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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 21, 1925
CapitaljLJournal
8ilem. Orel on
Aa Independent Newapaper Published aver? erenlng except Sunday
Telephone 81; DCWl el
CliOUUE PUTNAM, Editor and Publiaher
Destructive of Democracy
Walter Pierce never shed so many tears over the sad fate
in prospect for his white faced calves as the Portland Journal
and other organs of the uplift are weeping over the mournful
destiny of 18 year old children they would rescue from honest
toil and useful occupation and free from cruel exploitation by
hard-headed parents and rapacious employers, by placing
them under the sheltering wing of the congressional mother
to supervise their welfare, with an army of snoopers at tax
payers expense.
Daily we are regaled with pitiful pleas in behalf of youth,
bo they may have more leisure for jazz, movies and joyriding.
To be sure we have our own child-labor laws and so do most
other states but it is the fashionable way to surrender our
few remaining personal and state rights to a centralized
bureaucracy to administer at long range with red tape
regulations. It is part and parcel of the uplift system of
minding other peoples business and regulating other peoples
affairs.
Of all the paternalistic measures ever submitted to the
legislatures this so-called child labor law is the most vicious
because under the pretense of altruism, it will contribute
materially to the destruction of the ideals the Constitution
was drafted to perpetuate and to the establishment of the
socialistic state. It insures insolent, prcmptory and auto
cratic interference with inherent rights. A vote for it is
admission that we are no longer capable of self-government
out like subject peoples, leave our personal affairs to be run
in accordance with the dictates of a centralized state.
"Free government rests upon local self-government, and
every known form of despotism, whether the despot be an
individual, a class, a group or a majority, takes its rise in
denying or restricting local self-government. There are many
and subtle ways of bringing about this denial or restriction,'
lays Nicholas Murray Butler, and one of the surest of these
ways to establish this despotism, is by giving congress "the
power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons
under 18 years of ago."
In a recent senate debate Senator Bruce, of Maryland,
said that the child labor amendment was the real test of a
Democrat, and that any one who favored such an abrogation
of personal and state rights opposed every principle the
Democratic jmrty was created to maintain. He might have
gone further and made it, which it is, the real test of a
democrat, spelled with a small d, for it is destructive of
democracy.
' The Hunting Graft
One of the paternalistic grafts that congress might profit
ably cut out, is that of employing professional hunters to
shoot wild animals, in a nation of hunters, where over a
million sportsmen buy hunting licenses annually. For three
centuries Americans conquered Indians and wilderness and
did their own hunting, but now, when game of all kinds is
becoming scarce, it is necessary for the federal government
to come to the rescue.
- The hunting is done under the bureau of Biological Survey
ar.:l the animals specifically mentioned to chase, catch and
destroy are "mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, bolt-cats, prairie
dogs, gophers, ground squirrels and jack rabbits."
The fewer animals there are left, of course the more money
it takes to catch them. In 101.1 the appropriation was only
$13,000. In 191G it was $280,000. In 1910, it was $:!!)5,000.
In 1921 it was $-l.rtO,000. In 1921 it was $508,000. This year
it is $533,000. That is the way with all public expenditures
they mount yearly, once established.
Pioneers who settled the country, did their own hunting
and exterminated their own squirrels and prairie dogs and
other "varmint," and received no bounty, either. And there
were a hundred times as many. Now, in these days of help
less paternalism, it is necessary for the government to do
it for them and 250 tax-eaters are on the job, while the
slates and counties put up millions in bonuses for unofficial
hunters in the form of bounties.
The absurd part of the proceedure is that while the gov
ernment is exterminating animals in some sections, it is ex
pending huge sums of money in creating game preserves in
other regions, and rearing game for hunters to shoot
thus by its operations saving ranchers the trouble of
exterminating tests and at the same time furnishing sport
for hunters taking care of both peoples business and
their pleasure.
Portli.iul. .!,ln. 21 Rcrommcn-
Ulon of 1 Hi k Sinllh fur ttio i,.
on or roth:ill roach m the Inl-K-rslty
if un-i;nn. w.li hm.le l,y
the Orcon iilunml m.nrmk.ri at
a nuMMint: h, i-p h,Rt nkht.
