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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1023
CapitaiJtJournal
Stltm, Oregon
An Independent Newipaner 1'ubllsbed rery erenlng except Sunday
Telephone 81; newt (1
GEORGES PUTNAM. Editor tod Publisher
Defeating Its Purpose
By a vote of 34 to 18 the house passed house bill No. 164,
three clays after it was introduced by Ilurlburt. It is one of
the measures sponsored by the Anti-Saloon League and
provides fines of not less than $500 AND not less than six
months imprisonment for violation of provisions of liquor
making laws. This statute makes it compulsory upon a
judge upon a plea of guilty or a conviction to inflict both
heavy fine and long term imprisonment and is therefore
likely to defeat itself.
Recently the Capital Journal pointed out that an 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 statute than
by providing such penalties. Juries find themselves con
fronted 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 penally outrages
their sense of fair play and justice.
President Coolidge recently refused to permit an amend
ment to federal prohibition laws providing both fine and
imprisonment for violations, because of its violation of the
fundamental in law making, but that does not deter the
Anti-Saloon League from seeking to impose severer penal
ties for prohibition violations than are imposed for any other
offenses, thereby helping make the law unpopular and there
fore unenforcible.
Led By a Child
A boy of 14 held an audience of 15,000 red-bedecked men
and women spellbound last night in Madison Square Garden,
New York City, while he exhorted them to bring about a
fulfillment of the plans of Nicolai Lenine, in whose memory,
the meeting had been called. He received an ovation when
he shouted "down with capitalism! Down with its system!
Up with the soviet republic !"
A boy of 14 is about the ripe age intellectually required
to lead a Bolshevist movement, having all the knowledge of
history and perspective of civilization necessary to advance
convincing arguments for its destruction.
The appeal of the Red is an appeal to ignorance, an appeal
to emotion, and communism becomes a religion to its
fanatical adherents, and it is better that a little child should
lead it than those inspired by selfish motives of loot and
power.
That 15,000 people could be held spell-bound by a child
and roused to frantic enthusiasm by his appeals, shows how
manv morons we have in the country.
Farms Can be Sold
Hy Wulls '.allman.)
Good farms priced at their true
valuo wilt soon ho lu demand, but
not for (Speculation, hh speculator;
can hardly be expected to iuve.it
in laud as long uh the.ru ia no mud
agitation from every source, tidl
inj; tliu public that the farinei
are still living on, or depend in;;
on KoverniiU'iit aid. However, tin
farmer who did uot lay anile bit
better judgment and speculate and
i;et heavily in debt during the ex
cieediiifJy properoiw yearH of I lie
World war period, can now ban. lit
their farms prosperously, and
very few of this claw of fanners
are ofterinR their farms for Hale.
Those are the farmers who saved
up their surplus money received
from the hic,h war price farm
products, to tide t hem over tin
lean years, which any careful I v
thoughtful person could not 'ail
to anticipate, an a natural rotmli
which would follow the extremely
Inch price! caused by the. trc
mcudous destruction of all kindv
of farm products, due to the shill
ing ot vast numb cm of ship loads
by the submarine warfare.
Well, some will say that thu
farmer who was so thoughtless at
to not lay by and save his Inomv
while the opportunities wero 90
unusually favorable is not dowerv
lug of much sympathy.
Now this view of the matter. 1
think, would be unjust due to the
fact that practically all the pe.
pie engaged in the varioua Indus
trie and occupations during tl
peak of world vnr prices, seem to
have been terribly intoxicated
with a mania for speculation, to
why should we c rill tine the fann
er alone. 1 am sure the farmer
far more deserving of our sympa
thy than tlnwe. of other occupa
tion who mill bad an opportune)
to quickly reimburse themselves,
due to the hij.h scale, of wage,
and the rttill higher prices mtin
tuined for nil Kinds of maniila'"
tured goods, w?me the farmer
prod uc is suddenly dropped to a
price fur below the cost of nio
duction, while the price of what
ho hail to buy, wilb Hie hirvi
priced labor and excess profit add
ed into its com; nil attended to
impoverish the laruier to such an
extent for several years during the
period of low prices for farm prod
ucts, that it was 110 wonder (In
farmer began to stagger under the
load and ask for some kind of re
lief, and while the fanner stilt In
to pay excessive prices for hid
form machinery, and all other fac
tory poods, he can new mnke good
with the Rroatlr advanced pries
paid for all farm products, nti.
many who left the farm during
the period of farm depression, are
now turning back to the soil once
more, as the surest and best way
to obtain a permanent home mil
steady employment.
