws that breed the spirit of law defiance and indifference. That is the trouble vp. have too many fool laws, attempting to change human nature by legal edict, which commonsense reject, but Governor Pierce to the contrary, the nation is not therefore "trembling in the balance.'' yjAL, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1925 TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL I. Within 3. Mankind 7. Parent 8. CoavulKlru twitching ot niurk-s 10. V -- uuu 11. llMJUlljr IJ. Ik-giit to grow 14, J-kploMvc uuiae I. iJliijarugtll 20. HWiolit it, I' orric-e (abbr.) Perform 1. PiiiibliiiuU (nbbr.k 5. IVrtMhitiitf to blmiuturM. 27. I'ruiiomi its. Nw KriKlnnd (abbr.) 2. Hiding hair KmHLh on face I'tunt covt-rirur aa. 'I lie btm 3. No nme of In fcollufiulah .17. Klse 18. I'lircliiiscr 3. Toward VERTICAL 1. Pronoun 2. To Hhiirpcn 4. Mriuciiaut (itbbr.) 5. Ijarvc uatrr Jug, 7. K-o f fruit 10. Indefinite nrtlcle or ailleriivc 9. ltiiineu 11. Turf X. Dethroned 4. Nation 1ft. Oozlnir dirty unbalance 7. toomi of a wheel H. UM'h name 10. Iahc. 21. To fasten MuLe kvM dense 2V. Imd 10. A ml mi to mark 31. Iiir.Mcriih ( ii bur, 1 I.fchtrd Kl. Won. of refusal ' UO. To move HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE Tha way to solve the Croas Word Pnulo Is to fill In tha white square or the diagram with the words whirl, um Hltn tiui acouin. iuiilii( definitions. Tlie dellniiious nro numbered to correspond Willi anjr word flctlnrd in the tcrt under "HORIZO.VTAL" will beirin at Us number, alioun on tlie diaenuu, and will extend all Ilia Ma. ncros. to Ibe first bl-ick apnea to I lie right of Hint number. That Is, , m-..M lu i,w Mjiiiiro mat columns its luentujl.ie; num ber, and citeud as fur as I lie white squares continue uninterrupted!,-. Any word defined ander 'Vl:iTICAI. will also becto, In the white anaeo that roiuniiis Its number, but will citend downward As far as "ivi rviuaui luiiinerrupteuir. Ts r - lllp !! B IH Copyright JD2I George Matthew Adams A Modern Marriage An Abaorbinir Novel By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON j KATHLYN'S FAMILY Rodney Evana looked at Doctor Johnson In surprise aa he said to litnwelf, I have never seen this man.' To the physician Evans said: ou of course know, in. Johnson, of the terrible tragedy that occurred lost night. Miss Leonard has been summoned appear at the inquest at ten o'clock nd my frli-nd and I have come to take her. Of courae, it la im possible for her to go under the circumstances." 'It la Impossible, Mr. Evans, for her to go anywhere except to the ho pita I. I will not answer for her life under any other circum stances." Will you sign this then. Doc tor?" said Dick, coming; forward with a sheet of notepaper in his hand on which he had jotted down Just what the doctor had euld. Don't worry, Rod. I'll make all the necotvmry arrangements over the phone for the ambulance and; the hoflpital room." lie took out his watch. "You and I have to be going very soon. Rod, if we are to get to the in quest In true. "The Inquest must wait." The law never waits. Rod." "This la one time when it shall. snapped Evnna sternly. "Until Knthlyn Is safely in her bed at the hospital, in care of the best doc tors and nurse that can be pro cured, all the law in the world can not tako me from her." Dick saw that Rodney was craz ed by the girl's Illness and had for gotten all about the seriousness of hi position in regard to the kiltlne of Elton Fogs. "X will try to delay the inquest." Starmount said, turning to the hone. Rodney took no further interest BRINGING UP FATHER Kathlyn recognize him. Dick came back from the phone and put his hand on Roduey's shoulder. "Don't worry, old man. It wilt all come out right." But ho thought that Kathlyn's Illness was a direct act of providence. lie knew what maneuvering it would take to keep her from being indicted for the n.urder and would much rather have her abnent and let him make out his case for hinnelf with Hod ney'a help. lie was pretty sure that he could steer the questions into such channel that kathlyn would not be Mamt'd. He was nut very en thusinatic, though, over Rod's tak ing the blame f ir Kathlyn's guilt if she were guilty. Only thai he waa not sure of her guilt made him accede to Rod's request. The coroner baa promised to dlny the inquest until one o'clock; that will give us enough time fo gtt Kathiyn to the hospital," the lawyer sji i. "It does seem, Dick, as though Kathlyn should have some worn an fri-nd with her." A woman does not need any one but her husband at such i time," Dick answered, "but It I. nstoniahing how few real friends one finds ha has when he wants them." "It's queer, Dick," oaid Rod. "that a girt like Kathlyn could live five years in New York and meet hundreds of people and yet have not a single intimate woman friend. "Of counw. Kathlyn has always boon so ambitious that -he has noi cared much lor intimate friends. 'They take so much of my time,' she always has said. I think, per haps, that Lucilo Stedman, who tt'.DI m.1t'rifil n linn m n In tho matter. He was frantic andhalf a-r-. is th nniv -...