Vlrtt K.trl. ,ltrt'.-tur of uthlt-tlr
nt tin- Tnlvi-i sity of on-con mot
wltli the iiltiiiitii nn.l ii.l:iln.-l
why he ami i.th.r uffnuW at Ore
gon fnorc'l Smith.
There actimil tu i. ft,,nie oppo
alllon from mnor.il ,.f the younej
rr members of the titumnt. ttho
were of the opinion (lint Smith, lie-
c-iiuse he liiixn t lu-cn cil.irllliiK foot
lull for anine time mti:ht imt hi.
competent to the present d.iy atyle
"i ioo;,) Ut. They wouhl h iv pre
ferred a man like ' Slip" W.idiian.
me m. Miirye eoai-h.
Other memherii of the alumni
aera of a different ophi on. hr
iver, and thera waa rotmlilerahle
Jlacuftelcn. Karl aajiured tlloae
pretiint that Smith, who la a atio
i-emiful lawyer In Kiutrnr. koiiM
:ri:itlly atep aaldo at any time thM
i man fitted In avery way to act
: roacn mould ba found.
mnd-
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ether
Thm - Protective Commutes of
'he American linker AMiicintlon
w hich atudles our crime It re pre
.venu national financial Iom, re
ports thit the total amount In for
geries in 19 will b about $1.
000,000. The commit! estimate
that Ihe total crime bl!l of the na
tion will be about aa Innre ti
national budget which la iound
J,6QMi)O,990. 1
U .iMiinKUui. Jin. ?! - - Without
(l)si-usioii . ii rtvmd vote the
itemte tmliy iii-i'eplcd ;in m
inoiit to Hie li,tv:il lull retju
I'liwUlont lMliiti;e to call in
.11 inn rontYrciH'p.
Thy .-wnfiiilttHMit. oflYtt'd hy Sen
it. r Km,-, (li tnot-iat, t'nh. v:!i mv
rei'U.l wttlx ut cli.lei-tloM by Chair
m.m II. ile of the naval cmii m Ittoo
in pIuiko of the hill.
It has Ikmmi Itnllr.-tleri quite re
ently in ndmimsi ration hcaihiunr
em that 'rrhh nt CoolM;e did
hot consider the time rhm f..r
HiK-h a cniifi tvnce and nenutor had
Ih'ch -.K'-ted to i)'e the Klnj;
aiiu'ndmeni na untimely.
They made no rxplan.-tiUm of
thvlr failure to do so nor w;iw any
1 Kht thrown on the development
from ihe White House or et.ite department.
ENGLISH GIRLS GET
AMERICAN HABITS
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In Knelleli ntil...r.iti h.....
quired aoim-thlnr. of the Indep.-cil-
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leaa and leaa addicted to meanlnx
laaa conventionality, according to
MlM l'hoehe Sheayyn, director rf
women 'a at ml Ira at Manchester
unlreralty. Thla frowth of an In
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during her II yeara at Manchaa-
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A Modern Marriage
f An Absorbing Novel .
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON jf
The Woninn and lle lint
"Landy! Mlitah Star mount
cvehbady who cumo along aa' me
ques Lions. Kven a woman who
seen the sweepln the stepd asked
mo if 1'tl seen her hat Ain't that
sHly wld o many people walktn'
by to aa me If I'd seen her hat.
I done tol' her I wasn't a-thlnkin'
of hats when my young m us trews
waa a-dylu' at the horspital.
"An what you think, aliatah
Starmount, when I tol' her 1
waun't thinkln' about no hats, the
jea sat down on the stepa qulck
hko and she savs: 'la Miss Leonard
aick enough to die?
"She's Jea aa good as duld now,"
I tolls her right back.
"She didn't say a word for a
minute she was a-coughln' so
he couldn't and then she got up
and walked off slow-like a-&uylti',
to herself, 'I wish 1 could find my
hat.'
'l tells you Miatah Starmount 1
felt real sorry for that girl and
after she was gone I Jea' went pro
lactin' 'round lookln for that hat.