I am sure I cannot ffpenk 1jo
highly of the wisdom of this etas--,
of converts, when 1 see an mr.ny
unemployed persons who left com
fortabla farm homes to aeek the
high priced jobs In the cities,
where many fall to find employ
ment and their eipenses while
Idle, eooa consume all they earned
through short periods of empl y
ment at high wages. Thla condi
tion, coupled with the high price
of farm products and the murh
brighter future outlook for the
farmer ,1s now not only encourag
ing to the present occupant of lbe
farm, but ia uiso tending to caitKu
tit hern who wero farmers until
driven from the farms on uccmir.t
of extremely unfavorable condi
tions, to reinvest again in fa nun.
Wliile, ua 1 have already staled,
we ca 11 not at present expect I l:e
speculator to neelt farm invest
ment, while so much is being a.iid
: gainst It. yet, 1 uin inclined to
think that before the close of tii
present year, that the farms no."
occupied bv good, nctivo, com unit
cal farmers, will show such g i , I
results, with good crops and h'K 1
priced products, that speculate n
will be;;in to turn to farm invent
mollis as the safest and best in
vest m -Mil for money, and will be
willing to invest in good land at
its true value. .
I shall endeavor to discuss what
mean by true values on land !u
a later article.
TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL
1. Touching
8. Small uuect cuke
10. Itevrbcrallou
12. I'ronouii
1.1. Kami fiallou, N. W. lYuuce
IfS. l'lunder
III. Setinium (all.)
17. I'artake of food
lt. Wont of rcfuMil
:iU. Tally
21. One wlio bales
't'Ai Type measurement
i!5. Naked
liO. M.llo COWH
I'H. M)ll(ai) Iwailgear
VERTICAL
3. Dull imiIii
3. Knstiare
4. Depart
5. l ii re out
6. New York (ah.)
7. A lexicographer
9. itedillled
II. A liulit e1luw
One who feharjHii rawu
14. I 'tap
1H. Article of furniture
12. I Jrml
21. Seven! li month
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HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE
The nay to solve the Cross Word Puzzle Is to fill In the while
squares of the diagram wltti the words which agree with the aruom
l.ining definitions. The definiilous uro numbered to correspond with
Ik numbers on the dlajrxin.
Any word defined la the text under "IIORIZON'TAL" will begin
nt Its number, shotm on the diagram, and will extend all the nay
mro to the firat black space lo ihr- right of Hint number. That h,
tlio word must begin In the -o.ua re that contains its Identifying- nnm
her, and extend ma far as the white squares continue uninterruptedly.
Any word defined under "VERTICAL will also begin. In the white
ftpnro tliat contains u nnmbrr, but will extend downward as far as
1 lie white space reuuuUi uuhitcrruptcUly.
A Modem Marriage
An Absorbing Novel . Y
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON j
OF YESTERDAY'S
IP" i Llow s 1
ARMOR 1 B Ail
T O 5l Ai M E
I'! A. L I C EljSJ
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To Hp 77 zi.
Copy light I2I Ceorgo Matthew Adams
FROM TIIK 1IKART
After Itlchard JsUrmount left
her, Kathlyn Kvans wept until her
heart recmed to break. At last
she pulled heruelf together and
took the advice of her nurse who
told" her that probably if uhe got
to work en her story she would
forget some of her tfrcat trouble
and Brief.
The nurse placed before her
writing board with sharpened pen
cils and plenty of paper without
being asked. In doing It Kathiyn
understood that the woman had
been interested In the conversation
she had juat heard. Kathlyn be
pan by writing down the sentence
aha had told Dick.
It was at Lu die Thome's and
Vern-jn Stedman'a wedding -that
my plan of marriage began to take
form.
I remember It as If it were yes
terday. As I emerged fifom the
church Into the blizo of sunlight
I drow a long breath of relief. I
had felt atlfled in the dim light
and close atmosphero where I had
sat through the tiresome wedding
ceremony.
I had caught the eye of the
bride as she trailed back from
the flower bede-jked altar on the
arm of the snug groom in his con
ventional morning-coat, a conven
tional smile on his somewhat va
cuous face.
My friend Lucile looked very
tired and worn and although her
lips registered a faint smile for me
ft was most fleeting. It did not
reach to her eyes which were un
utterably weary.
Vernon Stcdman, the bridge-
gioom, had a kind of expression
which reminded me of the old car
toons of the "cat which had eaten j
the canary." I grew rather risk asi
I realized that I had eeen that ex
pression of Sted man's face when
years before and when he had
walked back from hw wedding cere
mony with Corinne Ackers, a lit
Ite more than a year after.
I remembered looking about and
seeing the sly smiles on a number
of fa:es as Vernon and Lucile re
pcated the words 'Until death do
us part.' I knew that Lucile mvani
all tint she aid from her inmost
soul, but as for Vernon Stedman
it wai really a joke. lie w;ls letter
lrfeot In the words of the cere
mony. Kver s'nre the invitations had
been cut for the weeding there had
been speculation rs to how long
his Ut eat love affair would last.
Oni of his friends had said the
night before "You must give Ver
non credit fcr one thing; he al
ways conventionalizes and legal
ises his affairs Si the heart; he
always marries the girl."