-.n tui-u aKain anu again to makeis mo.e than a casual acoimint- ance of Kathlyn's in title whole city." Why don't you call her upr asked Dick. "She la now In Reno for a six months' stay preparatory to a di vorce." Rodney alghed. Ha hated to think that Kathlyn would be at the hospital with only hired peo ple to care for her. "There are many women," ha concluded, "that would offer their services, but they would do so from curiosity." At last, however, the two men decided that it would be better to depend upon the nurse than some mere acquaintance. "D you think we ha! better wire Kathlyn's sister?" Dick ask ed. 'I think we had. but I'm sure she'll not oine after the news papers get all the details of this murder. She would rather leave Kathlyn to any fate than to be mixed up with anything of this sort. "Ka'.hlyn's mother recently had row with her other daughter. with whom she was living, and came here. Kathlyn ia not very diplomatic; she sent her sister a caustic lct'e.." Where Is the mother now?" asked Starmount. 'She's somev-here In the Holy Land. She left a month ngo on trip arotind the world. My fath er v.aa on tho si me boat. Because cf our secret marrligo, Dick, Katta lyn knew that she could not keep her mother with her, and as Mna. Loonard expressed a desire to go round the world, Kathlyn made it possible for her to go." Tomorrow Tlie Strange Voice. ton'! Suffer With Piles Vnil htV ttr1 nllaa for years Pyramid Pile Suppositories ;lvo you the relief you want from the pain, itch, strain, bleeding and Torcnesa or protruding pi 1 its. Get a 9-cent box totluy at any drut; etore. fou will then know why Pyramid Is ho national t-.-rut-lo-cast reliance. A Hopeful Sign Defeat of tlie proposed child labor amendment to the federal constitution, aa forecasted by a poll of the legislators, is evidence that we have a legislature above the avcrago in intelligence and coninionsense. Usually the pleas of the sentimentalists and the pressure of the lip-lifters, stampedes me soions into enactments of lcKislation, innocent and altruistic on their face,- projected ostensibly for human wel fare, but which in operation multiply bureaucracy, increase taxation, curtail liberty and are destructive of democracy. Th; amendment, which makes children wards of congress until their 18th year, and destroys the inherent rights ot p.iums over tlieir offspring, is one of the most vicious and far reaching measures ever put forth in the republic. It ft. -old disrupt the family, the unit of our civilization, demoralize its discipline and create shiftlessness in the rising cenuidtitm. wunout accomplishing the objects sought. Kegulation of child-labor is a local and state function, not a national, and the indicated defeat of this measure all over the Union, heralds a pronounced reaction against the cen tralization of government that has proceeded at a menacing pace since the outbreak of the world war. The effect of this ien lanauon, winch will inevitably break down the over KMticu nuerai government, was aptly described by President ( oohdge m his recent message to congress, when he said : "I am rnnvlnrf.1 that thu hroad.ninR of tills fl.1,1 of activity Is d..(nm,t, l,n,h to the Ki rl ,. s, guvorni.KM.ts (flc Z , 'y ( F ",cr;,'',7 """air'''1 'h"lr 19 """" Effnloucy uf state (tovori.m.nt is Ir.,,,;,!.,.,! s, thov rollnnuUh ami ,','h. n 7 ." l"'""'n" R"v-"-'"'"" '-PonsibHUio, which ro rl h ' f My th. lr, ,m ,,p,,.( , y M,i. My conviction I, that It cm l.o t-ti i-i . M.-.i win, hcn.-flt u. I...M. ..... I........... ..., ...... . ... ' ' " ""w ni'ill' KUVtTD- BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG Rv flnnrtra IVlf'inna fSSl lii-Niii h.mvi ionium w kmr,,,' i km I.- ri I 9i m.?v:.u.i I fri J I M I Trr-'iy.1-v- i fernun w m l-how much . Exercise for Sparky? Yes, Barrels of jt By Billy de Beck U. S. SUCCESSFUL IN SPORTS DURING 19241 N York Ann ri. .r . :i. IH, i i.. ffic.'i tril civcr nh.-linln'ly to triumph on flc! Is r Intt-nnuoiiiil rl ilry thrbUKlmut :t. hut in the Oh nunc K:io.r.i at Paris, .ho ch ef CM'iit of the yrur, Vnclo Snm's u.no nonorta im.llj su.tu.ncil i.cral stunning otliiek. ymr j mnrcn of even... IS lo-lowcil. however, the .minor) i rccrs.'a encountered l.y the wearers of tits St.r ami Kli.ne vii w.e unrn a. voiomues cannot ailowlhrr b erae,l even tiy the a eeplim victories in en n o'lu. major l.lympla con.poti.ions ami tno sllrr n trlumiihs sco.r.l olli wio In (air, tennis, polo, hon rsclni nmt boxlna. A aummn m mart .miiortniit flel.ls of lii compjtltion shun. Amarica at ll.c top in i out of 14. With tha alii of Its forcer, the lnned Htstei carried off all Olym- Mo point honors of Importance in ror tna rtrst tlmt alnca If OS, ha American colors wora lowcr sd In lh coveted lss mrtrs clinm plom,!ii, when tha Cambrlrlaa' atadeat, Mucoid Abrahama, best America bent sprinters. laiiKce instance runners tar many In tho events from Metres up where the Vlnn. I. l) the marvcloiiM . pi the flil.l. will' e.l ,i 15 00 Paavo Nurml. NEW CORPORTIONS l "Ve (.r. hanl Women's Civic nun. tote; Incorporators Mra Irs.,. I.onney, Mm. Anns Yohn. Mrrt. anc lli.nn; aeocta K'OO. tenement companr. "f-'.i.-. ...corp.irnlons. W. A "...n. .M P. Ilonnetl, v. 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