I had Jea' give up when down In
the basement entrance In a cor
nah under the steps I sees a red
ribbon on nomethln' gray."
Starmount quickly got to his
feet. "What was t Mandy? What
did yau do with It?"
le try In" to tell yuh Mlstah
Starmount. When I picks tt up I
finds its a gray hat with a red rib
bon on It. But It waa all rutnt.
jea' plain rulnt. I knew the lady
couldn't wear It no more And I
threw It In tho dustbin with the
mornln' papers."
"Go down and get the hat, Man
dy. Perhaps, the girl will come
hack and you ran ask her If It's
hers. She might not be!ive you
if you told her that she could not
have worn it aKain."
In a few minutes Mandy came
.ip with a sodtlrn mess that unce
waa a hat. Now. however. It look
ed only like a roll of wet, mudiiy
wool with a scattered red nubou
about it.
By lucky chance he found the
trade mark inside, and wramrfng
the hat carefully in a paper he
went away after telling Mandy he
waa going to try to see if someone
could repair the h it so that if the
owner came back she could wear
it again.
"Would you know the girl again
Mandy?"
"Well, you see Midtah Starmount
I didn't look at her vwry much. I
knows she had on a red coat."
"Did she have black or blue
eyes '
"Vesuith."
"What do yju mean? She
couldn't have both black and blue
eyea, Mandy."
"Yes, she could. I'se had many
black and blue eyes."
"Oh her eyes were discolored.
You mean someone had hit her."
"Yes sir, that Jea' what I means.
Some one had whammed her In de
eyo. Tha's why I didn't look at
her much. X didn't want to ehamc
her."
"Were they both black and blue,
Mandy ?"
"No, suh. Only one."
"Whicn one, Mandy?"
"I Jes' can't persactly tell. Vlt
a minute Mlstah Starmount." Man
dy went out on the stepa. Star
mount followed with a puzzled ex
pression. There he found Mandy looking
down at some object. AfUr gaz
ing down for an Instant she wad
dled down tho steps and turning
lookup up, covering first one eye
and then tho other.
"I don't know which It was Mls
tah SiavmDunt. 1 can't peiu'.Iy
tell."
"Well, It doesn't mnke any dif
ference anyway," Starmount did
not want to act in too Interested.
At the hat store where "he went
Immediately, they informed him
that the hat was probably bought
sums time ago at their store.. "It
is a model of a year ago, which
did not sell very well and we re
duceJ it at the end of the season.
We never sent many of them out
wholesale. This year we are not
putting out thla model."
"T7ie girl i hard-up," Dick said
to himself.
"Wo did not sell that hat with
a red ribbon," said the clerk aa he
.showed where it had been put over
a gray one.
Although. Starmount did not
think much of the hat as a real
clue his lawyer "a mind made him
understand that If Rod or Kath
lyn ever came up for trial the in
cident of the hat told In Mandy's
picturesque language would be
likely to befuddle the Jury so that
I hey would not render a veidict on
circumstantial evidence alone.
Starmount drove directly to the
hospital and found the doctor com
iriff down the steps. He was very
ansry.
"You cannot go in Mr. Star
mount. I have given word not
even you are to see Miss Leonard.
"Ju3t a few momenta ago a de
tail of police came here with all
the devices for taking finger prints
and had I not been there they
would have probably gotten into
Miss Leonard's room and retarded
her chanca of recovery.
"They Insisted that her finger
prints had a bearing of immense
importance as to the murder of
Mr. I'osa and they said they must
take them and threatened me with
the law."
"Did you let them?" Starmount
asked quickly.
"I did not. I said to them, 'if
you were the prosecuting attorney
himself I should not let you go in
to my patient, and furthermore,
listen to me, while Mina Leonard's
temperature and pulse remain
where they are, no one shall see
her, no one shall talk to her, save
myself, her nurse and her hus
band." Tomorrow In the Shadow R,
BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManus
W L ltv CETTttSS tICK.A.tSO l-UT : ( CO ON : C.ET OOT -1
HAvCOE. 1 TIRED OF" rou AKltH; to &OT tEE THAT
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A New Experience for Sparky
By Billy de Beck
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