I could not help thmMng as I
descended the church steps and
started down the avenue what it
farce It ail wad, and it saddened
me.
I was brought to myaelf by the
grasp of a hand on niy arm and 1
coming tj an abrupt stop I looked!
In surprise and annoyance at a
face which was directly in front of
mine. In a moment I recognized
who It was.
Sorry to be rude, Kathlyn,"
Rodney Kvans said, "but I've pa,s
cd you and repassed you twice in
the last block and tried my best
to speak to you. 1 feel that explan
ations are In order. What is the
matter with you, fair maid, on this
nunshiny af'.ernoon? Why the
look of contemptuous weariness
on your face V
I Rhcul.J think you would have
the name look on yours," I an
swered. "For you and I have J 1 1 t
come, from the marriage of Lu'ile
Tlio.no and Vernon Stedmnn."
I remcmiier that Kod did look
he had married Kdith Melville fourlltllo serious as he answered. "Yon
BRINGING UP FATHER
1 saw you and It was there that
the look of utter disgust with the
world in general was hatched, I
think. Surely you want your friend
Lucille to marry. No woman wanta
to go through life unmarried."
I tried to smile at Rodney's ban
ter but I could not answer.
"Why are you so prejudiced
against marriage, dear. I have'
been hoolnjj to make you promise
to marry mo soon."
I f,--iled. The caaualncss and un
exr.ertedriesa of Rod's remark sur
prised me.
"Am I to think that what you
Jiuit said is a real proposal, Rod
ney. rr merely one of your Jokes.
If it be real you should know that
after th marriage we have just
tien thW is certainly not an aus
picious moment to propose to me.
"Why di In't you want Lucille
to marry. S:edman, Kathlyn? He
has plenty of money and certain
ly he Li as wild about her as I am
about you, dear."
'That's Juht It, Rod, you men
;h into matrimony because you
i 'crazy about uome girl. You
are 'crazy about me this afternoon
n my new frok but you see I can't
near it all the time and If some
time you would happen to see me
in an ugly gown, perhaps you
would not bo 'crazy' over me any
more.
"l)o you realize. Rod, that Ver
non Stedman was 'crazy about
K ill t h Melville when they were mar
rled five years ago. They lived to
gether only a year. Vernon be
came 'crazy' over Corinne Ackers
and married hor before the year
had elaivsed, between the interlocu
tory and final decree. That gave
Corir.no a chance to have her
marriage annulled for at that time
Vernon was 'crazy about another '
girl. This craze, however, did not
reach the marriage ceremony for
ho promptly got over It when he
met Lucille, whom wo saw mar
ried to him this morning with all
the pomp and convention that
church and society can give. The
whole thing la an Insult to real
love. I h ite marriage Rod. I
shall never marry." I declared.
(Continued Tomorrow)
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BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG
LEGISLATURE
ENTERS UPON
FOURTH WEEK
(Continued from Page One)
I.aitrihlln. head of the Yamhill
state bank at Ynmhlll, In a let-
to Senator Zimmerman, sets
forth a suggestion that Zimmer
man and others are likely to at
tempt to get into the measure as
an amendment. It would change
the bill radically. Calling attention
lo the larg overhead expense that
would lie neeesinry for the state lo
l.'il directly with the Individual
farmers. In the way of clerical
work, eic, Mr. LaughUn suritcMs
lh.it an f.ir ad his iltt-trict is e
ceriird the aid money could bet
ter lie Rent directly lo the bank,
ukI liy the bank loaned to the farm
cis at the Mine rate that the banks
(ay the stat? for deposits of state
inoii"y, which is 2 per cent. The
Mil proMdes that the farmers pay
the stale (i per cent, so the Ini:-;h-liu
fiWicme would lop off 4 per
cent Interest. The money ho put
up wi h the banks would be secur
ed by gilt edse collateral.
A survey In the last few day
diow frost dam ago to Yamhill
and U ;isluiu;t'n county grain farm
its lo tii!1 extent of $60.000, and
It In MiURiMni by Senator Him mer
man and others that If the Lnugh
lin scheo.e U good for that part
of the ut it should be good for
all p.irts of the s'ate.
lifM.ds the farmer relief bill
there will be before the legislature
tlm week fcev-Mal Important Irri
gation bills, the proposed hydro
electric legislation, the pre-ptlm-ary
sad the pout. primary conven
tion bills, known respectively ns
the JarkAon county and the Mills
plans, the fish and game measures
which proposo to take appoint
ment of the fish and gams com
missions out of the hAnds of the
governor and place them into the
hands of the ante board of con
trol, and some others. The Cleav
er investigation should be con
cluded esrly In the week and ros
fibly a bill rmbiding the commit
tee's recommendations Introduced.
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Pavihoim For z bucks
we receipts
lo the unfortunate.
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